This has happened maybe a half dozen times in the last two days. I open my web browser and go to http://unraid (the name of my server) and the page opens and immediately switches to "Shutting Down System." It's the message you get when you purposely take down the array and click the Power Down button. UnRAID shuts down and the box powers off in a few seconds. I can power it up and it comes back fine.

 

This only happens in response to accessing the web interface, though not every time I access the interface. Maybe 1 time in 5. It has never shut down on it's own, not even during a 10 hour file copy. It's not the server itself just powering off either (from a power malfunction of some sort), it's clearly unraid performing a systematic power down on its own immediately upon loading the web interface.  I'm afraid to even try and access the web interface anymore, though obviosuly I have to occasionally.  :'(

 

MB is a P5B-VM DO, with 2 GB Kingston RAM, and a Core 2 Duo 2.13 ghz CPU. There are four 500 GB SATA drives, and the USB key. No other drives installed.

I've never seen this happen before 

 

To troubleshoot, please open a telnet window on your PC and type this command:

 

tail  -f  /var/log/syslog

 

This command will list all system log messages in the telnet window as they occur.

 

Now try to make the problem happen.  When it does, select/copy/paste the system log info from the telnet window and then post or send to me at [email protected]

 

hey, mine does this 80% of the time when i use a quick link on the toolbar in Internet Explorer 7.

I put a quick link to a server on an IE7 toolbar and clicked it about 100 times and it happened 0% of the time.

Not saying it doesn't happen, but we can't fix what we can't reproduce, or can't see evidence of how it happens.

 

Perhaps a bug in the browser.  If you entered this into the address bar:

 

//server/update.htm?shutdown=x

 

Then system will shutdown - this is the "page" that's accessed when you click the Power down button.  Maybe somehow this url is getting sent sometimes?

Well, though it happened several times before posting my question, I've been unable to reproduce it after.

 

Prior to limetech's response in this thread, I was avoiding it (seemingly) by accessing the web interface with Firefox, rather than IE7 (Vista). I'm not particularly knowledgable about how different browsers interface with servers, but it occurred to me that maybe it was IE that was the problem.  Firefox seemed to work fine, and I never replicated the issue while using it.

 

Since limetech's response here, I have been trying to duplicate the issue by returning to IE. But now I can't. I hit the server at least 50 times yesterday with IE (using the same desktop shortcut I'd used before) and it never shut down. I have no idea what has changed, but it seems stable now. Maybe simply rebooting my PC (which I sometimes go weeks without doing) cleared something up.

 

I dunno. If the issue returns, Ill post back.