unRAID Server Release 5.0-beta14 Available

[Electric]

I am having a problem with the web server dying.  This behaviour started when I upgraded from free to Pro; it was flawless prior to this.  When I try to restart it, it dies immediately.  This is frustrating because the web interface seems to be the primary means of managing this server.

 

Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 5.0-beta14
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: Copyright (C) 2005-2011, Lime Technology, LLC
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: Pro key detected, GUID: 0781-556B-3109-3213ECB1XXXX
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: rdevName.22 not found
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: diskFsStatus.1 not found
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas kernel: emhttp[16041]: segfault at 0 ip b74a5760 sp bfb8c370 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b742c000+15c000]

[dstroot]

It's because you named your UnRaid server "freenas".    It's confused.

[dgaschk]

I am having a problem with the web server dying.  This behaviour started when I upgraded from free to Pro; it was flawless prior to this.  When I try to restart it, it dies immediately.  This is frustrating because the web interface seems to be the primary means of managing this server.

 

Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 5.0-beta14
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: Copyright (C) 2005-2011, Lime Technology, LLC
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: Pro key detected, GUID: 0781-556B-3109-3213ECB1XXXX
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: rdevName.22 not found
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas emhttp: diskFsStatus.1 not found
Jan  7 07:43:57 freenas kernel: emhttp[16041]: segfault at 0 ip b74a5760 sp bfb8c370 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b742c000+15c000]

 

Did you run checkdisk on the flash in a PC?  Try backing up the flash and preparing a clean install. Boot in basic then replace your key and boot in pro.

[WeeboTech]

It's because you named your UnRaid server "freenas".    It's confused.

 

Confused me for a minute!

[sacretagent]

if he forgot to name his USB stick UNRAID the he would also be screwed

 

[bonzi]

Ok, so after using b14 for several weeks, I have found a few problems:

 

1) When playing movies from my unRaid on XBMC under ubuntu 10.04 I get some corruption problems. I can only assume that this has something to do with the NFS problems that others have mentioned. If I play the same videos from my windows box, there are no issues.

2) I get warning emails about hard drives being overtemp, they are not however.

3) Sometimes the drives don't seem to spin down.

4) The unRaid main page becomes inaccessible after the server has been on for long periods of time (this seems to correlate with the other problems above, these things show up once main page becomes inaccessible).

 

My hardware:

 

ASUS M4A78LT-M, Supermicro SASLP-MV8, Rosewill RC-212 (1x PCIe), 3x WDEARS 2TB, 2x Hitachi Coolspin 3TB, 2x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB, 1x 750 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200, 2x WD Blue 500GB, 1x 120GB Intel SSD.

 

The syslog is attached.

syslog-2012-01-07.txt

[skank]

Again its quiet from Tom's side..

No new versions?

I'm still on 4.7 and waiting to go to 5.?

 

Sounds like the next release is not far off, and 5.0 final soon after that.

 

The LimeTech forum has been updated to latest SMF release.  Please let me know if you see any problems.

 

Other news:

 

Next unRaid release - now that linux kernel 3.2 is released, I will integrate and post one more 5.0-beta, thereafter, 5.0-rc1, then 5.0 "final".

 

Website - after forum update and some website tweaks we will be moving from shared hosting to a VPS.  They tell me this will be "painless", we'll see.

 

Company - We are changing to a C-Corp and moving to San Diego, CA area sometime in February.  As soon as we have secured space out there I will post another announcement regarding this.  Probably the main thing anyone would care about is that once in CA, we have to start charging CA sales tax...

 

Servers - We are working with a company in So. Calif. to design a new series of servers.  These servers will all include "trayless" hard drive cages with choice of three electronic packages: "Low Power", "Standard", and "High Performance".

 

More later......

 

 

Wow big and good news

 

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[disco]

root@unraid:~# uptime

08:21:01 up 38 days, 11:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.79, 0.71, 0.70

 

14TB server using sickbeard/sabnzbd/smb streaming constantly. -beta14 is very stable here

[Auggie]

Has anyone successfully got unRAID to work with Hitachi's new 4TB drives?

 

I plugged one in as the parity drive but unRAID doesn't appear to boot, even though I get through the BIOS startup and the SASLVP card init.  But when unRAID should start displaying its boot process, I just get a blink cursor and no further action.

 

Replacing the original 3TB parity drive allows unRAID to fully boot.

 

This doesn't sound very good...

[prostuff1]

Has anyone successfully got unRAID to work with Hitachi's new 4TB drives?

