Thanks @Tex1954
Interestingly, on reboot the Power Status for the two “unknown drives” (cant remember which brand probably Seagate) is showing active Idle, when the Rockon service is initiated the staus changes to Unknown, and as you have suggested, switching the smart feature off then on again returns the status to active idle.
Also
The caterpillar marching accross the dashboard screen is no longer present and the blue twinkling “buffering” indicator is no longer buffering.
However the rockons still don’t function.
Finally
When attempting to initialise the Rockon service again, the caterpillar returns and the rotating blue buffering indicator stays on.
Switching the smart service a second time doesn’t reset the second time.
Thanks @Hooverdan
Looks like @Tex1954 was right, on attempting a full reinstall with just the os drive connected no output to the monitor was achieved hence running blind, if the mb has failed on the video circuits where else has it fallen down, plus confidence has now been lost and the search for a new rig has arisen.
Thanks to yourself and @Tex1954 for all your help.
Thanks @Tex1954
Unfortunately (for your assistance) I am from the white chalk of Dover accross the “pond” but thanks anyway.
Have you had any experience with Raspberry Pi4 set ups, are they capable of running server services such as Jellyfin for instance?
Hmm, never messed with Pi or ITX or tiny stuff… just power stuff that does the job. If you are in the UK and can cover the VAT on a (a hmm) OLD USED Supermicro uATX board with 32G ECC and 1245-V3 CPU and new heatsink, then shipping would be maybe $65 USD give or take. I don’t know what your total cost would be with all the other things involved though. Maybe we could find someone flying from the US to UK to bring it to you. Or I suppose you could find stuff local for far cheaper… I also have other free fully populated uATX boards that do not support ECC that could do the job.
Many thanks for help and encouragement so far.
Question
Does the operating system automatically install a graphics card (on initial set up) or is the graphics card installation done with screen commands.
(AMD Radeon R7 450 4Gb GDDR5 PCIe 3x16)
Thanks
Regarding Pi4 being powerful enough to run rockstor and services (rockons): yes, but it depends on how resource intensive services you plan on running.
Jellyfin will work, until transcoding is used. Also, since you mentioned an AMD graphics card, I should warn you that the Jellyfin creators advise against using AMD graphics card to accelerate. If you will use only CPU for transcoding, or if you won’t use transcoding, then you are fine.
I imagine that basic graphics capabilities will work out of the box, but I don’t have experience with PCIE cards in Linux.
Thanks @aremiaskfa
Very useful intel, thanks.
It seems I have all the wrong components:
A motherboard that seems to have failed.
A CPU that has no iGPU.
And to compensate a graphics card that Jellyfin doesn’t like or has difficulty functioning with.
Looks as if some new (to me) kit is needed
Thanks again
Having got a Super Micro X10 SLM -LN4F Motherboard to post with a replacement CPU Xeon E3 1285L V4, I intended to reinstall a fresh version of Rockstor, visited the Download page and saved the latest Generic Version X86_64-5.0.15-0.install to the downloads folder, deployed balenaEtcher and received this message.
Redownloaded the ISO file repeated the balenaEtcher process and received the same error.
Thinking that the balenaEtcher app had been corrupted I downloaded bE once more and retried, resulting with the same error.
Current status
Changed the mb to a Supermicro X10SLM ±LN4F with 32 GB ECC Ram and a replacement CPU Xeon E3 1285L V4
Booted into the Bios V3.4 succesfully, all systems appear to be functional, CPU and Ram Recognised.
Could not get balenaEtcher to function (as per previous error post)
swithed to Rufus and formatted the 32gb USB thumb drive (took several hours to format) and auto loaded Rockstor-Leap15.6-generic.x86_64-5.0.15-0.install.iso
Set up the box without data drives and installed Rockstor-Leap15.6-generic.x86_64-5.0.15-0.install.iso
All seemed well with the install process except when it came to the point of loading Docker an Error occurred.
Reconnected the data drives removed the usb and rebooted
everything appears to be in place but no docker service.
opened the command line and used the commands suggested by @Hoverdam resulting in.
