[6.8.3] Server Issues - Strange Behavior

[DieFalse]

For the last 5-6 days I have been having weird issues with my primary unraid server.   I have had dockers hang, unable to easily be killed.  I have had reports in email that state the following: 

cron for user root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null0

error: stat of /var/log/tinc.* failed: No such file or directory

 

I know its a missing file/directory but have no clue what it is.   

 

I can not run Smart Checks on drives: 

"Unavailable - disk must be spun up" even though no disk is spun-down

 

Errors occurred - Check SMART report 

 

These make no sense to me as its not normal and doesn't seem to be connected to anything.

arcanine-diagnostics-20200421-1144.zip

[JorgeB]

7 minutes ago, fmp4m said:

I can not run Smart Checks on drives:

Is that on all drives or SAS drives only? Currently SMART tests don't work on SAS devices.

[DieFalse]

7 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Is that on all drives or SAS drives only? Currently SMART tests don't work on SAS devices.

This is reported on every drive in the server.   I did recently add 8 SAS drives,  would that disable all smart options?   

[JorgeB]

42 minutes ago, fmp4m said:

would that disable all smart options? 

It shouldn't, but it might be related, let me run some tests on my test server, but likely not before tomorrow.

[JorgeB]

So just checked this and SMART works normally for ATA devices, even if SAS devices are present (SMART tests still don't work for SAS but that's normal), can you check if it still works for the SSDs connected on the onboard SATA ports? If yes you should try updating the both LSI controllers firmware, since they are on a very old one.

[DieFalse]

Hi Johnnie,   The sata SSD's can smart check.

 

How do I update the LSI and expander cards firmwares? 

[JorgeB]

Updating the LSIs should be enough.

[DieFalse]

I found this page, but there only seems to be DOS / Windows IT fw available.   Is this possible in unraid without booting to another medium?

 

https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8i

 

also,  any clue on the errors I have been receiving including CRON?   My dockers are going up and down on their own and can not be manually stopped.

[JorgeB]

11 hours ago, fmp4m said:

Is this possible in unraid without booting to another medium?

Possible probably, but easiest way is to boot with a DOS flash drive, or install the controller in a Windows desktop.

[DieFalse]

Ok,  booting into FreeDOS causes "unable to initilize PAL" errors.   Trying to boot to EFI Shell causes "Secure Boot Errors" (secure boot is disabled in my bios/uefi), and I have tried everything short of disassembling this monstrosity of a case to update the firmware.   I was going to try to boot a VM and see if the windows option would work from there, but remembered no VM's will boot for me (see another thread for that).

 

I can't get the flash app to work.

[JorgeB]

You could remove just the controller an updated it on a Windows desktop, that's what I usually do.