SOLVED Freenas-boot mounting error 6

[jap1]

Hello guys,

About 6 months ago I put together a NAS (with ECC) after the recommendations in this board. Thanks for that, I got all the information I needed here. Now I'm having an issue, if you guys could tell me what's the problem or give me some hints how to solve it.

Three days ago, I got after the scrub, two error mails with:

Code:

The boot volume state is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.

and

Code:

The boot volume state is ONLINE: One or more devices are faulted in response to IO failures.

I didn’t change anything in the system.
Today I realised, that its not on the LAN at all. So I plugged in a screen and saw following error while booting.

Code:

Trying to mount root from zfs:freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201503270027[]...
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 06 38 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: DATA PROTECT asc:27,0 (Write protected)
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Error 13, Unretryable error
Mounting from zfs:freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201503270027 failed with error 6.

I tried to boot older versions of FreeNAS and got the same error. Verbose mode didn’t give me more information.
I googled it, but I just got a few results for this particular error 6, which didn't help me.

What's the problem? My wild guess would be, that the hardware of my booting USB Drive failed. It's a "Kingston DataTraveler SE9 8GB, USB 2.0"
Can it be fixed?

Thank you in advance!
greetings

 

[dlavigne]

My wild guess would be, that the hardware of my booting USB Drive failed. It's a "Kingston DataTraveler SE9 8GB, USB 2.0"

Yup, that's what it sounds like. Reinstall another stick and upload your saved config.

 

[jap1]

Alright, I will do that and report.
Thank you!

 

[Ericloewe]

What's the problem? My wild guess would be, that the hardware of my booting USB Drive failed. It's a "Kingston DataTraveler SE9 8GB, USB 2.0"
Can it be fixed?

It's not a wild guess, the warning e-mails specifically say so.

 

[jap1]

I changed the USB and installed FreeNAS again. Restoring the settings worked fast and easy. :)
Thank you!

 

[RonRN18]

I changed the USB and installed FreeNAS again. Restoring the settings worked fast and easy. :)
Thank you!

I am now unfortunately in the same situation you were. I woke this morning with the email and having the exact same issue your presented. This, just a couple days after I had a hard drive in one of my ZFS arrays replaced. I also finally updated the firmware in my LSI controller for another ZFS array.... I have 4 drives on the motherboard's SATA connections and an LSI RAID controller card that has 4 additional drives attached to it, with the capability of 4 additional drives in the future. I don't know if there is any correlation between those items or not. I'm about to head out to buy a new USB flash drive. I'm hoping everything is obvious on how to recover, as I didn't see any steps to follow in this thread.

 

[dlavigne]

I'm hoping everything is obvious on how to recover, as I didn't see any steps to follow in this thread.

See the section "Should a boot device fail..." at http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_install.html#if-something-goes-wrong.

 

[Mirfster]

I'm about to head out to buy a new USB flash drive

Get two while you are there and mirror them. Better yet, use a small SSD (or two) since you have the ability. :)

 

[viro101]

Is this how the error showed up for you?

 

[Hedpe]

Yup, that's what it sounds like. Reinstall another stick and upload your saved config.

Didn’t have the config file, but no files where lost. That was a relief.

 

[pksbadmin]

Hello Sir, I had same issue.
My installation hardware USB was stopped working and giving me Error 13, Unretryable error, Please advise what should I do now. Thanks

 

[faz]

Is this how the error showed up for you?

Hi i am haveing this same issue