Hello.  I have been running Unraid 4.7 for quite a while now.  I recently upgraded to 5.0rc10 and upgraded each time a new version has come out and am currently running 5.0rc12. 

 

I use NFS for sharing media on my network for Boxee Box.  BD, DVD, and TV shares which are mapped to boxee box as sources.

 

I noticed that after the upgrade to 5.0 my boxee box devices would stop automatically updating media on their hourly scans.  They would work for a while and then at some point would no longer add new media.  A boxee box power cycle will temporarily fix the problem but it comes back within two days.  While investigating I noticed that if I select the boxee box menu "Files" and browse my sources I would sometimes get a boxee box error when selecting a source to browse.  This same source would show no data when boxee box would do it's scan.  I found one other work around out side of the power cycle;  selecting a media file from that source (movie list or tv list) would actually play and then if I went back to browse the source I would get a file listing and media would be found on the next scan but it reverts back to being inaccessible after a while (1-2 days).

 

 

After experiencing this issue for a few weeks I decided to downgrade back to Unraid 4.7 to make sure this was not an issue with the 4.7 version.  After the downgrade I was able to browse sources/shares with no issues and media is automatically being found on the hourly scans.  I tested for a while and it has been working solidly as I am used to.  Last night I took the jump back to 5.0-rc12 and in less than a day I am having the same issue again.

 

So it seems that there is some difference with how the NFS shares are being handled that boxee box has difficulties with.  I would very much like to be on the 5.0 version of code since it has features that I will want to take advantage of, but this issue I am seeing with boxee box is preventing that.  I would be very grateful if someone could take a look into this and offer any suggestions outside of replacing boxee box

 

I have attached some logs from unraid and boxee.

 

In the logs below, I try to access the file source bd on boxee and get the access error screen. 

 

I see this error in the boxee syslog.

 

4/7/2013 5:31:55 PM [224858] From: (192.168.100.81) Fac:16 Sev:7 Msg >>> Apr 7 18:31:50 boxee GetDirectory - Error getting nfs://tower.brittonfamily.net/mnt/user/BD/

 

I then go to my movie listing and play 3:10 to Yuma which I know is in that share path.  The movie plays fine.  At the same time I played the movie I see this in the unraid syslog

 

Apr  7 17:32:43 Tower mountd[1739]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.100.81:1011 for /mnt/user/BD (/mnt/user/BD)

 

That is the IP for the boxee box in question.  I then go back to the file | sources screen and I can access the BD share with no issues.

 

Thanks.

unraid-syslog.zip

boxeebox-syslog.zip

I can't help you, but it looks like the issue is effecting more than yourself. There is several entries in your system log that look like this  -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=102 *(rw,insecure,anongid=100,anonuid=99,all_squash)' >>/etc/exports

 

I googled it and found several posts having the same message. It may at least start you in the right direction.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited for spelling error

I think that you may be falling foul of the stale nfs file handle problem.  Try reverting to 5.0rc10 - for me this version is much better in this respect.

I changed my exports to this and it seems to be working all day today.  I don't have anything that actually does any writing over NFS.  I tried just sync, but it seemed to cause a different issue.  I will give it a few days and report back.

 

# See exports(5) for a description.

# This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers.

# It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd.

 

#"/mnt/user/BD" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=100 *(rw,insecure,anongid=100,anonuid=99,all_squash)

"/mnt/user/BD" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=100 *(rw)

#"/mnt/user/DVD" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=101 *(rw,insecure,anongid=100,anonuid=99,all_squash)

"/mnt/user/DVD" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=101 *(rw)

#"/mnt/user/TV" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=102 *(rw,insecure,anongid=100,anonuid=99,all_squash)

"/mnt/user/TV" -async,no_subtree_check,fsid=102 *(rw)