Detached volume, can't import from GUI, or see in GUI when imported using CLI

[Z300M]

I am using the legacy interface of FreeNAS 11.2 (I have tried using the new GUI, but that doesn't do the job either: no volume is displayed that I can import.)

Late yesterday I got an alert that one of my drives (a 2TB Seagate, now 3.5yrs past the end of its warranty), and I didn't have time to deal with replacing it, so I simply detached the volume and went to bed.

Now I cannot import it again from the GUI. I was able to reimport it using the CLI, but I cannot see it in the GUI. I read that when a volume is imported using the CLI, the GUI knows nothing about it and that I should export the volume again using the CLI, then import it using the GUI.

BUT the GUI does not "see" a volume to import: I see the moving bar, which it seems is supposed to indicate that the GUI is looking for the volume to import, but then that moving bar simply disappears without finding a volume.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Z300M]

I replaced the dying drive using the CLI and renamed the affected pool (which I had been putting off for a long time) after resilvering was complete, thinking that perhaps the GUI would find importing a pool with a different name to be more acceptable, and that worked.

Then I found a report that it is impossible to import a degraded pool using the GUI, but I don't recall whether that was classified as a bug.

 

[dlavigne]

Which filesystem on the volume? This is a USB drive?

 

[Z300M]

This was a 2TB Seagate SATA drive, one member of a 7-drive RaidZ2 vdev. Without opening up the case, I can't tell you whether it was attached to one of the X10SL7-F's on-board SAS connectors or to one of the M1015's connectors.

The reference to the inability to import a degraded pool is at:

https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/cannot-import-pool-through-gui.57152/post-401704

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this?

 

[Z300M]

As I wrote in Post #2, I replaced the failing drive at the CLI and then was able to reimport the pool using the GUI.

AFAIK, there is still no way to import a degraded pool using the GUI.

 

[danb35]

The reference to the inability to import a degraded pool is at:

https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/cannot-import-pool-through-gui.57152/post-401704

That's a two-year-old thread referencing an issue with a much older version of FreeNAS--if it's still present, I'd say another bug needs to be submitted.