no GUI : An error occurred.

[Piscenois]

Hi !

I did some update several weeks ago and the GUI is no more available.
nginx error log says :
2016/12/23 10:23:21 [error] 2453#0: *1 kevent() reported that connect() failed (61: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: x.x.x.x, server: localhost, request: "GET /account/login/?next=/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9042", host: "x.x.x.x"

I use to admin Linux computers but not FreeBSD :'(
Can anyone help me to diagnose and repair ?

Thank you
Gabe

 

[Ericloewe]

Can anyone help me to diagnose and repair ?

Sure, if you follow the forum rules and tell us the FreeNAS version and hardware we're talking about...

 

[Piscenois]

My mistake !

version : FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (FreeNAS.amd64) #0 r295946+07c41cd(9.10-STABLE): Wed Nov 9 00:19:25 UTC 2016
hardware :

• server : HP n54l,
  
• RAM : 16GB Kingston,
  
• HDD : 4 x WD red 3TB (WD30EFRX)
• boot on internal usb key : kingston DataTraveler Micro 8GB

if you need more details just ask (and, please, give me the command line to get them )

 

[Ericloewe]

Boot into an older environment and try again. We'll work from there if needed.

 

[Piscenois]

I don't know how to do this. Google tell me to use /etc/netcli, but I got :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/etc/netcli", line 56, in <module>
from django.db.models.loading import cache
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from django.db.models.query import Q
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 17, in <module>
from django.db.models.deletion import Collector
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/deletion.py", line 4, in <module>
from django.db.models import signals, sql
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
from django.db.models.sql.subqueries import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/subqueries.py", line 12, in <module>
from django.db.models.sql.query import Query
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 22, in <module>
from django.db.models.sql import aggregates as base_aggregates_module
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/aggregates.py", line 9, in <module>
ordinal_aggregate_field = IntegerField()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 116, in __init__
self.db_tablespace = db_tablespace or settings.DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 49, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__
% (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)
ImportError: Could not import settings 'freenasUI.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module named settings

Is this the good command ?

 

[Ericloewe]

I don't know how to do this. Google tell me to use /etc/netcli, but I got :

What? No, that won't help at all. It does suggest that your install is severely broken.

To reboot into an older environment, reboot. You'll be shown a GRUB prompt with all available boot environments. Pick an older one and boot to it. Note that that setting is only valid for the current boot, so you'll want to go to the GUI and delete the busted boot environment and then try the update again.

 

[Piscenois]

Thank you very much !
Needed time to find vga cable ... but managed to reboot on 9.10 from june. and Web UI works I will retry to update the system.

 

[Piscenois]

Updates worked, FreeNas is now 9.10.2. Thanks again ! ^^

 

[Schwabix]

Just for completeness and future readers: it might suffice to restart ngnix and django. Learned this in another thread ...
service ngnix restart
service django restart

In my case nginx was absolutely ok and happy about it's config files, but django wasn't running at all. The restart of both brought GUI back to live.