In the old days, we could have betas that stayed beta for a very long time. We learned the difference between a beta that was released yesterday, and one that was released 3 months ago that 80% of the forum had migrated and problems being reported slowed to a trickle. 

 

And, even with golden releases, I tended to insert a delay before installing it on my PROD array. Too many times a golden version would come out, an issue discovered, and a new release issued less than 2 weeks later.

 

Recently LimeTech has manged this much much better. I was actually holding out, but decided to at least install the plugin to enable me to install the betas. AND THE PLUGIN TOOK THAT AS PERMISSION TO ACTUALLY INSTALL IT. So I went to RC6 without really intending to, and it is working fine and I am not backing it out.

 

Each user needs to decide on their threshold for risk. Depends somewhat on the features in the release. (If there is something you really need, you might move faster than if there is nothing of such importance to you.) But also on monitoring the issues found and confirming none of them would impact you in a negative way.

 

I would not fault anyone for being on RC6, or for holding back. But seems very stable to me so far.

3 hours ago, zin105 said:

 

You just made me paranoid for being on this RC

 

No need.  I was on every beta/RC that was released for many years until I got hit.  Wasn't LimeTech's fault, the bug was in a released RFS driver.  I'm sure I'll be on this RC fairly soon.  I just need a spare hour or two to install and then play with it.

2 hours ago, dalben said:

 

No need.  I was on every beta/RC that was released for many years until I got hit.  Wasn't LimeTech's fault, the bug was in a released RFS driver.  I'm sure I'll be on this RC fairly soon.  I just need a spare hour or two to install and then play with it.

 

As I recall, that went into the golden code!

Do I need a monitor, mouse, and so on connected to my server to do this upgrade?

Edited July 18, 20178 yr by Johan71

1 hour ago, Johan71 said:

 

Do I need a monitor, mouse, and so on connected to my server to do this upgrade?

 

You don't. You should be able to upgrade via the webUI from a separate machine.

 

Also, can you edit your post to remove the huge needless quote please?

 

1 minute ago, nexusmaniac said:

huge needless quote please?

FYI, on any quotes, you can hide them by clicking the chevron next to it.

1 hour ago, Johan71 said:

 

Do I need a monitor, mouse, and so on connected to my server to do this upgrade?

Not if you are using the GUI in a browser on a LAN computer and want to boot using the default settings for unRAID.  Why did you think you needed one? 

 

If you have issues, you might at that point need to connect a monitor to see what is going on.  By the way, I would not personally recommend moving from one of the stable releases to this beta series (or any beta series for that matter) unless I was local to the server. (No point in tempting Mr. Murphy...) 

15 minutes ago, Squid said:

FYI, on any quotes, you can hide them by clicking the chevron next to it.

 

I know  But it's just pointless having that whole quote there, regardless of whether or not I can hide it

 

(IMO)

49 minutes ago, Squid said:

FYI, on any quotes, you can hide them by clicking the chevron next to it.

 

I didn't know that.... 

5 hours ago, Squid said:

FYI, on any quotes, you can hide them by clicking the chevron next to it.

 

And you won't damage the DHD by doing so?

1 minute ago, BRiT said:

 

And you won't damage the DHD by doing so?

Once you hit 9 chevrons the power requirements become extreme though...

19 hours ago, nexusmaniac said:

 

You don't. You should be able to upgrade via the webUI from a separate machine.

 

Also, can you edit your post to remove the huge needless quote please?

 

Fixed 

On 6/23/2017 at 9:50 PM, Lev said:

After a +1 week of using builds since rc3, this has been very stable now up to rc6. 

I'd like to say a special thanks to bonienl, the changes made in rc3 allowing IP addresses assignable to docker containers was a feature I'd been wanting for a long time! It made me upgrade early to this 6.4 pre-release version. It works great. I can setup a static route in the new network settings UI as well to point the IP around my OpenVPN plugin to allow that container to now be in the VPN, so ports still forward to it (Great for those wanting to run Plex and have remote access yet still run OpenVPN for everything else on UnRAID). It works fantastic! I finally shutdown my last VM, it's all docker now. Thank you bonienl !!!!!

 

Two days more and I'll have been on this rc6 for one month solid. In that time a hard drive died, array rebuilt just fine. Parity checks fine. One of my m1015 cards failed, swapped it out just fine and back up. Endured a lot of random shit over this last month but one thing is certain... rc6 is rock solid.

 

 

4 hours ago, Lev said:

 

Two days more and I'll have been on this rc6 for one month solid. In that time a hard drive died, array rebuilt just fine. Parity checks fine. One of my m1015 cards failed, swapped it out just fine and back up. Endured a lot of random shit over this last month but one thing is certain... rc6 is rock solid.

