I had added a reply to the thread on Windows 7 RC, but after some rummaging around, I think it can't be pinned on that. I'd very much like to get some help with this, since it's going to be a fatal blow to my Clever Master Plan.

 

Basically, what happens is I can see the unRAID server and it's first level of directories (disk1, Music, etc.) from Windows box, but when I select any of those directories, the process hangs. Hard reboot of the unRAID server seemed to fix the issue... as I could traverse the directories as expected. A parity check was underway, by the way. I mapped the Movies directory to a Windows drive and started up something with Miro to see what happened. A minute into the movie, screen froze, then Miro hung and now I'm back to not being able to reach the server through Windows box. I can access the web interface, telnet to the box... just nothing from networked boxes. ps -ef is showing several instances of /usr/sbin/smbd -D running and trying to map the drive seems to cause one or two new ones each time. Parity check is still running, 64% done, no errors.

 

Normally I'd be able to fire up another box to try to connect, but everything else is strewn about in pieces at the moment... so I'm not sure if it's a problem specific to Windows 7 box or just anything trying to reach the unRAID box. Ah, running 4.5.b6.

Let's see a syslog, see my sig for the Troubleshooting wiki page for instructions in obtaining it.

 

A couple of things to test:

* do check from another station with a different OS, or different Windows version, just to confirm or reject Windows 7 relevance

* drop back to unRAID v4.3.3, which uses an older version of Samba.  If that makes a difference, then try installing later versions, until you find the newest that still works for you.  (no idea though if it is at all related to Samba or something else)

* do check from another station with a different OS, or different Windows version, just to confirm or reject Windows 7 relevance

* drop back to unRAID v4.3.3, which uses an older version of Samba.  If that makes a difference, then try installing later versions, until you find the newest that still works for you.  (no idea though if it is at all related to Samba or something else)

 

Syslog is here, but the relevant (by timestamp) portion are the five lines below:

Jul  3 12:36:09 Dingo emhttp: Spinning up all drives...
Jul  3 12:38:09 Dingo kernel: md: bug in file drivers/md/unraid.c, line 422
Jul  3 12:38:09 Dingo last message repeated 2 times
Jul  3 12:39:06 Dingo in.telnetd[1531]: connect from 192.168.1.202 (192.168.1.202)
Jul  3 12:39:22 Dingo login[1532]: ROOT LOGIN  on `pts/0' from `192.168.1.202'

 

This is after Miro died at what looked to be exactly the same spot, just over a minute into the same movie.

 

I've yet to get WinXP box back together and wife's Mac doesn't want to see the server at all. I'm working on the 4.3.3... I don't suppose it's possible to roll back to that by replacing bzimage and bzroot? Scrubbing a U3 jump drive in case that's not true, but may be a bit before these things come together.

 

Thanks again for the help!

 

I'm working on the 4.3.3... I don't suppose it's possible to roll back to that by replacing bzimage and bzroot? Scrubbing a U3 jump drive in case that's not true, but may be a bit before these things come together.

 

Thanks again for the help!

 

You can edit the syslinux.cfg file to add the ability to boot from the older bzroot and bzimage files.

 

Here is my current syslinux.cfg file.  With the extra entries I can boot into any of the older versions.  Each extra entry is three lines.  Each gives the name of the "bzroot" and "bzimage" file.   There is one naming constraint, the names must be valid under DOS, so don't use a 4 character extension, or add extra periods for readability to the names.  bzroot.433 and bzimage.433 will work fine.    The labels are what you will see in the start-up unRAID menu.  You can see I have the ability to boot up everything from 4.3.3 to the current (I did not re-name those, so my current bzroot and bzimage are actually 4.5beta6.)

 

You can add three lines, put the olde 4.3.3 version files on the flash drive as bzroot.433 and bzimage.433, leave the existing version files as they are, reboot and choose the alternate menu choice.

 

Joe L.

default menu.c32

menu title Lime Technology LLC

prompt 0

timeout 100

label unRAID OS

  kernel bzimage

  append initrd=bzroot rootdelay=10

label unRAID 4.5beta5 OS

  kernel bzimage.455

  append initrd=bzroot.455 rootdelay=10

label unRAID 4.5beta4 OS

  kernel bzimage.454

  append initrd=bzroot.454 rootdelay=10

label unRAID 4.5beta2 OS

  kernel bzimage.452

  append initrd=bzroot.452 rootdelay=10

label unRAID 4.4.2 OS

  kernel bzimage.442

  append initrd=bzroot.442 rootdelay=10

label unRAID 4.4 OS

  kernel bzimage.44

  append initrd=bzroot.44 rootdelay=10

label Old433unRaid

  kernel bzimage.433

  append initrd=bzroot.433 rootdelay=10

label Memtest86+

  kernel memtest

Thanks... that's very handy. Ideally, you don't need to use it often, but certainly worth the setup when you do, I imagine.

Jul  3 12:38:09 Dingo kernel: md: bug in file drivers/md/unraid.c, line 422

Jul  3 12:38:09 Dingo last message repeated 2 times

 

Tom will need to look at this, nothing more we can do here.  This is with v4.5-beta6.  As far as I know, you are the only one so far to see this.

Tom will need to look at this, nothing more we can do here.  This is with v4.5-beta6.  As far as I know, you are the only one so far to see this.

 

Yay?

 

Thanks for the assist. If there's anything I can do to help/expedite, let me know.

I'm not sure this is useful information, but if the server is up and I have not yet tried viewing a movie with Miro, I can still move files back and forth. Opened a large OpenOffice file this morning and made several changes before realizing it was the version stashed on the unRAID box, not the local copy I had.

 

EDIT: I got XBMC server up and it also chokes on that movie in the exact same spot. However, no other movie causes a problem that I can find.

 

EDIT2: Okay, I'm going to have to say that the movie is causing the problem. I haven't found any other file that causes the issue.