March 24, 20197 yr started noticing weird behavior today.... moved my unraid server to a new chassis, intending for it to be headless 100% of the time now. however, im no longer able to connect to the web gui from my laptop unless i boot unraid in gui mode on the hardware. im 99% certain i used to be able to boot unraid OS (non gui mode) and still connect to the webgui. should i be able to connect to my webgui, even if the server is booted in 'non gui mode'? is there a way to force unraid to always boot into web gui mode? version 6.6.7 Edited March 31, 20197 yr by drewbuntu
March 24, 20197 yr Community Expert 24 minutes ago, drewbuntu said: started noticing weird behavior today.... moved my unraid server to a new chassis, intending for it to be headless 100% of the time now. however, im no longer able to connect to the web gui from my laptop unless i boot unraid in gui mode on the hardware. im 99% certain i used to be able to boot unraid OS (non gui mode) and still connect to the webgui. should i be able to connect to my webgui, even if the server is booted in 'non gui mode'? is there a way to force unraid to always boot into web gui mode? version 6.6.7 You should always be able to get into the GUI via the network regardless of the boot mode. You can change the default boot mode by moving the ‘default’ entry into the appropriate section of the config/config.sys file. The easiest way is to click on the boot device on the Main tab in the Unraid GUI.
March 24, 20197 yr Community Expert As I recall, this has been a problem in the past but I can not remember the solution. Try googling unraid server gui boot mode and see if the solution is there. Edited March 24, 20197 yr by Frank1940
March 24, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, drewbuntu said: is there a way to force unraid to always boot into web gui mode? Yes, in the syslinux folder on the flash drive, edit the syslinux.cfg file. Notice that 'menu default' is in the label unRAID OS section. Move it to label unRAID OS GUI Mode section if you want this to be the default. default menu.c32 menu title Lime Technology, Inc. prompt 0 timeout 50 label unRAID OS menu default kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot label unRAID OS GUI Mode kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui label unRAID OS Safe Mode (no plugins, no GUI) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot unraidsafemode label unRAID OS GUI Safe Mode (no plugins) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui unraidsafemode label Memtest86+ kernel /memtest Is your server booting and running OK, as far as you can tell, even though you cannot connect to the GUI if it boots in 'normal' mode? Did you update the BIOS before or after moving the hardware to a new chassis? Did anything else change on your system or was it just the same hardware being moved to a different case? Edited March 24, 20197 yr by Hoopster
March 25, 20197 yr Author 16 hours ago, itimpi said: You should always be able to get into the GUI via the network regardless of the boot mode. that's what i thought. thanks for confirming 14 hours ago, Hoopster said: Is your server booting and running OK, as far as you can tell, even though you cannot connect to the GUI if it boots in 'normal' mode? I'll explore this question a little more. it does boot, however when i attempted to ssh to it I noticed the IP block was vv different. normally i expect an IP in 192.x.x.x range but without gui mode its getting a 169.x.x.x IP. ssh timed out but i didnt investigate that yet 14 hours ago, Hoopster said: Did you update the BIOS before or after moving the hardware to a new chassis? Did anything else change on your system or was it just the same hardware being moved to a different case? the only change is a different PSU. no BIOS updates or anything. AFTER discovering the problem i upgraded unraid fro 6.6.5 to 6.6.7, hoping the update would fix it. restatement for clarity, issue was originally found on 6.6.5 and persisted after 6.6.7 update. Edited March 25, 20197 yr by drewbuntu
March 25, 20197 yr 19 hours ago, drewbuntu said: started noticing weird behavior today.... moved my unraid server to a new chassis, intending for it to be headless 100% of the time now. however, im no longer able to connect to the web gui from my laptop unless i boot unraid in gui mode on the hardware. I asked what, if anything, had changed on your system besides moving to a new chassis because I had a similar issue after upgrading to unRAID 6.5.x from 6.4.x. The system would not boot at all except in GUI mode. In my case, I had to change the flash drive to boot in UEFI (instead of legacy BIOS) and the problem was solved. I don't think this is your issue based on what you have described. If you are getting a 169.x.x.x IP address, that indicates networking problems. The GUI will not be accessible from any machine on your network if it has a non-routable 169.x.x.x address. Does your server have a static IP address or is it configured to receive a DHCP address? 169.x.x.x usually indicates a failure to communicate with a DHCP server. You may need to attach a monitor and keyboard to the server to get some diagnostics since you can't access it via GUI or SSH. If you can't get a valid IP address, check the network.cfg on your unRAID flash drive and make sure it looks OK. Is your NIC onboard your motherboard or is it an add-on card? Do you have a spare known good PCIe NIC you can put in the server to test with to eliminate existing NICs as the problem? One of my servers is completely headless (it has IPMI) and it works just fine with all versions of unRAID up to and including version 6.7.0 rc5 which it is currently running.
March 25, 20197 yr Author 4 minutes ago, Hoopster said: Does your server have a static IP address or is it configured to receive a DHCP address? DHCP. Yes, i suspect you're right about it being networking related. probably the GUI is coming up but im not able to discover the hostname the NIC is onboard and i do not have a pci card available (though i can get one). first ill take a look around at the .cfg and using keyboard / monitor thanks for your input so far
March 25, 20197 yr 15 minutes ago, drewbuntu said: DHCP. Yes, i suspect you're right about it being networking related. probably the GUI is coming up but im not able to discover the hostname Once you get this resolved, I highly suggest you assign a static IP address to the server in unRAID and your router. It makes troubleshooting a lot easier when the server has a known IP address. Edited March 25, 20197 yr by Hoopster
March 26, 20197 yr I have the same issue I have been trying to figure out all day with no luck. I just built a new rig to consolidate my unraid server and my desktop pc into one. I am able to get booted into my server (GUI) no issues except I cannot get an IP address. If I leave it set to automatic I get a 169.x.x.x address and setting a static IP does not help. I have an onboard NIC, no pcie NIC laying around. My current server that I am running is 6.3.1. Any other suggestions would be great! Edited March 26, 20197 yr by jwellnitz
March 26, 20197 yr Community Expert 7 minutes ago, jwellnitz said: If I leave it set to automatic I get a 169.x.x.x address This means your server isn't getting DHCP. Check cabling, ports, router.
