limetech Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Download | Release Notes I guess the most interesting change is the introduction of booting into "Safe Mode". At present, all this does is cause the boot-up sequence to completely skip loading any extra packages or plugins. Over time this might change a bit, e.g., I wanted to also disable "automatic array start" in Safe Mode but I'll leave that to a later release. Note: be sure to copy 'syslinux.cfg' from the release zip to your flash to see a handy menu item for this. Other changes include: - several minor fixes in here for various drivers - moving /var/log to a tmpfs was a bit more involved turns out, so fixed that. - increased the kernel log buffer size to ensure all startup messages make to syslog Barring any 'show stopper' issue this will be the last release until 5.0 'final' - no really, no kidding, well hopefully Link to comment
tyrindor Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Cool new feature, should come in handy. Link to comment
axeman Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 in before lock. lol j.k. awesome speed of releases lately Tom! I hope moving into 6.x will be as fast! :-) Link to comment
justinkas Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Where exactly is this new "Safe Mode" Feature located? I just over wrote bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg and then rebooted the system, but I do not see this option anywhere? Thanks.... Link to comment
limetech Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 Where exactly is this new "Safe Mode" Feature located? I just over wrote bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg and then rebooted the system, but I do not see this option anywhere? Thanks.... It's an option on the boot screen (where you select unRAID OS or Memtest for example). What it does is include a "command line" parameter called "unraidsafemode", which at present causes '/etc/rc.d/rc.local' to directly invoke 'emhttp' without loading anything, including the 'go' script. Link to comment
aaronwt Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I loaded rc15a on my main unRAID and it has been fine. I'll put it on my second unRAID later tonight. Link to comment
JM2005 Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Looking Good! No problems so far. Link to comment
mrow Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Loading now. RC15 was great so I'm sure this "a" version is as well. Link to comment
kricker Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Ahh nice a safe mode. A great idea. That will come in handy. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment
Simon Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 In case it helps anyone, this is what you should now see while booting.... Link to comment
doorunrun Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I updated to rc15a and successfully booted both with and without plug-ins. I did not try the safe mode boot; however it's good to have it available! Best of luck with this release!! Link to comment
aaronwt Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 The upgrade went fine with my second unRAID. Link to comment
Dephcon Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Everything seems fine on my server. Link to comment
mr.sparkle Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Congratulations, Tom, on your sweet 15a. Link to comment
disco Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 looks good here on my microserver Link to comment
mikefallen Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great work tome booted up perfectly, i have an issue i think tho, i replaced a 1 tb disk with a 2tb disk and i selected the disk and selected rebuild the array came on line but the webui is unresponsive? since the disks are mounted I'm assuming that the rebuild is going on and the gui will become responsive once its finished? Thanks again for the work and better communication now it is much appreciated Link to comment
garycase Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Just booted and all looks well. I'll do my usual full parity check in a bit, but no reason to think it won't be just fine. The "safe mode" is a very nice feature -- hopefully won't need it, but just in case, it's nice to have it available. Link to comment
ufopinball Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Got rc15a loaded on my test rig, been running Parity Check for ~2 hours now ... speeds look good, all is well. Link to comment
disco Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great work tome booted up perfectly, i have an issue i think tho, i replaced a 1 tb disk with a 2tb disk and i selected the disk and selected rebuild the array came on line but the webui is unresponsive? since the disks are mounted I'm assuming that the rebuild is going on and the gui will become responsive once its finished? Thanks again for the work and better communication now it is much appreciated i think this is standard behavior, the webui will become responsive again once the data begins rebuilding. Link to comment
limetech Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great work tome booted up perfectly, i have an issue i think tho, i replaced a 1 tb disk with a 2tb disk and i selected the disk and selected rebuild the array came on line but the webui is unresponsive? since the disks are mounted I'm assuming that the rebuild is going on and the gui will become responsive once its finished? Thanks again for the work and better communication now it is much appreciated i think this is standard behavior, the webui will become responsive again once the data begins rebuilding. Might be a bug, I'll try to reproduce. Link to comment
mrow Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great work tome booted up perfectly, i have an issue i think tho, i replaced a 1 tb disk with a 2tb disk and i selected the disk and selected rebuild the array came on line but the webui is unresponsive? since the disks are mounted I'm assuming that the rebuild is going on and the gui will become responsive once its finished? Thanks again for the work and better communication now it is much appreciated i think this is standard behavior, the webui will become responsive again once the data begins rebuilding. Might be a bug, I'll try to reproduce. This has happened to me as well during data rebuilds in the last few RCs. Not sure why I never thought to post about it. I can see the rebuild is in progress in the unmenu interface. Usually once a few percent in to the rebuild the web gui becomes responsive. Link to comment
jinjorge Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 installed and booted fine.(no plugins) installed SF, rebooted and all looks well so far. Running a parity check. Impressive stuff Tom(Limetech). Thanks!! J Link to comment
Dougy Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 it's great that a safe mode now exits as it can be difficult to know or remember how to disable all plugins. We just need to make it clear now that it must be invoked before posting problems in the release thread. Can it be determined from the syslog if it has been invoked? It would be good if there was a clear indicator in the syslog Link to comment
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