I'm getting a constant looping of a service trying to start and failing.

It's a strange thing that came out of the blue.

I've attached the output of the syslogs, which repeats itself constantly.

Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid emhttpd: error: put_config_idx, 610: Invalid argument (22): fopen: /boot/config/shares/#012.cfg
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid emhttpd: Starting services...
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid emhttpd: shcmd (133422): /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid wsdd2[20361]: 'Terminated' signal received.
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid winbindd[20367]: [2023/12/12 11:05:10.776774,  0] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1950(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid winbindd[20364]: [2023/12/12 11:05:10.776786,  0] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1950(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid winbindd[20367]:   Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=0)
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid winbindd[20364]:   Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
Dec 12 11:05:10 Unraid wsdd2[20361]: terminating.
Dec 12 11:05:11 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Service "Unraid" (/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Dec 12 11:05:11 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Service "Unraid" (/services/smb.service) successfully established.
Dec 12 11:05:11 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Service "Unraid" (/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Dec 12 11:05:12 Unraid root: Starting Samba:  /usr/sbin/smbd -D
Dec 12 11:05:12 Unraid smbd[20564]: [2023/12/12 11:05:12.992838,  0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1741(main)
Dec 12 11:05:12 Unraid smbd[20564]:   smbd version 4.17.12 started.
Dec 12 11:05:12 Unraid smbd[20564]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
Dec 12 11:05:12 Unraid root:                  /usr/sbin/wsdd2 -d -4
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid root:                  /usr/sbin/winbindd -D
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid wsdd2[20578]: starting.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid winbindd[20579]: [2023/12/12 11:05:13.108034,  0] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd.c:1440(main)
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid winbindd[20579]:   winbindd version 4.17.12 started.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid winbindd[20579]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid winbindd[20581]: [2023/12/12 11:05:13.115473,  0] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_cache.c:3117(initialize_winbindd_cache)
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid winbindd[20581]:   initialize_winbindd_cache: clearing cache and re-creating with version number 2
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid emhttpd: shcmd (133427): /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon restart
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid root: Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: stopped
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-dnsconfd[20415]: read(): EOF
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 10.15.86.130.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.130.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20406]: avahi-daemon 0.8 exiting.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid root: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -D
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 61) and group 'avahi' (GID 214).
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: avahi-daemon 0.8 starting up.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Successfully called chroot().
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Loading service file /services/sftp-ssh.service.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Loading service file /services/smb.service.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Loading service file /services/ssh.service.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 10.10.10.130.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: New relevant interface br0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.130.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Registering new address record for 10.10.10.130 on br0.IPv4.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.130 on eth1.IPv4.
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid emhttpd: shcmd (133428): /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd restart
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid root: Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD DNS Server Configuration Daemon: stopped
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid root: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD DNS Server Configuration Daemon:  /usr/sbin/avahi-dnsconfd -D
Dec 12 11:05:13 Unraid avahi-dnsconfd[20638]: Successfully connected to Avahi daemon.
Dec 12 11:05:14 Unraid avahi-daemon[20629]: Server startup complete. Host name is Unraid.local. Local service cookie is 1081371307.
Dec 12 11:05:14 Unraid emhttpd: error: put_config_idx, 610: Invalid argument (22): fopen: /boot/config/shares/#012.cfg

 

I've also attached my diagnostics.

unraid-diagnostics-20231213-0602.zip

11 minutes ago, DavidNguyen said:

/boot/config/shares/#012.cfg

Delete this share cfg file, it's invalid, probably the # in the name

21 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Delete this share cfg file, it's invalid, probably the # in the name

No such file exists.

There is a share with no name on the webUI that cannot be deleted, can't clear the files in Krusader to delete it manually.

16 minutes ago, DavidNguyen said:

No such file exists.

post the output of:

 

ls -la /boot/config/shares

 

I suspect that the #012 mentioned earlier is actually a newline character.

9 hours ago, JorgeB said:

post the output of:

 

ls -la /boot/config/shares

 

 

total 128
drwx------  2 root root 8192 Dec 13 18:46 ./
drwx------ 11 root root 8192 Dec 13 18:47 ../
-rw-------  1 root root  463 Dec  4 18:52 appdata.cfg
-rw-------  1 root root  443 Nov 30 10:41 backup.cfg
-rw-------  1 root root  450 Dec  4 18:52 books.cfg
-rw-------  1 root root  443 Nov 30 10:41 courses.cfg
-rw-------  1 root root  463 Nov 30 10:50 domains.cfg

 

and ...etc didn't post all of my shares, but there is no #012.cfg

the ghost folder in Krusader has the subfolder '.fontconfig' filled with random cache-7 files.

Suggest you backup and recreate the flash drive, and make sure /config/shares only contain the expected share cfg files.

Solved by simply shutting down the system, plugging the disk with the random folder into a linux machine, and deleting it via command line.