Help Required with missing volumes

[Oculus82]

Hi all,

New to the forum, never had problems but this morning i came down to a Panic error on my nas setup.

Hardware is above the recomended specs
i7 4770
16gb RAM
Boot drive = Sandisk Ultra 64gb (Pen Drive / USB Drive)
Drives:
2x 4.0TB Drives in Stripe - Pool Name : NAS1
2x 2.0TB in Mirror - Pool Name : NAS2

Pool - Nas2 has things like docs / photos etc and is perfectly fine (not yet imported - see below).

Pool - Nas1 has music/media and things that i can replace should it fail (which it may have)

So... The original error was

Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b : movq $0,kdb_why

I rebuilt a new USB drive and setup the Nas again from scratch.. the initial wizard shows the NAS1 and NAS2 for import however NAS1 import via the gui produces the panic error again.
So i rebuilt the drive again and following some google searches imported NAS1 directly from the shell using zpool import -R /mnt NAS1 which flagged an error saying its in use by another machine (or something to that effect - i didnt write it down)
The next option advised was to use zpool import -f -F NAS1 which paused and looks like it worked.
if i run Zpool status i get the below..

pool: NAS1
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 10:34:40 with 0 errors on Sat Aug 17 11:09:42 2019
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
NAS1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/ebff6c15-84f3-11e7-ab5d-4439c450389d ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/ecad9dd0-84f3-11e7-ab5d-4439c450389d ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0
da0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors


However i have no volumes in the gui

Any advice while im smashing google for answers?
Do i need to run other commands via the shell, if i read correctly the shell imports differently to the gui.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated
- Shaun

 

[danb35]

However i have no volumes in the gui

Which version of FreeNAS are you using? The old GUI (prior to 11.2) didn't show pools imported from the shell in the GUI (though I believe the new GUI does).

 

[Oculus82]

Hi Dan,

Heres a copy from the system info


Hostname freenas
Build FreeNAS-11.1-U7
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 16236MB
System Time Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:59:09 +0100
Uptime 3:59PM up 1:49, 0 users
Load Average 3.54, 3.24, 2.90

That may explain why i cant see the volume

 

[Oculus82]

Im under the impression the latest version doesnt work well with pen drives and is better off a SSD which i dont have any more Sata channels or i would

 

[danb35]

That may explain why i can't see the volume

It would indeed. In the short term, you can still use the volume, and it should be automatically imported when you restart the system.

 

[danb35]

Im under the impression the latest version doesnt work well with pen drives and is better off a SSD

The relevant change happened with the release of 9.3; 11.1 isn't any different than 11.2 in that regard. An SSD has been the better advice for a long time, but it hasn't been (and still isn't) essential.

 

[Oculus82]

Heres a screen shot - i have no NAS1 and yet the volume says

pool: NAS1
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 10:34:40 with 0 errors on Sat Aug 17 11:09:42 2019
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
NAS1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/ebff6c15-84f3-11e7-ab5d-4439c450389d ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/ecad9dd0-84f3-11e7-ab5d-4439c450389d ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

How can i setup SMB shares for it - i have somewhere to put the data on if i can just get access to it to rebuild it

I've restarted the system btw
-Shaun

 

[Oculus82]

So perhaps update it to the latest version after running a "zpool export NAS1" to detatch the volume then re adding after the upgrade?

 

[danb35]

So perhaps update it to the latest version after running a "zpool export NAS1" to detatch the volume then re adding after the upgrade?

That will work--you don't even need to do the upgrade for this to work.

 

[Oculus82]

You've lost me..

Ive mounted the volume using zpool import -fR /mnt NAS1 which now shows in shell when i run zpool status
but there are no volumes in the gui.

I need to see the volumes in order to create SMB shares

Shaun

 

[danb35]

You've lost me..

Yeah, I wasn't very clear. You can do zpool export NAS1, and you should be able to import the pool through the GUI.

 

[Oculus82]

Gotcha - i have however done that and everytime i do it replicated the

Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b : movq $0,kdb_why

Then gets stuck in a boot loop as it trys again and again to import the volume

 

[Oculus82]

Im closing this thread - The pools corrupt and i've admited defeat formatting the disks.

Fortunately i have friends and family members with about 60% of whats been lost and the rest is re-downloadable with time.
Freenas has worked flawless for years but im dropping it and building a new Raid 6 array on my DC

thanks for your time @danb35