June 27, 201016 yr So I'm trying to build my first unRAID server today. I have everything installed and running but I cannot for the life of me get the webGUI up on any of my computers. I have checked everything and found the ip for my server is 192.168.1.105. That being said I can ping to and from the server every pc on my network. Only thing I can't do at the moment is see the webgui. Is there something I missed in the setup? Was there another folder of files I need to add to the flash drive? I'm kind of stumped. I checked through the config files on the flash drive. I really think there is something missing since I can ping the server just fine. Any help is appreciated. I am using the free version of unRAID to test before I purchase a licence. I would post system specs but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
June 27, 201016 yr If you did not set the volume label on the flash drive to UNRAID (6 characters, all upper-case) it will not be mounted (because it cannot be identified without its label) and you'll not get the management interface in your browser because the file that starts it is never invoked. When you log in on the system console as "root" and type ls -l /boot what do you see? When you type ls -l /dev/disk/by-label what do you see?
June 27, 201016 yr Author root@Tower:~# ls -l /boot total 56192 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2313328 May 15 11:13 bzimage* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54570326 May 15 11:14 bzroot* drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 Jun 26 13:52 config/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13639 Jun 26 2010 ldlinux.sys* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5162 May 15 11:14 license.txt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 160280 May 15 11:14 memtest* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33404 May 15 11:14 menu.c32* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1991 May 15 11:14 readme.txt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 183 May 15 11:14 syslinux.cfg* root@Tower:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 26 13:51 UNRAID -> ../../sdb1 root@Tower:~#
June 27, 201016 yr Author Found an install for 4.4.2 ,,,, Installed without a hitch and got access to web interface 1st try. Maybe the file I got was corrupt trying another download of 4.5 ... Cheers.
June 27, 201016 yr I would. I have the latest and it worked right off the bat. I think the only problem I had at first is when I tried http://tower it didn't like it until I typed ifconfig grabbed my ip and then http://192.168.1.215 then it worked every time afterwords even http://tower However even though you tried your ip it didn't work, which is odd. I just know they fixed things and 4.5 is supposed to be the shinniest penny on the block.
June 27, 201016 yr root@Tower:~# ls -l /boot total 56192 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2313328 May 15 11:13 bzimage* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54570326 May 15 11:14 bzroot* drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 Jun 26 13:52 config/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13639 Jun 26 2010 ldlinux.sys* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5162 May 15 11:14 license.txt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 160280 May 15 11:14 memtest* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33404 May 15 11:14 menu.c32* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1991 May 15 11:14 readme.txt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 183 May 15 11:14 syslinux.cfg* root@Tower:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 26 13:51 UNRAID -> ../../sdb1 root@Tower:~# Well, there goes my theory. Those are the expected files. It then comes down to your router. I see you are on-line with the older version of unRAID. To upgrade to 4.5.4, you only need to replace the bzroot and bzimge files. You can even re-name the existing bzroot and bzimage to bzroot.442 and bzimage.442 so you can revert to them if needed. Joe L.
June 27, 201016 yr Author Yeah I will probably be upgrading to 4.5 today. I do have a question about speed since I'm going to be upgrading to a plus key soon. Is 4.5 any faster on the write/reads? All my PC's are connect over gig ethernet and it seems to take forever to write files to unraid. I heard a cache disk may help but I didn't see an option for that yet. Anyway I'm using the on board SATA for now until I need to expand with a pci-e card. Also system specs below in sig:
June 27, 201016 yr unRAID 4.5.4 is significantly faster in network reads/writes and array write speeds than your unRAID 4.2. Some of the better tuned systems are getting 40-43 MB/s writes directly to the array.
June 27, 201016 yr Author Well I just tried the upgrade to 4.5 and now I can't get in the webGUI. Kind of sucks that I built this and it doesn't work on the newest version. I just replace the rootbz and imagebz. Can ping and all that but no webgui. meh. Guess I'm going back to 4.2 until I can figure it out.
June 27, 201016 yr Well I just tried the upgrade to 4.5 and now I can't get in the webGUI. Kind of sucks that I built this and it doesn't work on the newest version. I just replace the rootbz and imagebz. Can ping and all that but no webgui. meh. Guess I'm going back to 4.2 until I can figure it out. Are you using the built-in networking, or an add-on network card? What has happened to many is the motherboard LAN chipset was not detected in the older releases, and is supported in the newer release. If you are using a different network interface card, or if your MB has two lan connections, then it is very possible that now you need to explicitly disable the one you are not using in the BIOS, otherwise unRAID will be using the one you do not have connected to the LAN.
June 27, 201016 yr Author I'm using the on board nic. I'm starting to think that this might be the problem but at the same time I'm having a hard time understanding why. If I can send and receive a ping to and from the server then shouldn't everything be ok? I mean doesn't that mean the nic is recognized and configured? I would really like to move to 4.5 and get my plus key. But it's not going to happen until I get this sorted. Just to recap: On board nic 4.4.2 = ping/webGui 4.5.4 = ping/no webGui On another note (in 4.2.2) is it normal to take 9 hours to build parity on blank drives? Meaning the are no files on my system yet.
June 27, 201016 yr you can see if the "emhttp" process is running. If it is not, then that is why you cannot connect. ps -ef | grep emhttp | grep -v grep If it is running you'll see something like this: root@Tower:/boot# ps -ef | grep emhttp | grep -v grep root 1464 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:02:24 /usr/local/sbin/emhttp If it is not running, you can try invoking it by typing: /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & If you can log on via the system console, then copy the system log to the flash drive and then attach it to your next post. log in as "root" cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog.txt Then, shut down, move the flash drive to your PC, and attach the syslog.txt file to the next post. It will probably have some clues. Joe L.
June 27, 201016 yr Author Well I don't know what happened or how it happened but .... I copied the 4.5 bzimage and bzroot files over my 4.2 install ..... booted and now I'm staring at the webGUI Thank you all for your help. I wish there was an explanation for all this though. Guess it's time to do some testing and then get my plus key
June 27, 201016 yr Well I don't know what happened or how it happened but .... I copied the 4.5 bzimage and bzroot files over my 4.2 install ..... booted and now I'm staring at the webGUI Thank you all for your help. I wish there was an explanation for all this though. Guess it's time to do some testing and then get my plus key I would do a memory test. That is one possible explanation. Differing versions use different memory locations.
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