June 13, 201610 yr Hi everyone. Last night my Plex docker died (was not at home), and I couldn't connect to it again for some reason. When I got home today, my server was dead. I apparently didn't have a power outage, I called my alarm company and they could inform me that there hasn't been any outages recently that affected my system. So I'm concluding that my server died, for some reason. I booted it back up, and it seems to be working, but the syslogs all start from today, I can't seem to find any logs or diagnostics that are older than when I just now turned it on. What happened here? Shouldn't unRAID keep the old logs, at least for a while?
June 13, 201610 yr I am not sure about what the unRAID powerdown sequence does anymore BUT there is a Plugin that many of us are using which does write a log file as well as addressing a number of other issues that prevent a 'clean' shutdown! Here is a link to that Powerdown Plugin: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31735.0 I assume that you have a UPS on this system. I am assuming this because you did not mention that a Parity Check started up when you restarted the server. One other thing which I should mention is that animals (and other critters) have been known to momentarily depress the power button and start the shutdown sequence.
June 13, 201610 yr Author I am not sure about what the unRAID powerdown sequence does anymore BUT there is a Plugin that many of us are using which does write a log file as well as addressing a number of other issues that prevent a 'clean' shutdown! Here is a link to that Powerdown Plugin: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31735.0 I assume that you have a UPS on this system. I am assuming this because you did not mention that a Parity Check started up when you restarted the server. One other thing which I should mention is that animals (and other critters) have been known to momentarily depress the power button and start the shutdown sequence. I do not have a UPS (should though... one of those things), so the parity check is running now. Everything seems to be fine though, at least for now. I'll try the plugin, so I can check it out if it happens again. If not, I'll have to chalk it up to a coincidence or freak occurrence. I have no pets (sadly), and to my knowledge no critters, so I doubt that was the issue.
June 13, 201610 yr I am not sure about what the unRAID powerdown sequence does anymore BUT there is a Plugin that many of us are using which does write a log file as well as addressing a number of other issues that prevent a 'clean' shutdown! Here is a link to that Powerdown Plugin: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31735.0 I assume that you have a UPS on this system. I am assuming this because you did not mention that a Parity Check started up when you restarted the server. One other thing which I should mention is that animals (and other critters) have been known to momentarily depress the power button and start the shutdown sequence. I do not have a UPS (should though... one of those things), so the parity check is running now. Everything seems to be fine though, at least for now. I'll try the plugin, so I can check it out if it happens again. If not, I'll have to chalk it up to a coincidence or freak occurrence. I have no pets (sadly), and to my knowledge no critters, so I doubt that was the issue. If you did have a power outage, I would be looking for some other evidence of it besides a call to anyone who wasn't inside your residence. Finding some digital clocks blinking on appliances is usually an excellent indicator... I hope you realize that nothing can get a log file written if there is a power outage if you don't have a UPS. Without a UPS, I would also be a bit worried about file corruption if something is doing a write when it occurs.
June 14, 201610 yr Author As of yesterday, I was looking for a system crash, which should have been logged in some form, but I gained access to the event logs for my alarm system, and it turns out to have been some kind of power error that evening. Looks like unRAID was fine, but I should get a UPS on it anyway. I'll have to ask my alarm company why they couldn't tell me what was in the event log in my alarm system, but that's another matter. Thanks for helping
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