February 5, 20206 yr I upgraded from 6.8.1. It had a similar problem, but after a cold reboot, 6.8.1 was able to obtain an IP address from my DHCP server.
February 5, 20206 yr Author Just now, mifronte said: I made a back up of my flash drive using the unRAID flash backup prior to updating to 6.8.2. How do I revert back to it? I need my server up and running. You use the USB Creator tool to re-flash your flash. Instead of specifying a release to put on the flash, you tell it to read from a zip file (your backup).
February 5, 20206 yr Are there commands that I can run at the console to give my unRAID the correct IP and to get the GUI restarted? It appears the only thing that is wrong is that the server is not using the correct IP. Or does this mean the NIC driver is not working with my server?
February 5, 20206 yr Author 8 minutes ago, mifronte said: Are there commands that I can run at the console to give my unRAID the correct IP and to get the GUI restarted? It appears the only thing that is wrong is that the server is not using the correct IP. Or does this mean the NIC driver is not working with my server? Yes, log into console and type this command: inet restart If still no IP address you can copy the system log to the flash: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog.txt This wils show up in root of flash device. Plug flash into PC to get it.
February 6, 20206 yr I see these Router Advertisement, with 6.8.2, does anybody know how to suppress them? I wasn't seeing these with version 6.7.2. Edited February 6, 20206 yr by dianasta
February 6, 20206 yr Looks like the inet restart command worked. I am now able to access the server shares and GUI. I will post the diagnostics in the support thread so that someone can figure out why the server is not getting an IP on reboot. Edited February 6, 20206 yr by mifronte
February 9, 20206 yr Upgraded from 6.8.0 to 6.8.2 and upgrade largely went fine, although it reported an "Unclean Shutdown" even though, I just selected the Reboot option as I did with other releases? But besides that, so far, so good.
February 10, 20206 yr Upgrade bricked my USB key. Went from 6.7.2 > 6.8.2. I am unable to read the key on a PC or MAC....
February 10, 20206 yr Upgraded from 6.8.1-rc1. Everything working fine. Thanks limetech and team. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
February 10, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, F3nris said: Upgrade bricked my USB key. Went from 6.7.2 > 6.8.2. I am unable to read the key on a PC or MAC.... That probably means the USB stick was going to fail shortly regardless. The upgrade process is one time a significant amount of new data is written to the USB stick.
February 10, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, F3nris said: Upgrade bricked my USB key. Went from 6.7.2 > 6.8.2. I am unable to read the key on a PC or MAC.... Do you have a backup of your USB stick? If so restoring is as simple as copying the backup back onto a new stick (or old stick if it still works - inability to read can mean a corrupted partition table, not a dead dead stick - but I would not trust it moving forward though). Then follow the procedure for usb stick replacement to get a new license. If you don't then, well, you will need to manually set things back up from scratch. Your data should still be safe (unless you make silly mistakes like assigning a data disk to parity or click "format" without thinking, etc.). And remember to keep backups of your stick moving forward. Last but not least, the upgrade itself didn't brick your stick, it just can't. The stick was already on its last leg. Think of it like you have a car, you take it out for a drive to your in-laws and the engine dies in the process. Do you blame the in-laws *cough* blame the drive to the in-laws *cough* for it? I would but I know it's really not the cause.
February 11, 20206 yr 20 hours ago, itimpi said: That probably means the USB stick was going to fail shortly regardless. The upgrade process is one time a significant amount of new data is written to the USB stick. Possibly, this is the second time its happened to me when doing an upgrade. I have been using 32gb sandisk ultra fit's to allow for lots of space in the hope this would reduce the overall wear to it. Maybe move to 64gb? The last time this happened was over a year ago. 20 hours ago, testdasi said: Do you have a backup of your USB stick? If so restoring is as simple as copying the backup back onto a new stick (or old stick if it still works - inability to read can mean a corrupted partition table, not a dead dead stick - but I would not trust it moving forward though). Then follow the procedure for usb stick replacement to get a new license. If you don't then, well, you will need to manually set things back up from scratch. Your data should still be safe (unless you make silly mistakes like assigning a data disk to parity or click "format" without thinking, etc.). And remember to keep backups of your stick moving forward. Last but not least, the upgrade itself didn't brick your stick, it just can't. The stick was already on its last leg. Think of it like you have a car, you take it out for a drive to your in-laws and the engine dies in the process. Do you blame the in-laws *cough* blame the drive to the in-laws *cough* for it? I would but I know it's really not the cause. The drive was not being seen by any of the partition tools I quickly tried last night. It did not have any warnings before the upgrade. Maybe if I get bored over the weekend I will pull out a linux laptop with some forensic tools to see if I can pull some info from it. However, being so cheap, not really worth the effort. On a side note... Since I encrypted all of my disks, recovering the config was a bit more cumbersome this time around. I had a backup.... in a encrypted share.... Wouldn’t have been so bad if I had a recent screen cap of the drive assignments. The two parity drives will be finished rebuilding in little over an hour from now. I think I might add a old drive to mirror the flash backup to in the future.
