Hello all,

 

I followed the instructions to upgrade my parity drives, and everything was working fine. However, after the second parity was completed and I rebooted, I noticed that the array would not start; it just hangs on the "starting" screen. I tried safe boot, and everything worked fine there. 

 

When attempting to obtain diagnostics during normal boot, the system hangs again. I ran the diagnostic terminal command and checked the USB drive, but I couldn’t open the diagnostic file that I copied. 

 

I am attaching the diagnostic file from safe boot, along with the current one and a syslog file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

unraid-diagnostics-20250219-0447.zip unraid-diagnostics-20250219-0535.zip unraid-syslog-20250219-1021.zip

If Safe boot works and normal mode does not then it is almost certainly one of your plugins that is causing the problem. 

 

Which one I am not sure but I notice you have a version of Mover Tuning installed that is is incompatible with Unraid 7.0.0 so at least that needs fixing although I do not think it would cause your issue.

 

To investigate you can disable any plugin by renaming its .plg file to have a different file extension and rebooting.  Reverse the rename and reboot to get it enabled again.

Dumb question.  How do I access the plugins in Safemode to rename the .plg file?

You could use the GUI Terminal.  From there, you could  use the Command line or the Linux Midnight Commander (  mc  on the CLI)  File Manager.  Since you are on version 7.0, I would think that the built-in Dynamix File Explorer would be available. 

Thanks, everyone.  It looks like it was the ZFS Unraid 6 plugin.  Once I removed that, everything seemed to work normally.