IrishFavor Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I am rather new to UnRAID, this my first post. So it may be rather long as i am not sure what information is pertinent to figure out what is causing the issue. First off i am running UnRAID 5.0 rc16c with a Pro license Mobo: ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600 (16GB) CPU: AMD Phenom x4 965 There is no parity drive, there are three 2TB, one 3TB, and one 1TB data drives. Also there is a 500GB cache drive with nothing on it. Flash drive is a Kingston Data traveler (16GB) http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/personal_business?gclid=CMCWqeT6xrkCFbFDMgod0g0ASA#dtse9h I have installed UnMenu, Simple features, plex, couch-potato, SAB, and sickbeard. None of which are configured, all drives have been precleared. Router IP: 192.168.0.2 (DHCP) Lease from 192.168.0.100-149 Desktop computer used to maintain server IP: 192.168.0.147 when the server was connecting to the network it was getting an IP of 192.168.0.160, PUTTY and web console both worked fine. transferred approx 6TB of data from the desktop to the server. during mid transfer desktop was not able to locate the share. checked to see if windows still saw it on the network by going to command prompt and typing in "net view" it saw the server listed as TOWER. Next to make sure that it was getting an IP i went to the router to check that the DHCP reservation was still there and that it showed the system online. Being that it showed everything online i tried establishing a Telnet connection. I was able to get in so i had the server reboot by typing in reboot, after that it was unable to get an IP address and i could not see it on the network. Quote Link to comment
sureguy Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Connect a keyboard and mouse to the unRAID server and see what is on the screen. Also typing reboot into the console reboots the server without unmounting the array, which could cause data loss. Sent from a phone, sorry for any typos Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 I am under the impression that the parity check only happens if you have a parity drive is that correct? its just sicking at the log in prompt, however it said it failed to download some of the plugins for plex saying it could not locate the site. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 Ok, I just tried replacing (overwriting the existing) the files for UnRAID 5.0 rc16c and the simple features on my flash drive thinking it may be a bad or corrupt file, however when i boot now all i get is a screen saying: SYSLINUX 3.72 2008-09-25 EBIOS Copyright © 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin however when i search based on this issue i find this thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=23328.0 According to Frank1940 Since this 'fixes' your flashdrive and allows it to boot properly, it can only be assumed that there are file system errors on the flashdrive and these are not present when unRAID boots the first time. Thus they are being created while unRAID is running. Now if I understand how the flashdrive is used in unRAID, it basically only writes to the flashdrive on shutdown to save certain parameter settings. (This saves the flashdrive from constant writes which would lead to its early demise.) My guess would be that you have a bad flashdrive but you are going to be testing for this. (At least, you indicated this...) You might also indicate if you are running any plug-in applications as a bad configuration on one of these could cause a problem. would a complete format and rebuild of the flash drive resolve these issues? if i do that will i loos the data that i have already added to the array? any insight is greatly appreciated. Also forgot to mention if i didn't say i had created the flash drive from a windows 8 box, i am also using to maintain the server via WEB\ PUTTY. Until the issues are taken care of however i am direct connect to it. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 First, I'd reformat your flash drive (be sure to label it UnRAID); copy the entire v5.0 distribution to it; and run "Makebootable" with admin privileges. Then see if that boots okay (it should). Then start adding your plug-ins/add-ons one-at-a-time and check after each one to confirm what's causing problems. Be sure to save your Pro.key file before formatting the flash drive (you should have it safely backed up somewhere anyway) ... and add it to the drive after you've reformatted it. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 Ok, I will try that and Post the results here. Will this compromise my data on the HDD's? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Ok, I will try that and Post the results here. Will this compromise my data on the HDD's? No. Just don't accidentally assign a data drive as parity, or click format if it's offered as an option. If you see an option to format a drive you know to already have data on it, STOP, collect a syslog, zip it up and post it here. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 Ok i just tried formatting the drive as FAT32 and unzipping UnRAID 5.0 and putting that on the root of the drive. However after i put the drive back into the server and try to boot from it. I get and error message saying: An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system. I have double checked that the drive is set to boot as priority device in BIOS, in fact i disabled all other devices. Do you think this might be a bad drive? It reads fine in windows. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Did you run makebootable? Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Ok i went back and ran "makebootable" and now i am able to boot to the drive, i logged in as root however i am still not getting an IP address as i do not see it listed under DHCP reservation. Is there a command to run on the server to force it to sync. ifconfig brings up the NIC however i do not see an IP listed. I do know about the network file in the config folder for setting static IP but i thought that was just for if you do not have DHCP running. Quote Link to comment
sureguy Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 It can't hurt to try assigning a static IP address and see if it works Sent from a phone, sorry for any typos Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Ok, i believe i made some headway. i manually started the network service by following this post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2111.0 however i could not go directly to the directory for some reason, i had to go folder by folder. ( cd /. [ls], cd etc [ls], cd rc.d)anyway after i did that and got back to root i used the reboot option then the system rebooted and i started it in safe mode. After it was started in safe mode i checked the router to see if it got an address. It did checked to see if disks were listed and they were. Now i will try and put the key back on the drive and the plugins, i will post the results here. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Ok so far so good, install of unmenu and simple features worked. however i have to type //tower to get to simple features when i type 192.168.0.104 it takes me to a different view. although when i type 192.168.0.104:8080 it takes me to unmenu. once it booted up with the key i was able to add the drives and start the array and it shows the data full on the drives. however i do not see the shares tab also when i brows for the samba shares in windows it does not show the server. Is it safe to assume that i have to recreate permissions for the array? If so how do i do so? under utils i see upgrade utilities there is an option for new config (which appears to mark the drives as new so they can be formatted i assume) then there is an option for new permissions however it says "This is a one-time action to be taken after upgrading from a pre-5.0 unRAID server release to version 5.0" so i assume its for older versions to allow ownership of files as the file structure was different. what do i need to type in to give myself permission as i started with 5.0 rc16c and reinstalled the same thing? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Disable all add-ons and see if the problem goes away. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 well i started the server and added the drives to the array before i added the addons and i didn't see the share tab and it still didnt show in my network devices in windows. what would disabling them do if it didn't show up when i didn't have them installed? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 No share tab? Remove the add-ons and post a screenshot. Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Here is a screenshot, with addons: and without: Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Check Settings->Share Settings. Leave the Disk fields blank. Quote Link to comment
Nukidwa7 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 It's very interesting to me. Quote Link to comment
drawz Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 not related to the share issue, but uhhh no parity drive? your data is unprotected. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 You won't see a Share tab unless you have shares enabled in the Settings -- is that the case? Quote Link to comment
IrishFavor Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Sorry for the long time without a response, other pressing issues demanded my time. Thank you all for your help. the issue has since been resolved. it was indeed an issue with the shares not being enabled. Quote Link to comment
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