Ok,

Long story short: Been messing around with setting up a vpn client for my xp vb to tunnel through. First attempt was with openvpn plugin for unraid. This did not pan out due to (what I assume) was my vpn provider's set up and my general shortage of linux knowlege. Second attempt was to just install openvpn gui within the xp vb (since that was all I wanted to tunnel anyways). This seemed to work so so until it started crashing the vb guest additions which caused all kinds of vulgarity.

 

So now I am in damage control mode and I reboot the unraid server only to have it not properly boot. (ie, no unmenu, basic menu, telnet, ssh, phpvb, smb, nothing) Broke out the cable and hooked her into a tv and low and behold, it was hanging on the openvpn client plugin. Ok, simple enough, removed the plg and the reference in the go script, rebooted, now I am back in and *knock on wood* back to normal.

 

So enough with the back story...

1. Mind you, it has been a while since I have even hooked her up to the tv, but I could of sworn after a kosher boot, it ends the boot sequence with the happy beeps and a prompt. There are no beeps (which is the signal for the successful execution of the boot scripts, right?) and no prompt. This last lines on screen pretain to the successful install of the vb guest additions (which is also last on my go script) and no prompt. This is not normal, correct?

2. Went right to the sys log and the last entry is starting unmenu server. Now, mind you, I am still a little green here, but shouldn't the syslog mirror what I see flashing across the screen while she boots? I am missing something here? I thought it was odd that there is no mention to logging into phpvb nor the starting of the vm (which appears to be running just like before the vpn experiment)

3. Most importantly, Happy name your computer day. My unraid server is named Marlene.

 

Sorry to attach the whole syslog, I was not really sure which part is relevant.

 

 

Thank you.

syslog-2012-11-20.txt

Shutdown and remove all add-ons from the flash. Then reboot.

Thanks!

 

That has got me back to square one at least.

 

I assume the next step is to individually start adding things back to find the culprit? My money its virtualbox, but we will see.

 

Thanks again for the help bud.

 

 

ps. sorry for the late reply, whole bloody family passed the flu around and the file server has been on back burner.

ok, indeed, it was vb that was the culprit. Got the flash to vanilla, upgraded to RC8, upgraded vb, and smoooooth sailing.

 

You sig should come included with the unraid files... sure did help out.

 

One last thing though, whats the deal with the discrepancies between what the syslog shows and the screen shows during boot?