tower-diagnostics-20260403-1718.zip

I have assigned a new folder "Logging" for the syslog and attached a new diagnostics. Any further ideas?

7 minutes ago, skel2raw said:

I have assigned a new folder "Logging" for the syslog

Is syslog appearing there?

Nope, still empty

Syslog is also empty in the diags, reboot in safe mode and post new ones.

Unfortunately I cannot even boot in safe mode. Gui shows it is stopping the array and shutting down but nothing further happens and the system hangs. Ultimately I have to power off and power on the system again for Unraid to boot up

I have connected the server to a monitor and selected boot into safe mode with GUI without plugins. But during the boot up it hangs at some point and does not boot into Unraid.

If the server is not even booting now, it's a different (or more serious) issue. See if it boots with a new flash drive using a stock install; no key needed.

It is booting in normal mode, just not in safe mode

That doesn't make much sense, but post new diags from normal mode then.

tower-diagnostics-20260403-2027.zip

here you go

Syslog is still empty; there may be an issue with the flash drive or the config. Try recreating the flash drive, first backup the current one, then recreate it using the USB tool, confirm the flash drive boots with the stock install and the syslog exists, and if yes, restore only the /config folder from the backup overwriting any existing files and see if it remains working.

Done. So with a stock USB I have logs, but after I copy the old config folder there is again no syslog. Maybe the best thing is to do a fresh install. What's the best solution to backup my configurations incl. dockers? Reconfiguring everything from the beginning is going to be a lot of work.

Your drive assigments are config/super.dat and config/pools folder.

Your docker templates are config/plugins/dockerMan/templates-user.

Thanks! So I finally made a fresh install and now I have no crashes anymore.

However one issue: Though I copied the templates-user folder and the templates actually do contain all settings, the dockers have to be configured manually again to run. The settings in the templates somehow are not working. Any ideas why this happens?

Are you reinstalling using the Previous Apps feature on the Apps page?

On 5/17/2026 at 3:34 PM, skel2raw said:

configured manually again to run.

Note that when you do this you are overwriting the template. Then if you try to use Previous Apps, it will use the new template you created.

1 hour ago, trurl said:

Are you reinstalling using the Previous Apps feature on the Apps page?

Yes

1 hour ago, trurl said:

Note that when you do this you are overwriting the template. Then if you try to use Previous Apps, it will use the new template you created.

I know, but even though I placed the old templates into the folder it wouldn't install the old configs.

Bottomline is I ended up setting my entire server up from scratch. At least now I do not have any errors and crashes anymore. I guess over time some updates just messed up my unraid configuration.