Really strange - server has been working fine and now some more behavior that leads me to believe that it's demon-possessed.

 

Server boots, parity check is started, I can connect via WebGUI and my shares are all visible on the network. Everything looks great - after an hour I check progress of the parity check - up to some percentage, no worries. Some more times goes by, and then no connection on the network - no WebGUI, no share/server access of the files - 

I can connect via the console-but nothing else

 

Anything in the syslog that would point to failure of some bit of equipment? 

syslog.txt

Nov  1 22:15:39 Tower emhttp: get_config_idx: fopen /boot/config/shares/Backups.cfg: No such file or directory - assigning defaults

This line *implies* that there's a problem with the flash drive.  Not a guarantee as there's usually other lines (at least in v6) that go hand-in-hand with it, but it is suspicious.

 

Unfortunately, further help may be harder to come by as v5 is very old, and not too many users can still remember it (myself included)

 

Hardware wise (outside of the flash drive), the first thing to check is to run a memtest from the boot menu for a minimum of 1 pass (preferably at least a couple, ideally for 24 hours)

I'll give the memtest a go - (and I know this is old, I'm just tied to the miniDLNA plugin on V5 and although I've seen a couple of posts that talk about getting it to work in V6 I'm not sure I'm up to the task these days )

 

Much appreciated!

Turned out to be a failing controller card - $30 and 24 hours waiting for Amazon to deliver a replacement and we're cooking with gas now! Thanks for all the help on this one 

You should upgrade. Lots of advantages to V6 even if you only want NAS. And very difficult to support a system we haven't seen for many years.

 

Upgrade wiki:

 

https://wiki.unraid.net/Upgrading_to_UnRAID_v6

I would - but miniDLNA is a hard requirement - I've seen a couple of threads where folks get it to work, although I'm not up to the task at this moment. 

I do actually have a v6 box in the house for my wife who uses it for her photo/editing business - really love it

8 hours ago, rockytt said:

I would - but miniDLNA is a hard requirement

I see that miniDNLA is listed under the v6 Apps option.   Not tried it myself but it does appear it would not be an obstacle to upgrading.  
 

You can always make a backup of your v6 Flash drive before attempting the upgrade so you can easily revert if needed.

sweet - I hadn't found that before - sounds like someone over here just may have a new project in the near future - thanks for the tip!