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[Sinister]

Hey all, no matter where I click I get this error message, I have re-started several times. I noticed I was having this issues becasue I started having issues running plex from freenas. same error if I try to reboot, shutdown. shell doesn't work. hardware fried? TIA

I'm running version: 11.1 U7

Build FreeNAS-11.1-U7
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4150 CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory 16233MB
System Time Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:20:57 -0400
Uptime 10:20AM up 1 day, 21:20, 0 users
Load Average 0.10, 0.13, 0.09

 

[Sinister]

anyone :(

 

[Redcoat]

Well, you didn't give anyone here much information to go on (see "Forum Rules" on the masthead for guidance on what's useful), so I'm going to take a guess on the most likely cause - a corrupt system drive, maybe a USB boot drive. If you saved your configuration I would restore from it. If you didn't save it I would make a fresh boot drive, boot from it and reconfigure FreeNAS.

 

[Sinister]

ok thank will do that, hopefully I have the the config saved somewhere.

 

[Redcoat]

Since you still haven't given us anything to go on, it seems you might agree that you could have a corrupt USB boot drive.

For the sake of completeness, here are the next steps: get a new usb stick, 16GB minimum, and load version: 11.1 U7 on it. That version can be found at https://download.freenas.org/11/11.1-U7/
Boot up your FreeNAS box - if my guess was right (corrupt boot drive) and the new boot drive is properly created, you shoud be up and running again. If you can't find a saved config that you created from the System, General, Save Config button, take a look at post #35 in this thread https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/update-went-wrong.74084/page-2#post-514298 that describes how you can recover your configuration that is automatically stored on your pool on a daily basis (assuming that your system information is in its default location on your data pool and not on your boot drive).

Good luck!

 

[Sinister]

Server seems fine, then I try to config plex and system goes unresponsive, everywhere I click shows sorry, an error occurred, I'm guessing that the server re-starts at some point because every time I log in I see a different IP.

I'll go ahead and re-load version 11.1, will that wipe all my data?

I appreciate your help and patience Redcoat, is not something I manage every day so its a little hard for me to speak admin lol


Jul 21 00:00:00 freenas newsyslog[42457]: logfile turned over due to size>200K
Jul 21 00:00:00 freenas syslog-ng[1598]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration;
Jul 21 23:44:37 freenas kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 259 to 200 packets/sec
Jul 21 23:44:37 freenas kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 259 to 200 packets/sec
Jul 22 00:00:00 freenas syslog-ng[1598]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration;
Jul 22 10:39:31 freenas warden: Building new Jail... Please wait...
Jul 22 10:39:31 freenas warden: zfs clone gir/jails/.warden-template-standard@clean gir/jails/Plex
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas warden: Success!
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas warden: Jail created at /mnt/gir/jails/Plex
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas bridge0: Ethernet address: 03:8f:59:a6:e0:00
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: em0: promiscuous mode enabled
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: bridge0: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: bridge0: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas epair0a: Ethernet address: 02:78:50:00:04:0a
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas epair0b: Ethernet address: 02:78:a0:00:05:0b
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: epair0a: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: epair0a: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: epair0b: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: epair0b: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN
Jul 22 10:39:32 freenas kernel: epair0a: promiscuous mode enabled
Jul 22 10:39:34 freenas kernel: em0: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:39:34 freenas kernel: em0: link state changed to UP
Jul 22 10:40:25 freenas dhclient: New IP Address (em0): 192.168.1.158
Jul 22 10:40:25 freenas dhclient: New Subnet Mask (em0): 255.255.255.0
Jul 22 10:40:25 freenas dhclient: New Broadcast Address (em0): 192.168.1.255
Jul 22 10:40:25 freenas dhclient: New Routers (em0): 192.168.1.1

 

[Sinister]

I found my saved config.. from a couple of years ago, hopefully still usable. excuse my noobness but I tried to run /var/log/messages only to get "permission denied" yes I'm logged in as root.

 

[Redcoat]

OK, so server is booting up OK, but the plex installation is a problem.

You say the server "seems fine" until you attempt to configure plex. How do you judge that it "seems fine" and what are you actually doing when you "configure plex"?

Do you have any other jails besides plex? Has plex ever run OK for you? Any other pertinent history?

An OS reload won't do anything to your data, but let's get some more information before we get there.

 

[Sinister]

I dont have any other jails.

This how I'm setting up plex. (worked the first time I did it a few years ago)

1. Manually create a generic jail.
2. Create/link storage for that jail.
3. Go back to the main jails tab.
4. Select plex jail and then select shell command.
5. type "pkg upgrade" then press Y
6. type "pkg install plexmediaserver-plexpass" or "pkg install plexmediaserver"
7. Once done type "sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable=YES" or "sysrc plexmediaserver_enable=YES" depending on what version you installed.
8. Once done type "service -R"
9. in a browser, navigate to your plex jail's assigned IP:32400\web 10. Login into plex.


now I just did it again everything went fine until I installed the pkg for plex. I couldnt access plex via web so I shutdown/re-started plex jail and that's when everything went unresponsive and the server re-started. now its showing IP 192.168.1.159.

 

[Sinister]

I just check jail still there but plex jail/pkg is not running, if I try to install it or enable plex the server will re-start. so I'm guessing something is corrupted.

installing the plug in for plex is a no go

Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://192.168.1.159/plugins/plugin...562fa6f74a870141b2baf542a3715822c428fb5d7823/ Software Version: FreeNAS-11.1-U7 (b45bfcf29)
Exception Type: MiddlewareError
Exception Value: [MiddlewareError: Failed to download http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x64: HTTP Error 404: Not Found]
Exception Location: ./freenasUI/plugins/plugin.py in download, line 120
erver time: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:10:30 -0400

 

[Redcoat]

Well, I really think it would be best for you to take this opportunity to update FreeNAS to the latest, make iocage jails and install plex afresh, but perhaps we should try to get you up and running easily with what you have, THEN figure out an upgrade path.

So, if you think the old config file you found is "reasonably fresh" (not too many significant changes in your installation since it was saved and there was a working plex installation in place at the time) then I suggest you reload it on the System General page and reboot and report back if your plex installation comes back to life.

 

[Sinister]

unfortunately its a no go, I loaded my saved config everything loaded fine, as soon as I created a plex jail, server rebooted so I'm going to wipe and reload freenas, I'll update once I have some news. thanks again, truly appreciate the help.

 

[Sinister]

If I re-store to factory default or wiping the OS it will not delete my data correct? OS is sitting separate hard drive from my data.

 

[Redcoat]

f I re-store to factory default or wiping the OS it will not delete my data correct? OS is sitting separate hard drive from my data.

No. Safeguard is to disconnect your datadrives and leave only the OS drive connected.

If you are going that route, again, I encourage you to install the latest version of FreeNAS, make iocage jails, and install plex afresh.
Look at these tutorials to get an idea of how simple this will be - only "complication" will be finding the location of your existing media datastore on your pool and associating it with the appropriate mountpoint.

https://www.ixsystems.com/community...darr-lidarr-jackett-transmission-organizr.58/

https://www.ixsystems.com/community...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-11-2-jail.19412/

 

[Sinister]

I just had the time to finish this, as recommended above I installed the latest Freenas and loaded plex fresh, reconnected the data hard drives, configuration was easy, thanks a lot Red I appreciate the help.

for noobs like me this help me with the config.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhd-OvUqNxQ&list=PLxLTEX4leHMbotLODvSJVXIGyai_2bZrT&index=12&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WmCxriHEjE&list=PLxLTEX4leHMbotLODvSJVXIGyai_2bZrT&index=11&t=0s