So, I just installed unRAID and have it connected via HDMI to my TV as my monitor (temporarily). I decided to run preclear from the console so I could watch progress occasionally. Well, it seems that the screen just timed out after certain amount of time and now it wont come back on. I should've used PUTTY to start the preclear, but I didn't.

 

Any recommendations for how to either get the screen on or tell what is going on with the preclear?

 

Here is what I can see from PUTTY

 

top - 00:33:20 up 16:41,  2 users,  load average: 1.52, 1.38, 1.33
Tasks:  80 total,   1 running,  79 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.2%us, 14.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 48.4%id, 35.8%wa,  0.3%hi,  1.4%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3621292k total,  1090812k used,  2530480k free,   828612k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   210604k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
20036 root      20   0 10348 8608  612 D   26  0.2   0:03.01 dd
  416 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    5  0.0  30:38.36 kswapd0
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:08.82 ksoftirqd/0
19339 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.45 kworker/1:1
    1 root      20   0   828  284  240 S    0  0.0   0:07.33 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    5 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
    7 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/u:0H
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.11 migration/0
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:24.62 rcu_sched
   11 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.30 migration/1
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:13.44 ksoftirqd/1

 

Here is ps -elc|grep preclear

root@fileserver:~# ps -elc|grep preclear
0 S     0  2997  1076 TS   19 -  1203 wait   tty1     00:00:33 preclear_disk.s
1 S     0 20074  2997 TS   19 -  1203 pipe_w tty1     00:00:00 preclear_disk.s
1 S     0 20080 20074 TS   19 -  1203 wait   tty1     00:00:00 preclear_disk.s

 

Any idea when I can assume that preclear is done? Will I have anymore prompts after starting it or will the process just stop?

I usually just hit the SHIFT key and the screen reappears....however, you're connected by HDMI so that might give different results?

 

FYI, look into SCREEN, it's a virtual terminal that allows you to reconnect to the session even if you close the terminal you are using.

I installed SCREEN per the configuration. I thought it was used by the preclear process. THat's genius. I'll be using that going forward.

 

I'm just going to wait until I don't see DD running anymore and then reboot.

Look for the result in /boot/preclear_reports

Try pulling the hdmi cable out from your tv and replug it back.  Seems like it might be a handshake issue and the tv does not want to see it.