Today I started a raid rebuild (expansion) with a freshly pre-cleared disk.  All was going normally.  Sometime later, I noticed I could not browse to the web interface and no telnet or ping to the assigned server IP.

 

I connected a monitor and keyboard to the server and did a powerdown.  I powered the server back up and got the unRAID boot screen and eventually the root login prompt.  All 14 disks have activity like they are continuing the rebuild (or something).

 

Not being Linux educated, what can I do from the console to determine the status and troubleshoot this server?

 

Thanks for any help.

Today I started a raid rebuild (expansion) with a freshly pre-cleared disk.  All was going normally.  Sometime later, I noticed I could not browse to the web interface and no telnet or ping to the assigned server IP.

 

I connected a monitor and keyboard to the server and did a powerdown.  I powered the server back up and got the unRAID boot screen and eventually the root login prompt.  All 14 disks have activity like they are continuing the rebuild (or something).

 

Not being Linux educated, what can I do from the console to determine the status and troubleshoot this server?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

You should be able to log in at the console.  You can find out what the current IP address is and probably then access the server. 

 

Type:  ifconfig eth0

Wierd.  ifconfig eth0 does not report an IP number.  It shows the hardware address of the card - I assume that's the MAC addr.  And it shows tx and rx packet numbers, etc, but NO IP.

 

Could it possibly be that I have a hardware failure on the NIC?

 

I have extra NIC here, but with all the current disk activity, I don't want to interrupt whatever it's doing.  Should I wait for the disk activity to cease before shutting down again to replace the NIC?

 

Thanks