June 24, 201511 yr I am running 6 stable and have 1 windows 8 vm running on it. It has 3 cores and up to 4GB of memory. Since upgrading to 6 i noticed that after a while my unraid machine would become unresponsive and i would have to manually power it down. Today i have finally narrowed it down to this happens only when the VM is running as it has yet to happen when the VM is not running. Most recently I was working on the VM until about 5pm and now at 8:30pm my machine is unresponsive. Attached is a syslog from a couple of days ago when this was happening, i thought i had managed to copy it to my flash from the command line before powering off but apparently i did not. If this syslog will not work let me know and i can try to recreate syslog.zip
June 24, 201511 yr type "diagnostics" on the command line. Attach the file that's written to the flash.
June 24, 201511 yr Author System specs are i7-3770 / 16GB RAM When i type diagnostics on the command line i get this - cp: cannot stat ‘/boot/config/*.conf’: No such file or directory I ran the diagnostics from the Tools menu and have attached that, hopefully they are the same thing storage-diagnostics-20150624-0742.zip
June 24, 201511 yr Community Expert System specs are i7-3770 / 16GB RAM When i type diagnostics on the command line i get this - cp: cannot stat ‘/boot/config/*.conf’: No such file or directory Interesting. I just tried it on my own system and did not get that error. Looking on the flash drive there is a smb-extra.conf file - I am guessing that is not present on your system. Having said that is it actually a fatal error (i.e. did you look to see if a ZIP file was created in the 'logs' folder on the flash drive). I ran the diagnostics from the Tools menu and have attached that, hopefully they are the same thing The option from the Tools menu should invoke that same script to create the zip file. Since that obviously finished OK I was wondering if the error you mentioned when invoked from the command line can be ignored.
June 24, 201511 yr Author That command did create a zip file in my logs folder so it was not a fatal error
June 25, 201511 yr Sound like your flash device was previously uncleanly unmounted, causing it to enter a read only state. What happens if you do this? touch /boot/test Similar error?
June 25, 201511 yr Author that command works fine. Im not sure how that has anything to do with the instability that my initial issue is
June 25, 201511 yr Sorry, my bad. Mistook this thread for another one I'm watching. Can you elaborate on "unresponsive"?
June 25, 201511 yr Author Once it happens i can no longer SSH into the machine, access the web interface or browse to the machine through explorer. I also am unable to access any plugins, docker containers or VMs that are running on it
June 25, 201511 yr The last diagnostics file you posted...was that collected when the system was in this unaccessible state from a local console?
June 25, 201511 yr Author no it was not it was from after having to reboot the machine after it went unresponsive
June 25, 201511 yr Ok, the next time this occurs, can you get the diagnostics from the local console? There should be good info in there after it enters this state so we can diagnose what's going on. Also, to confirm, from the local console you are able to safely shut down the system after this occurs, yes?
June 25, 201511 yr Author It has been hit or miss shutting down from the console. Maybe its the directions im using, maybe not. Is there a good guide on what to do? This is what i have been following http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Console#To_cleanly_Stop_the_array_from_the_command_line
June 26, 201511 yr Author I ran my VM until my system became unresponsive again today. Attached are diagnostics from when it was unresponsive as well as a syslog from the same time storage-diagnostics-20150626-1409.zip syslog2.zip
June 26, 201511 yr Does unRAID Main show any counts in the Error column? Disk 3 has a pending sector. See here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting#Resolving_a_Pending_Sector
June 26, 201511 yr Author It does now, however, that is new and was not there when i created the thread about my instability issues when VMs are running
June 26, 201511 yr Author No I am not running an unassigned devices plugin , I had a new drive in the machine unassigned. I have also replaced the drive with the errors
June 28, 201511 yr Author Rebuild and parity checks are both complete. Tried running the VM again and my machine became unresponsive again after a while. I forgot to grab a diagnostics report though while it was unresponsive, any other ideas on how to proceed?
June 28, 201511 yr Without a syslog from when the system became unresponsive, we don't have a way of diagnosing what is causing it.
June 29, 201511 yr Author I let the VM run until everything happened again and have attached a syslog from when my system was unresponsive as well as diagnostics from that same time. storage-diagnostics-20150629-1111.zip syslog3.zip
June 29, 201511 yr It seems much more likely that the plug-ins are causing the problem. They should be converted to dockers. Find replacements in the dockers forum.
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