 

I plugged one in as the parity drive but unRAID doesn't appear to boot, even though I get through the BIOS startup and the SASLVP card init.  But when unRAID should start displaying its boot process, I just get a blink cursor and no further action.

 

Replacing the original 3TB parity drive allows unRAID to fully boot.

 

This doesn't sound very good...

 

unRAID should not care, and I dont think it does.  If you are getting a blinking cursor then the USB is failing to init as the boot device more likely.

 

If I had to guess the USB drive is getting kicked from being the boot device in the motherboard BIOS.  make sure that after you put the new drive in that the USB drive is still the boot device.  If it is then try moving the 4TB drive to a motherboard port.

[Auggie]

unRAID should not care, and I dont think it does.  If you are getting a blinking cursor then the USB is failing to init as the boot device more likely.

 

If I had to guess the USB drive is getting kicked from being the boot device in the motherboard BIOS.  make sure that after you put the new drive in that the USB drive is still the boot device.

 

I think this is the issue.  I will boot into BIOS setup and ensure that it is not trying to boot to the "new" drive and ignore everything else.  In fact, I think this is what happened when I introduced the first 3TB drive.  Thanks for the reminder!

 

If it is then try moving the 4TB drive to a motherboard port.

 

It's already on a MOBO port; after hearing all sorts of problems with 3TB drives on SASLVP cards, I don't want to put anything larger than a 2TB until those issues have been resolved.

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UPDATE:  Yep, it was a BIOS setting.  Apparently, the mobo BIOS has a bug that always changes the "HARD DISK" setting from the unRAID flash drive to what is on SATA Port 0 (parity drive) if a brand new drive is plugged into that port.

 

After that SNAFU was corrected, unRAID has now booted, HOWEVER, it doesn't appear to show the 4TB drive in any device menu.  Rechecked connections, restarted server, but still no joy   I will next attempt to install drive into Mac to determine if drive is fully functional...

syslog-2012-01-09.txt

[Zeron]

After that SNAFU was corrected, unRAID has now booted, HOWEVER, it doesn't appear to show the 4TB drive in any device menu.  Rechecked connections, restarted server, but still no joy   I will next attempt to install drive into Mac to determine if drive is fully functional...

 

Form you log:

 

Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: reset failed, giving up

 

That seems to indicate a cable or disk issue.

[Thornwood]

Try Seting the USB as Forced FDD and it should fix this bug of chosing the newest drive.

 

Newest bios for Motherboard on mine.

[Auggie]

 

Form you log:

 

Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jan  9 13:36:27 UnRAID kernel: ata1: reset failed, giving up

 

That seems to indicate a cable or disk issue.

 

Well, that type of error could indicate a number of issues.  All I know is that that cable (power and SATA) work without issues with the 3TB drive in place.

 

That being said, of course, I will swap cables if the drive work fine in a desktop machine.

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UPDATE:  It appears I have a dud right off the bat.  And it was one of those full retail packaged drives, not a bare OEM.  I can hear it make constant whirring/clicking sounds at a periodic rate.  I was hoping Hitachi drives would have improved in quality since i swore off everything except Western Digitals many years ago (I've had hundreds of drives, from the old 5.25 inch "Winchesters," SCSI, IDE and now the latest and greatest SATA running in 24/7 servers and RAIDs, and my experience has been that nothing has beaten the reliability I have seen with WDs; of course, YMMV).

[Auggie]

Try Seting the USB as Forced FDD and it should fix this bug of chosing the newest drive.

 

Newest bios for Motherboard on mine.

 

I don't seem to have that option with my v2.67 American MegaTrends BIOS.  May search out newest version via SuperMicro's website someday...

[Electric]

 

Did you run checkdisk on the flash in a PC?  Try backing up the flash and preparing a clean install. Boot in basic then replace your key and boot in pro.

 

Do not have any peecees; have macs.  There is something called "Disk Utility" in MacOS that I think does the same thing as chkdsk.  I did that the other day and will see tonight if the web server is still crashing.

 

Naming of this box is because I used to run freenas (until Lion broke time machine) and all the cron scripts on my clients know that computer by that name.

[dgaschk]

Disk Utility should work fine.