 

 

 

Same here !   I only need a docker for spotweb... Thats the final VM I have not been able to replace... Weird thing, since spotweb is kind of the best thing NZB tracking wise...

After each reboot I have to keep re-adding a static route in the Network Settings GUI.  Not sure if this is a question for @bonienl , I know this part of the Network Settings GUI is new. I did some research and it looks like I need to create a /boot/config/network-rules.cfg and place it there? If that's the right work around, please confirm.

 

 

Why am I adding this static route in the first place? It's a route I manually add to force a route from a static IP of a docker container to my gateway 192.168.1.1 so that it doesn't get caught up in the OpenVPN plugin running all the time. That way I can still forward ports from my Gateway to the Docker container.

9 hours ago, Lev said:

After each reboot I have to keep re-adding a static route in the Network Settings GUI.  Not sure if this is a question for @bonienl , I know this part of the Network Settings GUI is new. I did some research and it looks like I need to create a /boot/config/network-rules.cfg and place it there? If that's the right work around, please confirm.

 

In the current implementation static routes are not persistent across reboots. Main reason is to allow users to restart with a clean sheet in case of problems. I do see a reason to make routes persistent, but as an option. I'll put this on my todo list.

 

I have setup a borg backup script and left it overnight and now I am getting a 504 Gateway Time-out from nginx when trying to access the gui on rc6.

 

Could I perhaps try restarting nginx? If so what is the command line command to do that please.

 

I can access the cli via shh.

 

Thanks

 

Edit: I see others have had the same issues, but the solution seems to be a reboot, which I could do without midway through a full backup. Is there another option? (

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Edited July 24, 20178 yr by local.bin

On 6/28/2017 at 6:57 PM, Dephcon said:

lost connectivity to my server, it just fell off the network.  tried to do a soft power-off by hitting the power button, didn't work after 10mins so i did a cold boot. unfortunately i didn't have a monitor handy to diag live, but I've included a post-restart diag if anyone wants to have a peak.  Haven't had anything like this happen since the 4.x days.

vault13-diagnostics-20170628-1853.zip

 

This happened again to me last night.  This time I tried to hookup a keyboard and monitor to get some diag info but couldn't get any video output from the system.  Again I tried to do a clean shutdown with a single pressed of the power button, didn't work so I had to do a hard power off.

Edited July 24, 20178 yr by Dephcon

not sure if this is already reported.

 

I think there is little problem with the spacing. The space bar of drive 18 and 19 fuses together. See screenshot below. This is on the latest Safari.

On 7/24/2017 at 3:38 PM, Dephcon said:

On 6/28/2017 at 6:57 PM, Dephcon said:

lost connectivity to my server, it just fell off the network.  tried to do a soft power-off by hitting the power button, didn't work after 10mins so i did a cold boot. unfortunately i didn't have a monitor handy to diag live, but I've included a post-restart diag if anyone wants to have a peak.  Haven't had anything like this happen since the 4.x days.

vault13-diagnostics-20170628-1853.zip

 

This happened again to me last night.  This time I tried to hookup a keyboard and monitor to get some diag info but couldn't get any video output from the system.  Again I tried to do a clean shutdown with a single pressed of the power button, didn't work so I had to do a hard power off.

 

Happened again, third time now.  Not sure what to do at this point :\ 

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by Dephcon

3 hours ago, Dephcon said:

Happened again, third time now.  Not sure what to do at this point

Hi mate,

 

I'm really new to unRAID (like under a week), but this sounds like the issue i was having with my new Ryzen system. Turns out i had to disable Global C-States in the BIOS to fix my system. While it was enabled the longest i had my server up for was 3 hours. Like i said, don't know if this helps but thought i'd float it. 

 

Cheers,

 

Wilson

32 minutes ago, CobaltAUS said:

Turns out i had to disable Global C-States in the BIOS to fix my system.

Already thoroughly documented in the ryzen thread, fixed in the upcoming RC7

11 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

Already thoroughly documented in the ryzen thread, fixed in the upcoming RC7

Correct, just throwing it out there as i was unaware of it until i too had it pointed out to me.

not running ryzen, but thanks.

On 7/26/2017 at 3:45 AM, MvL said:

not sure if this is already reported.

 

I think there is little problem with the spacing. The space bar of drive 18 and 19 fuses together. See screenshot below. This is on the latest Safari.

Ummm, I think they fuse together because drive 18 is 100% full.  The gap on drive 17 represents the 2% space available.  Or are you saying that other drives which are 100% full have a gap after them?