So about 2 months ago my server was unresponsive. The GUI pages would only partially load. So I restarted it. And when I restarted it. It didn't detect any of my hard drives. Wtf. So I restarted it again and noticed the adaptec 7000 series controller card didn't boot up. Figured the card just died. And was reluctant to work on it.  I have a second server I bought from eBay a few weeks before that. It has a card in IT mode. But not knowing if it would mess up my data if I moved the other server. (I read a few horror stories. And it freaked me out.)  - unless someone here has experience with this and can offer their experience in doing that.

 

So last sat I decided what the heck and turned my server on. And the sooner controller card booted. And unraid saw the drives and it started to like normal. It did not do a parity check which was strange but I did get a bunch of emails saying rec hard drives has returned to normal operation or something. 

 

My working theory is the adaptec card got hot. (Worked for 5 months before that.) And turned off to protect it's self and the data. So when it cooled off and I turned it on. It worked. 

 

Everything has been fine since last sat. 4 days. Today I get to the house to work on it a little. Move some files around. Clear some space and all of a sudden it starts freezing for 1-3 minutes at a time roughly. My Plex is going down and coming up. And I figure it's cause I'm moving files to the array? But it's never done this before.

 

I grabbed a diagnostics file I've attached to see if any of you guys can help me. 

 

Thank you, 

-Dev

mediaxen-diagnostics-20240724-1941.zip

There's a lot of this in the logs. No idea what it is

Try booting in safe mode and/or closing any browser windows open to the GUI, only open when you need to use it then close again.

5 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Try booting in safe mode and/or closing any browser windows open to the GUI, only open when you need to use it then close again.

I read that in a few other posts on here.

 

So I do keep the main page tab open, and plex's webgui and another dockers webgui. Which for years hasn't been a problem.. but for the last year I've been using a laptop which either gets shut down or put up sleep when it's not in use. So that should be the same as closing them when they aren't in use right? 

 

And booting to safe mode I can look up how to do that.. But how is that going to help? As far as I can tell that really is just to see if it still happens with the plugins disabled. But then how would I go through and fligure out what plugin it is if that was the case? Or was there another reason to go to safe mode? 

 

-Dev

1 hour ago, DevXen said:

But then how would I go through and fligure out what plugin it is if that was the case?

By uninstalling or disabling the plugins, one or a few at a time, until you find the culprit, if safe mode helps of course.