February 11, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, F3nris said: Possibly, this is the second time its happened to me when doing an upgrade. I have been using 32gb sandisk ultra fit's to allow for lots of space in the hope this would reduce the overall wear to it. Maybe move to 64gb? The last time this happened was over a year ago. I would actually recommend that you avoid USB3 type drives completely as they seem to have much lower longevity than USB2 drives. I suspect that this is because USB3 drives seem to run hotter than USB2 ones and that is not a good thing in a drive that is plugged in 24x7. There is no perceptible performance advantage in using USB3 drives as after the initial boot Unraid runs from RAM so why pay more for less dependable drives. I personally am currently using Sandisk Cruzer fit 16GB which has seemed to be fine, but if buying new ones I would probably avoid the nano form factor and buy something like the Kingston Data Traveller SE9 as being larger and metal cased it should be better as far as temperature is concerned.
February 11, 20206 yr upgraded from 6.7.2 several times each time plex stops working i can see other servers web apps etc but my own server is non existent im not the only one with this problem but there seems to be no answers so i am going to save my appdata folder and start again i'll let you know if i find the answer Edited February 11, 20206 yr by Anthony Hughes update
February 11, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, Anthony Hughes said: upgraded from 6.7.2 several times each time plex stops working i can see other servers web apps etc but my own server is non existent im not the only one with this problem but there seems to be no answers so i am going to save my appdata folder and start again i'll let you know if i find the answer i've seen this behavior once by myself, but several times by others. in any case it wasn't necessary to start over. but i just remember it can be a hassle, to get it recognized again. latest case: friend couldn't use firefox to sign in locally to his server. it always used the plex.tv site to login in. after fidling around we used chrome browser and it worked immediately. you could also try to use this url once: http://[ip]:32400/manage maybe some of it helps
February 11, 20206 yr 8 hours ago, itimpi said: I would actually recommend that you avoid USB3 type drives completely as they seem to have much lower longevity than USB2 drives. I suspect that this is because USB3 drives seem to run hotter than USB2 ones and that is not a good thing in a drive that is plugged in 24x7. There is no perceptible performance advantage in using USB3 drives as after the initial boot Unraid runs from RAM so why pay more for less dependable drives. I personally am currently using Sandisk Cruzer fit 16GB which has seemed to be fine, but if buying new ones I would probably avoid the nano form factor and buy something like the Kingston Data Traveller SE9 as being larger and metal cased it should be better as far as temperature is concerned. Good points. Right now the usb has been in the back of the case at the IO. Considering your points, maybe I will get a usb IO cable for the mobo and mount it inside the case for airflow to help the longevity.
February 12, 20206 yr On 1/26/2020 at 6:53 PM, limetech said: Due to a security vulnerability discovered in forms-based authentication: ALL USERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO UPGRADE Just a thought - it would be helpful to include this into the update message on unraid directly. Not all of the Unraid users are on the forum everyday. Im active here and I just have read this notification and luckily im already on 6.8.2 since a couple of days.
February 14, 20206 yr trying to upgrade to this version and the download stops at 8%. is your link ok? Quote plugin: downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer-6.8.2-x86_64.zip ... 8% it's teasing me! 18 minutes later: Quote plugin: downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer-6.8.2-x86_64.zip ... 60% Edited February 14, 20206 yr by Ockingshay
February 15, 20206 yr Just upgraded from 6.7.2 and my Windows 10 VM wont start. No error message. It looks like its starting then it boot loops. If anybody has any suggestions it would be appreciated.
February 15, 20206 yr Upgraded from 6.7.2 with no issues noticed. Thanks again for the hard work and clean upgrade!
February 15, 20206 yr 9 hours ago, Tonitram said: Just upgraded from 6.7.2 and my Windows 10 VM wont start. No error message. It looks like its starting then it boot loops. If anybody has any suggestions it would be appreciated. Post diagnostics
February 15, 20206 yr 10 minutes ago, trurl said: Post diagnostics Sorry, I meant to include diagnostics. Thats what happens when i post in the middle of the night. diagnostics-20200215-0836.zip
February 15, 20206 yr just upgrade from 6.4.1 to 6.8.2 via the auto update and it went smoothly. This is the first time since v4.xx that I have not done it manually. Time will tell but so far so good.
February 22, 20206 yr updated 6.8.0 ----> 6.8.2 Upgrade went fine, server rebooted normally. Will check in later to see how it runs. EDIT: 30hr in no issues Edited February 24, 20206 yr by emuhack
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