Tim Timmens Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Hi, I am having problems with my server! I can view it online and I can see Tower appear on my network but when I click on it, I cannot access it. It comes up with connection failed! I cannot access it on my windows based PC either. Screen shots & log included. Any help is very welcome please. Thanks log.txt Quote Link to comment
Fireball3 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Maybe kinda offtopic but what's the point in using unRAID without having a parity disk? Quote Link to comment
Tim Timmens Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Honest reason is because I am lazy. I am due to buy a few HDDs, I will be adding a 4TB parity drive shortly. IN the mean time, how do I fix me current issue? Thanks Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Your description of your problem is unclear. Since you have posted a screenshot of the webGUI I assume the connection problem you are having is not with the webGUI. Where are you seeing this problem, Windows Explorer? Maybe post a screenshot that shows the problem. There are some troubling things in your syslog. In particular, lines like these appear several times: Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower emhttp: unclean shutdown detected\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: mdcmd (39): check CORRECT\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ...\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: write_file: error 30 opening /boot/config/super.dat\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: md: could not write superblock from /boot/config/super.dat\ This indicates that the server power was interrupted with the array started. You must stop the array before shutting it down. You should always try to use the webGUI to stop the array, and then shut it down from the webGUI. If that is not possible because the webGUI is not working for some reason, then there are other ways of getting a clean shutdown. Pressing the power switch should be the last resort. If you had a parity drive, the array would have started a correcting parity check, which would take several hours, each time it detected an unclean shutdown. As it is, you have corrupted your flash drive with the unclean shutdowns. Put it in your PC and run checkdisk on it. Also, whatever program you have used to post that syslog has added formatting characters to it. Never use that program to edit any files that unRAID uses, such as those on your flash drive. Quote Link to comment
Tim Timmens Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Your description of your problem is unclear. Since you have posted a screenshot of the webGUI I assume the connection problem you are having is not with the webGUI. Where are you seeing this problem, Windows Explorer? Maybe post a screenshot that shows the problem. There are some troubling things in your syslog. In particular, lines like these appear several times: Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower emhttp: unclean shutdown detected\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: mdcmd (39): check CORRECT\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ...\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: write_file: error 30 opening /boot/config/super.dat\ Jul 29 21:26:50 Tower kernel: md: could not write superblock from /boot/config/super.dat\ This indicates that the server power was interrupted with the array started. You must stop the array before shutting it down. You should always try to use the webGUI to stop the array, and then shut it down from the webGUI. If that is not possible because the webGUI is not working for some reason, then there are other ways of getting a clean shutdown. Pressing the power switch should be the last resort. If you had a parity drive, the array would have started a correcting parity check, which would take several hours, each time it detected an unclean shutdown. As it is, you have corrupted your flash drive with the unclean shutdowns. Put it in your PC and run checkdisk on it. Also, whatever program you have used to post that syslog has added formatting characters to it. Never use that program to edit any files that unRAID uses, such as those on your flash drive. Hi, Thanks for your input. My problem is the following: I can access the server on the webGUI, however I cannot access it using my imac or my PC. If I click on Tower on my imac, it keeps coming up connection failed even though the server in online. I will run checkdisk now. I don't know how to use it but a quick Google and I will follow the instructions. Let's hope this fixes my issue. Report back as soon as I can. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 First, I'd simply reboot the server and see if that resolves it. Second, do you have the server set up to use User accounts? ... or do you just have it set for root access (no users)? Without any user accounts access is very simple ... no login required; but if you've set up User accounts you may have a credential issue with your login. I'd delete any users you have; and also confirm that you have SMB enabled. Quote Link to comment
Tim Timmens Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 I carried out checkdisk and fixed the problem. I will be ordering a hdd for parity drive asap now. Thanks a lot for your help. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I'm sure you know this, but the parity drive has to be >= the size of your largest drive, so in your case it needs to be at least 4TB. Personally, I'd buy one of the new 6TB WD Reds ... then you won't have any restrictions on the size of drives you can later add to the server, and can also upgrade your current drives to 6TB if/when any of them fail (or if you just want the added space without using another SATA port). Quote Link to comment
umirza85 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I'm sure you know this, but the parity drive has to be >= the size of your largest drive, so in your case it needs to be at least 4TB. Personally, I'd buy one of the new 6TB WD Reds ... then you won't have any restrictions on the size of drives you can later add to the server, and can also upgrade your current drives to 6TB if/when any of them fail (or if you just want the added space without using another SATA port). I was about to do this but I kept holding off, I can have 20 (forgot the exact number) of drives in my array and my case can support them all. Recently I just picked up three 3TB WD Green's for around 100 each, the prices of 2 & 3tb drives are hitting a great value per gb pricepoint and seems like a great time to jump on them. Quote Link to comment
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