It would appear that docker has not loaded hence the reason the Rockons are not functioning.
This could be due to our broadband connection being iffy (Not consistent) at the moment, Virgin Tech person arriving tomorrow, so I await with baited breath.
Will be in touch
My new upcoming setup has one of it’s lower capability X10SLL-F siblings and it runs super great with an E3-1245V3 CPU & 32GB 1600 clk ECC memory! It should last forever and give great performance! So far it has tested flawlessly with 15.6 in my use scenario.
Virgin replaced the Hub 3 and we are experiancing steady conditions.
Sadly
Docker will still not start although Zypper did its thing with many additions.
Possibly why (when retried) the system returned The following item is locked and will not be changed by any action: Installed: rockstor Nothing to do What to do next ??
The returned Script when inputting “systemctl start docker”
Thanks @Tex1954
Hopefully it will provide a lasting service.
It seems to be functioning well so far, all eight threads are shown on the dashboard which makes it seem a little “over the top” however it was an available server board with max ECC Ram, and the cpu was suggested by @Hooverdan, so it was built.
getting back to the initial problem, that being no access to Rockons and Docker accompanied with a caterpillar marching accross the dashboard, specifically the CPU ave use and the networking screens, it seems as if the x axis of the graphs (Time) is being squashed up, almost as if several minuites have been squashed into 1 second hence the caterpillar effect being the time slots squashed together producing a black hairy blob.
It also appeared once on the new rig (Supermicro) but hasn’t repeated since. (Although it is now shut down).
The only commonality left is the power supply, cpu fan, case fan and discs, although thinking about it, the 32 GB ECC Ram was swopped from the Intel board (Previous install) back to the Supermicro which had it installed when it arrived.
Kingston SSD OS only
Data Pool
Crucial SSD 2TB
2x Seagate 4TB
Thinking Which device could be the most obvious offender?? Any ideas most welcome
A while back, a friends computer was clobbered when his apartment complex was hit by lightning. The Dell SFF setup MB VGA output and his monitor were killed. When troubleshooting, I installed a small GPU card in a spare slot and discovered the MB still worked! Cool! So, cleaned the system, replaced MB, cloned old HD onto SSD, put it all back together and it seemed to work great!
Well, took it back to my friends place, booted it up with a new monitor and it seemed to work fine. Next day he called and said it was doing stupid stuff…
I took it back home and discovered that the MB hated the new TForce SSD I had installed!
Soooo, I cloned the system again onto a new Sandisk SSD and it has run perfectly ever since. I can only guess the poor old (updated) MB Bios or something didn’t like something about the TForce SSD… weird I know, but stuff like that happens…
If it was me, I would try moving the SSD to a slower SATA output on the MB or maybe try a different SSD… You never know what can be the problem… Could be the monitor messing things up… or maybe a pissed off Leprechaun or Tooth Fairy is about…
Thanks @Tex1954
Think I will try a slower sata output (sata 2-3 Gb/s) for the OS SSD, posibly remove said SSD and format on a different machine, then try a reinstall without data drives. Any challenges arising from this process?
(Is there a possibility of corrupted files remaining on the SSD after a reinstall ?)
Grabbing a few days away so will be away from NAS activity till next week
Thanks again
Enjoy your time away from the devils of non-working technology. Once you come back:
after installing the system, did you perform the basic Rockstor set up in the WebUI again (i.e. creating the admin WebUI user and importing the pool or creating a new one)?
Did you configure the Rockon Root in the WebUI Services before trying to start the service from within the WebUI? Because, with Rockstor’s setup, if no root has been configured, it will also not start the docker service.
If you did, were you “reusing” an existing Rockon root share, or creating a new one (I’m not sure from your post whether your data drives actually had a pool and shares on it for reimport, or whether those were entirely wiped, too.
What we have usually seen on the forum recently that docker service doesn’t start because Rockstor doesn’t start which is because of network manager timing out (because it takes too long to get the network connection set up). Hence I am not sure why even on your new box and now stable internet again, Rockstor starts (I am assuming) but Docker won’t.
