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TL;DR My server essentially doesn't work at all, except that for my Ubuntu VM for some reason

 

I'm usually not one to post help requests, I'd rather push through and glean what I need from old threads, but I'm confused on this on where to go next, so I thought I'd get some other perspectives, plus the symptoms I'm seeing just seem bizarre, so I thought I'd share for your... enjoyment?

 

I had previously had my server have login issues (the ones where it seems to forget your password so you have to delete the file on the usb to reset it). It was happening periodically so i though maybe my flash drive was going out so I replaced it and did that whole process. Still pretty spotty, but I also had a lot of things coming up, so I was pretty busy. Recently, it's just been down and essentially unusable, which has been inconvenient but not life-altering.

 

One thing I will say about unRaid, the VM seems to work good. Through all my issues current and past, it seems to be the one reliable service that consistently starts, so i guess my Ubuntu AMP game server is still usable? (I suspect that it uses the underlying unix VM service rather than anything fancy on the unraid OS?)

 

Present Day: I finally have sat down for a bit and plugged in a monitor to see what I could see and try to troubleshoot. I did have to fix the boot order in my BIOS (so I guess I lied about the VM  working for that stretch of time) but then I was able to log in. It gets to the login in the terminal and I can use my credentials just fine, however gui mode didn't work at all, in regular or safe mode, and neither can I SSH in, which I had previously been able to. Also, I did run memtest the other night to check and it came back with no errors, which I'm actually kind of sad about, to be honest.

 

That's not the weird part though, at this point, bog standard, something is wrong, but then I start trying to check network stuff. Here's the rundown, the router can see the server, my computer via arp can see the server, but it doesn't get a ping response. From the server terminal, I cannot see anything on the network, pings all return unreachable. BUT, if I ping an internet source, such as 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 it happily sends and receives the packets.

 

Maybe this isn't weird and is actually a really common issue to troubleshoot and I'm just an idiot for not realizing what's happening, if so, please be gentle.

 

I'm gonna be out of town next week, so after these next couple days I'll be pretty slow to attempt any troubleshooting advice, but I'd appreciate any other ideas or perspectives you all can bring with your great expertise.

 

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Live troubleshooting as I type this, I realized I hadn't arp'ed from the unRaid. It returned 3 ips. One is my desktop which shows up as "Desktop-Josh.local" which seems weird, and 2 other IPs both showing up as "?". One is the router at 10.0.0.1 and the other is the ip of my phone, which I guess that my desktop and my phone are the devices I tried to reach the web interface from, so maybe that is the connection?

 

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P.S. I am aware of the elephant in the room that it could just be something wonky in the hardware and i just am gonna have to bite the bullet on mobo/cpu or something or other. If that's the only option, commiserate with me if you will.

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