January 3, 201115 yr I just installed 6 1TB hard drives. No problem. I assigned the parity drive, then the others. Then I started formatting them before I went to bed. I knew it would take a long time. I woke up today, they are still in the status of 'formatting' but are spun down and blinking green. Now the web GUI is actually STUCK at a stage where I can only hit "refresh". Why would the webGUI get stuck on me? If I hit refresh nothing changes. **Update I sent a reboot command via the terminal, since I was stuck. When the machine started rebooting all 6 1TB drives started going crazy with reading/writing whatever they do. I know have this situation. All solid green balls. But according to the webGUI nothing has been formatted! So what was it doing for hours and hours last night? It still indicates all my data drives not formatted. Right now it indicates it is doing a parity check, but also gives me the option to format again. At this point do I format again or let the parity sync finish? Then format? Little confused, and that's after reading the FAQ's twice and the manuals several times.
January 3, 201115 yr I just installed 6 1TB hard drives. No problem. I assigned the parity drive, then the others. Then I started formatting them before I went to bed. I knew it would take a long time. I woke up today, they are still in the status of 'formatting' but are spun down and blinking green. Now the web GUI is actually STUCK at a stage where I can only hit "refresh". Why would the webGUI get stuck on me? If I hit refresh nothing changes. Usually it is because you ran into a bug where the formatting process deadlocked, but it could also be some kind of hardware issue that caused it to stop. The only way to know for sure is to post a copy of the system log. Instructions under "troubleshooting" in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting
January 3, 201115 yr Author I tried to paste the syslog, but it was not enough space. I'll try to attach it. syslog.txt
January 3, 201115 yr Author Let me just add the same computer that unRAID is on was just a Win2008 server running for quite some time, along with the same hard drives. I've already ran Intel's diagnostics CD on the system just to ease the mind. All the hardware is operating ok. Is this deadlocked bug fixed in the newer version? I'm barely off the ground here already with a bug.
January 3, 201115 yr Here is a screen shot...I'll get the syslog soon as I can: Actually, you've just been fooled by the screen display. I do not see any evidence of the "bug" I was describing. I can see from the syslog what has happened. You've not yet pressed the "Format" button to start the formatting process. You'll need to check the box under it to enable it. (I see no evidence in the syslog you pressed the "Format" button) All that said, there is a kernel bug with the 4.5 version of unRAID with it crashing on a SMP bug on a specific kernel operation. I've never run into it here on my older server and it only showed itself once on my newer one. It did not crash the entire server, but just stopped one specific command. However, you are not running the version of unRAID with the SMP bug (even though your thread title says 4.5) According to your syslog, you are running version 4.6 of unRAID where that SMP bug had already been fixed. Jan 3 09:58:45 Tower emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 4.6 Joe L.
January 3, 201115 yr So what was it doing for hours and hours last night? It still indicates all my data drives not formatted. Right now it indicates it is doing a parity check, but also gives me the option to format again. OK, that might be why I did not see the evidence of your pressing the format button. (The system log is in RAM and the reboot would have replaced the system log with a new one) Just check the checkbox and press format once more. You can do that even though the parity check is occurring. Formatting should take less than 10 minutes. Next time, "Stop" the array before rebooting, otherwise a parity check will occur on the reboot. Joe L.
January 3, 201115 yr Author Thanks. I'll try to re-format again for the second time. Also, I wasn't able to take the array offline before because the webGUI was stuck at a refresh screen with no other options on it. I'll need to learn how to take the array offline via CLI. Anyone?
January 3, 201115 yr I'll need to learn how to take the array offline via CLI. Anyone? Look here in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Console#To_cleanly_Stop_the_array_from_the_command_line
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