running out of memory with 8G installed or FLASH drive dying?

[CaptainTivo]

I have been running 6.5.3 for about 5 months now and I have only one docker and no VMs so I think 8G should be sufficient, right?

But, today I went to update some apps and I got some very strange behavior in the web GUI:

1. Click on "Apps" and a box pops up with a warning "Disclaimer All application listed here are 3rd party ..."  Clicking "I understand closed the box and opened another copy.  Rinse and repeat:

2. Click on "Plugins" and the plugins fill the page but none of them are "links", that is, a browser (Chrome) did not show a and "arrow" icon indicating a clickable link on any of the apps.

3. I check the syslog and it had one line: "Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 132124704 bytes) in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(383) : eval()'d code on line 73"

4. Clicked on "diagnostics" and downloaded the zip file.  It is attached below.

5. rebooted and a parity rebuild started indicating that shutdown was not clean.

6. downloaded the diag zip again (2nd file below)

 

I'm no expert but this worries me:

"Nov 26 04:41:22 Tower kernel: usb 3-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Nov 26 04:41:27 Tower kernel: usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110"

 

Is this the FLASH drive?  How to determine which device it is?

 

Also this:

Nov 26 04:42:28 Tower emhttpd: error: put_config_idx, 609: No such file or directory (2): fopen: /boot/config/shares/Backup1.cfg
Nov 26 04:42:28 Tower kernel: blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 1
Nov 26 04:42:28 Tower kernel: blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 1
Nov 26 04:42:28 Tower kernel: blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 1

Over and over. I think this says it can't open the cfg file on the USB FLASH drive, right?

 

Then this error:

v 26 04:42:28 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 32768) failed
Nov 26 04:42:28 Tower kernel: blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 1

sda1 is the FLASH drive.

 

Should I replace the FLASH drive?  It is over 6 years old.  I think I need to buy a new license since it is tied this drive, right?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

 

 

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20181127-1453.zip

tower-diagnostics-20181127-1613.zip

[John_M]

You may well need to replace your flash, but before you do put it in your PC and check the file system for corruption. You won't need to buy a new licence. There's a procedure for replacing your licence key to match your new USB flash: https://lime-technology.com/replace-key/

 

[Frank1940]

I would suggest that you make a backup of your flash drive now and make sure that you have a copy of your .key file.  IT should be in the   config  directory/folder of the flash drive.  

[CaptainTivo]

Sounds like a good idea.  Any thoughts on why these errors resulted in memory allocation errors?  This may not be the only problem, right?

[Frank1940]

I would also suggest that you make sure that your flash drive is plugged into a USB2 port (normally a black plastic insert) rather than a USB3 port (normally a blue plastic insert).  USB3 ports for the boot drive have given some Unraid users problems.