ratmice Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 When I went to change some settings for PLEX Media Server today (Phaze plugin) It came up as not installed and not running, as well as having default install location (the flash drive instead of my cache drive), like it was a fresh install that needed setting up and starting. I accessed the flash drive from the finder via SMB (I'm on OS X) and the flash drive shows as empty. Everything is acting as expected, however. My Plex clients can all see the PMS and UnRAID is chugging along as expected. Any idea what's going on here? I think I just probably need to restart the server and see where that gets me, but I'm in the middle of a fairly large data transfer, and prefer to wait until that's finished. While I'm waiting I thought to check with the hive mind here to see if there's something else i should do. Thanks for your inout. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Sounds like your flash is corrupt or dead. unRAID can run without until reboot as long as you don't need to save anything like plugins or config changes. Go ahead and finish the transfer then checkdisk in your pc. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Is this something that can be done on OS X? Sorry, no PC available currently. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Use Disk Utility on the Mac to repair the flash. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks. That's what I thought, but wanted to be sure. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Well, It turns out I was not able to shut down the array properly from the web GUI or via command line, so I had to pull the plug. Restarted and everything came up normally. The flash drive did not show any chkdsk errors. Not sure what happened. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Well, It turns out I was not able to shut down the array properly from the web GUI or via command line, so I had to pull the plug. Restarted and everything came up normally. The flash drive did not show any chkdsk errors. Not sure what happened. If it happens again, check your syslog. You're probably going to see a whack of "BREAD" errors in it. These problems are caused by one of two things - a bad flash drive - or a bad port. Sometimes the problem can go away if you use a USB2 port instead of a USB3 port for the flash drive. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Thanks for the tip. The flash is on a USB 2.0 slot directly on the motherboard. I'll check the syslog, if it ever happens again. I am not really a Linux person, so logs are all greek to me, but I can always get some help here. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 On my one server, I had disable the USB3 ports in order for this problem to go away (I don't use SNAP / external USB drives so it wasn't a big deal for me) Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Funny you mention that - I tried to plug in an external HD for the first time ever and then, sometime later, I noticed that emhttp had hung. I'm pretty sure my motherboard (SuperMicro X8SIL) is too old to have USB 3.0, but I've been wrong before. Quote Link to comment
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