So I got an email from my server that my plugins/containers would auto-update last night, something that has happened many many many times before - although I usually update things manually before my schedule.

In any case I discover now that my GUI is dead (even in own desktop, if I select to see "unraid web interface" I get "unable to connect"). Everything else is working, containers, vms etc. - but I cannot manage the server.

So...

1) Is there a way to reset the gui from command line? (btw this should be a ready-made command or script to handle that)

2) If my GUI cannot be (fully) reset, is there a way to safely shutdown (and restart) the server? (I mean I know how to reboot a linux machine - but I wonder if there are any other steps for unraid specifically)

Latest UNRAID 7.3.1, (usually) updated plugins/containers, boot/licensing migrated to SSD/mobo.

If you can ssh in then you can both reset the GUI and initiate a powerdown. You can then (probably more important) also collect the diagnostics to help with identifying you had the problem in the first place.

The powerdown can be initiated via the 'powerdown' command.

I do not have the command to reset the GUI to hand but you should be able to find it by googling or someone else could answer here.

You can normally also initiate a shutdown by a quick press on the power button.

I can probably go in the shell, as locally the gui doesn't work, but the limited desktop of UNRAID does work, so I can invoke the shell.

I need that gui reset command if there is one. If there isn't maybe it should finally be implemented.

Also if I fail to reset gui and need to reboot, the logs will be nuked and the issue will not be identified.
(assuming gui DOES work after reboot)

Which is why also the diagnostic script should be able to run in command line.

(anybody?)

1 hour ago, NLS said:

Which is why also the diagnostic script should be able to run in command line

It can as mentioned in the link by using the ‘diagnostics’ command.