Hey there, I've searched the forums for a solution for this to no avail, I've also exhausted every possible solution I could think of.

 

I've had an unraid box and it's working fine and I love it, I've offered to build another for a friend as I had the spare parts and I bought two unraid pro keys. I say this because I've been using unraid for years and have debugged plenty of problems.

 

The build went fine, the OS install went fine, the creation of parity went fine, but when I went to create a user share called videos, the screen simply says "share videos has been deleted"

 

I get no shares listed on the shares page, but when I look at disk 1 I do see that every share I've tried to make and failed is now a folder...

 

I've wiped the OS flash drive and started from scratch, I've tried new permissions, I've tried new config, all the drives were formatted by unraid... I'm out of ideas, please help?

I'm on 5.0.4 and I'll post my syslog asap.

Hm, the syslog says:

 

Apr 23 16:40:14 Tower emhttp: shcmd (199): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdl &> /dev/null

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (200): mkdir '/mnt/user/test'

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (201): chmod 777 '/mnt/user/test'

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (202): chown 'nobody':'users' '/mnt/user/test'

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (203): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower avahi-daemon[2230]: Files changed, reloading.

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower shfs/user: shfs_readdir: readdir_r: /mnt/disk8/. (5) Input/output error

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: generate_shares: scandir: Input/output error

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: Restart SMB...

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (204): killall -HUP smbd

Apr 23 17:58:31 Tower emhttp: shcmd (205): cp /etc/avahi/services/smb.service- /etc/avahi/services/smb.service

 

This is troubling because disk8 was previously bad and it's been replaced with a drive I know is good and it rebuilt without issue, no errors reported... I'm concerned about that port.

Normally, any folder at the top level of cache or any array drive is automatically considered a share by unRAID whether you create it as a share or not.

 

I would suspect a corrupt flash but you say you have already recreated it.

 

Are you trying to create the share on drive8?

 

A complete syslog would be better. Do you have any addons?

 

All the drives are empty so it's not trying to deal with any existing content. I just tried to create a user share and the error came up, I wasn't specifically targeting drive 8.

 

I have indeed formatted the flash to ensure nothing is wrong with it, but then again I thought I'd formatted drive 8 to ensure nothing was wrong with it too

 

I have now tried to disable user shares and copy an item directly to drive 8 and I got an error, I was however able to copy a file directly to drives 7 and 9 so I'm closer to locating the problem.

 

Thanks for helping so far! I think my plan is to remove the drive and give it a fdisk type cleaning and trying again, any other ideas?

You don't actually mention preclearing any of your drives. Are you doing preclears?

Just to check the obvious - have you enabled User shares under Settings->Shares?

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