March 26, 20197 yr 1 minute ago, trurl said: This means your server isn't getting DHCP. Check cabling, ports, router. I have done that short of completely replacing my router with a different one, which I currently don't have an extra one laying around.
March 26, 20197 yr Community Expert Did you reboot the router and any switches connected to the server and the router? These things all are computer like chip sets and a reboot will often solve problems...
March 26, 20197 yr 32 minutes ago, Frank1940 said: Did you reboot the router and any switches connected to the server and the router? These things all are computer like chip sets and a reboot will often solve problems... Yep. Rebooted multiple times, once I left them off and unplugged for 5 or so mins.
March 26, 20197 yr I just noticed something... I moved my drives and usb back to the old tower/hardware and everything works just fine. When I moved stuff back to the new build and I went into the network settings, it doesn't show a MAC address like it does on my old setup.
March 26, 20197 yr On your new rig, once it gets to the Login prompt, login (as root user) and type the 'df' command, should look something like this: root@Test1:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1970548 530088 1440460 27% / tmpfs 32768 224 32544 1% /run devtmpfs 1970564 0 1970564 0% /dev tmpfs 2021920 0 2021920 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 8192 0 8192 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 131072 172 130900 1% /var/log /dev/sda1 3781076 212928 3568148 6% /boot /dev/loop0 8832 8832 0 100% /lib/modules /dev/loop1 6016 6016 0 100% /lib/firmware In particular /lib/modules and /lib/firmware should be mounted on loop devices.
March 27, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, limetech said: On your new rig, once it gets to the Login prompt, login (as root user) and type the 'df' command, should look something like this: root@Test1:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1970548 530088 1440460 27% / tmpfs 32768 224 32544 1% /run devtmpfs 1970564 0 1970564 0% /dev tmpfs 2021920 0 2021920 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 8192 0 8192 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 131072 172 130900 1% /var/log /dev/sda1 3781076 212928 3568148 6% /boot /dev/loop0 8832 8832 0 100% /lib/modules /dev/loop1 6016 6016 0 100% /lib/firmware In particular /lib/modules and /lib/firmware should be mounted on loop devices. I don't see /lib/modules or lib/firmware anywhere. I have /var/lib/docker on loop0 and /etc/libvirt on loop1.
March 27, 20197 yr 3 hours ago, jwellnitz said: I don't see /lib/modules or lib/firmware anywhere. I have /var/lib/docker on loop0 and /etc/libvirt on loop1. Probably updating to 6.6.7 failed somehow. I suggest you plug usb flash into PC, make a backup, reinstall using Flash Creator Tool and then restore your 'config' directory contents from your backup.
March 27, 20197 yr 11 hours ago, limetech said: Probably updating to 6.6.7 failed somehow. I suggest you plug usb flash into PC, make a backup, reinstall using Flash Creator Tool and then restore your 'config' directory contents from your backup. This worked! Starting over with a fresh install on the USB seem to have helped. I am going to just reconfig the whole server from scratch since my last server I had done a lot of playing around with and probably have stuff that I no longer need set up. Thanks for the help guys! @drewbuntu hopefully this can help fix your issue too since we were having similar issues??
March 31, 20197 yr Author alright sorry for the delay... got busy, just started a new job... anyways, heres my network.cfg output. ill check the mounted devices with df as the hawaiin shirt admin recommended. i always trust guys in hawaiian shirts cat network.cfg # Generated network settings USE_DHCP="yes" IPADDR= NETMASK= GATEWAY= BONDING="yes" BRIDGING="yes" i do get an error when booting in non-gui mode related to bond0, says it cant find the device. is this part of the problem? is bonding required for unraid? Edited March 31, 20197 yr by drewbuntu
March 31, 20197 yr Author looks like all thats mounted is /run /dev /dev/shm /sys/fs/cgroup /var/log how is this system working in 'gui mode' but not in 'non-gui mode'?
March 31, 20197 yr Community Expert 7 minutes ago, drewbuntu said: looks like all thats mounted is /run /dev /dev/shm /sys/fs/cgroup /var/log how is this system working in 'gui mode' but not in 'non-gui mode'? Have you tried this? (The GUI boot process is different from the non-GUI boot.) On 3/27/2019 at 1:31 AM, limetech said: Probably updating to 6.6.7 failed somehow. I suggest you plug usb flash into PC, make a backup, reinstall using Flash Creator Tool and then restore your 'config' directory contents from your backup.
March 31, 20197 yr Author 1 minute ago, Frank1940 said: Have you tried this? im actually just finishing that right now initial tests looking good so far! are any configurations NOT held in /config? i restored my prior config folder and things look about the same
April 20, 20224 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, J05u said: I have diffrent mount and i can't access webui You have posted to a 3 year old thread marked solved. On 3/31/2019 at 1:20 PM, Frank1940 said: Have you tried this? (The GUI boot process is different from the non-GUI boot.)
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