Unraid stuck in array starting even after many attempts at shutting down.

[spencerkmedia]

Hi,

I am having issues with my Unraid starting up.

When I got home, the server was powered off for some unknown reason so I turned it back on, now it's stuck in array starting. When I try rebooting using either GUI buttons and console, it just sits there. The only way I have been able to shut it down is forced shutdown by power button.

 

I haven't made changes to software since before the last update.

 

My system is:

6 core Intel Core i5 8400

24 GB of G.Skill Aegis

MSI Z370 SLI Plus

2 128 GB Silicon Power Ace SSD

3 HDD (2x 2TB) (1x 1TB)

 

I have uploaded the diagnostics zip.

 

Any help is appreciated!

spencerkmedia-diagnostics-20181018-2041.zip

[Squid]

Your parity drive desperately needs to be changed out

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   073   073   036    -    18176
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--C-   001   001   000    -    48623

After handling that, I would consider also changing disk 3

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   168   168   140    -    255

You should enable and configure notifications within unRaid, as it would have let you know (presumably long ago) about the parity drive.

Edited October 19, 2018 by Squid

[spencerkmedia]

10 minutes ago, Squid said:

Your parity drive desperately needs to be changed out

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   073   073   036    -    18176
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--C-   001   001   000    -    48623

After handling that, I would consider also changing disk 3

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   168   168   140    -    255

You should enable and configure notifications within unRaid, as it would have let you know (presumably long ago) about the parity drive.

Okay, how do I get my unraid out of Array Starting to be able to make those changes, when I shutdown and power back up, it automatically starts

[JorgeB]

Disable array auto-start by editing disk.cfg on your flash drive (config/disk.cfg) and changing startArray="yes" to "no", then reboot.

[spencerkmedia]

On 10/19/2018 at 4:28 AM, johnnie.black said:

Disable array auto-start by editing disk.cfg on your flash drive (config/disk.cfg) and changing startArray="yes" to "no", then reboot.

Okay, that's changed but it wont let me change my parity device to my other 2TB drive it says it's the wrong drive for the slot.

[JorgeB]

What are you trying to do? You can't change two disks at the same time with single parity, and why are you trying to assign the failing parity as disk3?

[spencerkmedia]

2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

What are you trying to do? You can't change two disks at the same time with single parity, and why are you trying to assign the failing parity as disk3?

I was just moving it around to see what disk I currently had in there. It wasn't for any purpose other than seeing what drives i had to replace. Even with removing the bad drive and replacing it with a good drive, it won't let that change take place.

[JorgeB]

Just now, spencerkmedia said:

Even with removing the bad drive and replacing it with a good drive, it won't let that change take place.

You can't have two different to drives at once, if you move one drive from one slot to a different one you're trying to do that, since that disk will be missing in the original slot and is now a new disk on another slot, if you want to do that you need to do a new config (tools -> new config) , though and in case it's not obvious if you assign old disk3 to parity after a new config it will delete any data there.

[spencerkmedia]

So, should I wait till my new drives come in to make a change so I don't have to change Disk3?

[JorgeB]

If disk3 has data you have to wait or move it to other disks.

 

 

[spencerkmedia]

I get that part, I wanted to make sure that was the way I should go.