August 15, 200916 yr I recently powered down my server to go on vacation. Upon returning, powered back up - no problem. But today I went to access the console (I was going to preclear a new disk) and have no prompt - I just see some messages that appear to be the end of installing the bubbaQ's "unraidweb" package. I seem to remember that since I last rebooted, I manually created a 1-line "unraidweb.auto_install" so that it would auto-install on a reboot. I don't think I ever tested this out, but seemed very straightforward. The file contains the line "installpkg unraidweb-0.1.04-i386-bubba.tgz". It ran and the lightty web server was running after boot. Althought there is no command prompt, I can type and it is echoed to the display. I tried ^C, ^Z, ESC, ENTER, and a variety of other keyboard commands, but could not get the normal prompt to appear. The Web GUI is working fine, and I can telnet remotely with no problem. But just can't get to the console prompt to logon and enter commands. Any ideas?
August 15, 200916 yr Try Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on the system console. You can switch between 6 different "system consoles" using "Alt-F1" through "Alt-F6". You can log in on each in turn, and do whatever you like.
August 15, 200916 yr Author Didn't work. It looks like the S10_install_custom_packages script is hanging. I did not make any changes. The contents are ... cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c The last few lines of the syslog after boot are ... Aug 15 12:57:17 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: Starting Lighttpd Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: ************************************************************ Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: * unRAID-Web has been started. Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: * Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: * To access it, put this address Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: * in your browser: http://192.168.216.41:89 Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: ************************************************************ Aug 15 12:57:19 Tower S10-install_custom_packages[1899]: Several scripts didn't run - including powerdown. (Grumble, so my ctrl-alt-del did a dirty reboot and now I'm doing a parity check)
August 16, 200916 yr Author A little more data. 1. I removed the auto install file and boot completed normally. 2. I installed the package manually (from a remote telnet session) and it installed normally. 3. Coincidently, after installing the package, I tried to run the "mdcmd" command in that same session. The system reported "command not found". I opened a new session and it worked fine. I can only guess that the package does something that affects the environment and that's the reason it hangs my boot process. For now, I'll just install the package manually after each boot.
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