I have been an unraid user for many years. Never had an issue like this. It's sort of been set it and leave it so to experience something like this I'm kinda lost as to where to start.

 

I have Unraid setup on the same network as another PC, we'll call gaming PC. I installed nordVPN on this PC and it disabled my Plex docker on Unraid. Why would that happen? I believe it was a 504 error I was receiving. I had to completely uninstall norVPN on the gaming PC and then Plex was running again. Here's the kicker... My libraries in Plex were no longer available. I had to restart the whole process of adding the libraries and having them scan everything, create thumbnails, detect credits, etc. 

 

Radarr, Sonarr and NZBGet are now giving me issues. Here is an example of what NZBGet was giving me. To be clear there were 3 of these messages. One for each directory setup in nzbget settings.

nzbget.conf(46): Invalid value for option "NzbDir" (/data/nzb): could not create directory : No such file or directory

 

Meanwhile, the arr programs are each giving me this error:

You are using docker; download client NZBGet places downloads in /data/completed/Music but this directory does not appear to exist inside the container. Review your remote path mappings and container volume settings.

 

I resolved nzbget by deleting the docker and reinstalling it. But it is not downloading to the proper directory. It's almost as if the /data folder I had before no longer exists. Which is weird because I could see it in Krusader.

 

I tried using Krusader to navigate to the folder NZBGet could possibly be downloading to but I couldn't find it. So I figured, since deleting/reinstalling NZBGet did something I should try the same with Krusader. I did and now I don't see the /data folder in root. I can now see where NZBGet is downloading to now, but not where it used to download to.

 

What do you think is happening? Does this have to do something with user permissions? Why would NordVPN be able to cause these issues on a separate PC within the same network.. or did something else happen and this event was coincidental?

 

I'm baffled. Any help with this would be appreciated.

 

Other info if it helps:

I'm currently on 6.12.11 (Updated earlier this week). 

I have all a network called proxynet (spaceinvaders) set up that the arr programs are currently on. 

Just an update on this. I've spent the day trying to figure this out and I at least got it working again. I had to go through each arr app and nzbget and make sure the paths were defined to match each other. They weren't. I'm guessing when I deleted NZBGet and reinstalled that caused the issues with the arr app error codes. Before that I'm still not sure why it all started or why Plex lost all of its libraries. Thankfully the actual videos were intact so it was just a matter of adding the libraries back in and allowing it to rescan everything. 

 

Very weird behavior and definitely a huge inconvenience but it could have been worse. If anyone sees this and can explain how installation of NordVPN on another PC in the same network could have caused this I'm all ears. Until then I'm going to chalk this up to a huge coincidence.

Hi dcuellar44!

 

I've looked at your posts with my colleague, and we can't see how the installation of the NordVPN app on a completely separate machine could cause that. Perhaps there was something else that you had done during tinkering, and then troubleshooting that might have caused and fixed the issue? From my personal experience with self-hosted things, I tend to throw everything (and the kitchen sink) at the issue to fix it.

 

Another thought: does your Unraid server rely on your gaming PC for anything network-related (such as DHCP or reverse proxy)?

On 8/6/2024 at 6:58 AM, AdamMeshnet said:

Hi dcuellar44!

 

I've looked at your posts with my colleague, and we can't see how the installation of the NordVPN app on a completely separate machine could cause that. Perhaps there was something else that you had done during tinkering, and then troubleshooting that might have caused and fixed the issue? From my personal experience with self-hosted things, I tend to throw everything (and the kitchen sink) at the issue to fix it.

 

Another thought: does your Unraid server rely on your gaming PC for anything network-related (such as DHCP or reverse proxy)?

Thanks for your response. The only other thing I can think of is that I have one drive in my array that I had removed recently to get RMA’ed. 
 

My unraid server does not rely on the gaming PC. This all seems very weird.