I think I might have backed myself into a corner here  Sorry for being long winded, but I thought it important to show what happened, what I did and how I ended up where I currently am.

 

I'm setting up a new unraid server (trial key for now) in addition to my existing unraid server. It's an older AsRock H270m itx board with two Intel NICs.

 

1. After a few reboots, it suddenly didn't get an IP-address anymore (which was dynamic but setup in router to hand out the same every time)

2. After reading posts I deleted network.cfg and network-rules.cfg to get it to refresh. No dice.

3. Then I rebooted into GUI mode to access unraid and modify network settings through GUI. Changed eth0 IP to static and disabled eth1 (port down) and removed it from br0. Rebooted - still no dice.

 

At this point I was starting to think that NIC might be faulty, so I unplugged power from all drives and booted on a Tails thumb drive to see if I could get access at all. Worked like a charm on both NICs.

 

4. Started from scratch. Identified LAN1 (eth0) port and rebooted in GUI to ensure that eth0 was the for the right NIC (matched the MAC address) and double checked that LAN2 (eth1) was disabled (prot down) and removed from br0. Reboot into GUI. Started array from GUI (still by console access). So far, so good.

 

Then tried to access WebGUI. Nothing. But I could see the shares were presented and I could access them from my Mac. Ok, figured something was hogging the port for web access. More reading on forum revealed that sometimes, WebGUI is not accessible by IP address but if .local address is used, it works. Tried that and lo and behold, that worked. I could now login to the WebGUI from my Mac.

 

Further reading reveals that one way of fixing this is to delete the ident.cfg file and rebooting as this has to do with SSL somehow getting borked.

 

But - at this point, I'd like to know if this is the right course of action or if there is something else I should do or try first.

 

If there's anyhthing related to the network settings I should go back and fix, advice on that is also welcome!

 

 

Thanks in advance for any insight and help!

 

BR

 

Notes

1. I have a backup of the flash as it is right now, but sadly I hadn't gotten arround to backing it up prior to all of this 
2. I am aware that one of my parity drives shows faulty but I haven't run a parity build yet and refrained from freeing up another disk to replace with until I have all of this sorted out (to keep focus on solving the main problem right now instead of being distracted, hehe)

 

 

hesiod-diagnostics-20240920-2020.zip

 

12 hours ago, t33j4y said:

I deleted network.cfg

Do this again to go back to default DHCP, then post new diags after boot.

13 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Do this again to go back to default DHCP, then post new diags after boot.

Didn't even get around to this :-/ 

 

I did run Parity build last night, so that's done.

 

Installed Dynamix File Plugin earlier today (before reading your answer) and set it to move some files around. Came back and the WebUI was not responding on .local either. Weirdly enough, it now responds on IP but no useable GUI:

 

Server responds to ping, but is not serving shares. Since I haven't enabled SSH, I'm just gonna have to power down and restart :-(  Will remove network.cfg before restarting

 

 

 

Rebooted after removing network.cfg. Server now responds to both IP and .local addresses.

 

Shortly after logging in (hadn't even started the array), I got this warning:

 

 

Oh bother. Flash drive is actually a Micro SD card on Kingston card reader (USB3.0)

 

Did manage to get a diagsnostic download, though.

 

I think I'm gonna try and migrate to a USB2.0 flash drive (actual thumb drive, Kingston DataTraveler)

 

Edit: Removed card reader and MicroSD and ran a disk check which found no errors. Moved the card reader to another USB port (USB2.0 this time) and seems to be well now.

 

hesiod-diagnostics-20240921-2321.zip

Edited September 21, 20241 yr by t33j4y
Update on card reader issue

12 hours ago, t33j4y said:

Edit: Removed card reader and MicroSD and ran a disk check which found no errors. Moved the card reader to another USB port (USB2.0 this time) and seems to be well now.

So it's working now?

7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

So it's working now?

It would appear so. Been running for 17 hours now, then again it had been running fine earlier on and then out of nowhere got weird as per 1st post.

Maybe the MicroSD + card reader in the particular port was the culprit all along and the port change fixed it - who knows.

 

I'll keep an eye on it and have enabled SSH so I have that way in as well.

 

Thank you for your responses and suggestions!

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by t33j4y

Hello @t33j4y!  Are you using Asrock H270m-itx/ac?  Did you get any trouble getting it to boot into Unraid?  I'm using this old board.  I cannot get past boot menu.  It stops at bzroot...ok.

On 1/16/2025 at 1:45 PM, jang430 said:

Hello @t33j4y!  Are you using Asrock H270m-itx/ac?  Did you get any trouble getting it to boot into Unraid?  I'm using this old board.  I cannot get past boot menu.  It stops at bzroot...ok.

Hi, yes this is the mobo I am using. While I had a number of issues as this thread shows, I don't remember any issues regarding booting.

 

Assuming you have ensured that you have latest BIOS - have you tried

- disabling secure boot?

- fiddling around with BIOS boot modes (CSM or UEFI) ?

- booting into GUI mode (you'll need a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected)?

- another USB stick

 

Yes, all you suggested done.  I think I know now why I cannot boot in.  Even after flashing, while running memtest, I see the old company (this is a used board that I bought) name in 1 of the info shown on memtest :-(