[Electric]

No joy.  It wasn't running and when I restarted it I got this:

 

Jan 10 19:51:59 freenas emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 5.0-beta14
Jan 10 19:51:59 freenas emhttp: Copyright (C) 2005-2011, Lime Technology, LLC
Jan 10 19:51:59 freenas emhttp: Pro key detected, GUID: 0781-556B-3109-3213ECBXXXX
Jan 10 19:51:59 freenas kernel: mdcmd (35): spindown 2
Jan 10 19:52:00 freenas kernel: mdcmd (36): spindown 3
Jan 10 19:52:01 freenas emhttp: rdevName.22 not found
Jan 10 19:52:01 freenas emhttp: diskFsStatus.1 not found
Jan 10 19:52:01 freenas kernel: emhttp[17085]: segfault at 0 ip b754a760 sp bf9442b0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b74d1000+15c000]

[mejutty]

Soemthing that was mentioned that seemed to gernerate a bit of interest was the ablity to have multiple unraid server present as a single share.  Is this something that is really being looked at, going to be looked at after 5 is live provided as a plugin or never going to happen.  Just very interested in this as a feature. 

[Zeron]

Soemthing that was mentioned that seemed to gernerate a bit of interest was the ablity to have multiple unraid server present as a single share.  Is this something that is really being looked at, going to be looked at after 5 is live provided as a plugin or never going to happen.  Just very interested in this as a feature.

 

You can achieve this already if you are willing to do a little bit of work.  I have it on one of my development machines.

 

I have two unraid virtual machines - each using vt-d to access sata controllers directly.

 

I have one further VM that mounts the shares from the two unRAID vm's, combines them using a union filesystem (AUFS I think) and then shares that back via samba.

[MikeL]

That feature if ever implemented will be forever from now!

4.0 was May 2007, 4.5 December 2009, 5.0 maybe summer 2012, 5.5 should be near the end of 2014, and 6.0 maybe summer 2017? However it seems the time to get the next upgrade is taking longer, so it may be much more then 3-4 years between 5.0, and 6.0

Soemthing that was mentioned that seemed to gernerate a bit of interest was the ablity to have multiple unraid server present as a single share.  Is this something that is really being looked at, going to be looked at after 5 is live provided as a plugin or never going to happen.  Just very interested in this as a feature.

[brian89gp]

Soemthing that was mentioned that seemed to gernerate a bit of interest was the ablity to have multiple unraid server present as a single share.  Is this something that is really being looked at, going to be looked at after 5 is live provided as a plugin or never going to happen.  Just very interested in this as a feature.

 

You can achieve this already if you are willing to do a little bit of work.  I have it on one of my development machines.

 

I have two unraid virtual machines - each using vt-d to access sata controllers directly.

 

I have one further VM that mounts the shares from the two unRAID vm's, combines them using a union filesystem (AUFS I think) and then shares that back via samba.

 

How are writes handled with that setup?  What determines which unRAID server it is written to?  Are there any mirroring features in the union filesystem, such that your ultra important stuff will be mirrored between the two unRAID servers but only presented once?

 

I do like the idea a lot.  Have one unified filesystem while using more unRAID servers with fewer number of drives to keep the parity calc and rebuild time down.

[Zeron]

Soemthing that was mentioned that seemed to gernerate a bit of interest was the ablity to have multiple unraid server present as a single share.  Is this something that is really being looked at, going to be looked at after 5 is live provided as a plugin or never going to happen.  Just very interested in this as a feature.

 

You can achieve this already if you are willing to do a little bit of work.  I have it on one of my development machines.

 

I have two unraid virtual machines - each using vt-d to access sata controllers directly.

 

I have one further VM that mounts the shares from the two unRAID vm's, combines them using a union filesystem (AUFS I think) and then shares that back via samba.

 

How are writes handled with that setup?  What determines which unRAID server it is written to?  Are there any mirroring features in the union filesystem, such that your ultra important stuff will be mirrored between the two unRAID servers but only presented once?

 

I do like the idea a lot.  Have one unified filesystem while using more unRAID servers with fewer number of drives to keep the parity calc and rebuild time down.

 

I recall reading about how you can control writes in AUFS, but I was just creating a read-only share.  I write to my diskx shares directly.

[skank]

I'm about to jump to this beta for the first time

I'm coming from 4.7

I want this cause i need logitech server on it 7.7

 

One thing though

I've read that theres a new linux kernel and that a new beta will rise soon..

Should i still try this one or wait till the next one?

Will beta 15 come next week? if not i will try this one first, cause i cant wait longer than a week (no offence then)

 

 

[skank]

just upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 beta 14

everything ok

but when i want to explore (windows 7) the share i get an error?

"location is not accesible. Location can be harddrive on this pc or network. Check disk or connection to network and try again. If you still cant find it, information might be moved or deleted"

 

how do i make this work again?