@Hunyady wrote:

Hi,

I installed Rockstor a few days ago on an old laptop. It has just one hard drive (320 gb). Then I found out that the entire drive has to be system drive. So I installed Rockstor on a flash drive. It was installing like 35 hours and then, every time I boot it from the boot menu (flash drive cannot be selected as default boot option) it acts like I opened it for the first time (there is that loading bar down that normally shows only on first boot). And when it launches, it just says:

Rockstar 3 (Core)
Kernel 4.10.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 on an x86_64

[Server name] login:

It doesn’t show any IP adress even though it is connected with an ethernet cable. Any ideas?

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@martino wrote:

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Brief description of the problem

I am trying to install and configure syncthing. I have uninstalled the rockon as I wanted to make some changes to the base configuration. When I’ve rebooted Rockstor and tried to logon I get an error - shown below

Detailed step by step instructions to reproduce the problem

I had previously uninstalled and reinstalled the syncthing rockon with no problem. One difference this time is that I had added storage to the syncthing config - not sure of that is relevant or not. I normally reboot the machine after uninstalling but when I tried to log back on I got an error!

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I am unable to access the GUI

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@DarkYamik wrote:

Hello there!

A few days ago I was checking the Pool section of my Rockstor and found that the rockstor pool had the quota disabled and I tried enabling it, but it throws and error indicating that there is a Scan already in progress.

With the commandbtrfs quota rescan -s / I get the message rescan operation running (current key 179233460225) but this operation has been running for 4 days straight and it seems like it hasn’t done anything. I’ve tried searching documentation to see if there is a way to cancel a rescan to trigger it again but I couldn’t find anything related to it.

Also I tried to disable the quota but the command just stays there forever without returning anything.

Does someone have any idea on how to cancel the rescan or how to reenable the quotas on my pool?

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@shocker wrote:

Hi guys,
Quick question is deduplication supported with Rockstor?

Bedup or something else?
Also found this: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/User_notes_on_dedupe#Enable_dedupe

Thanks

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@shocker wrote:

Hello,
Forgot about this one

Scenarios to reproduce:

• Degraded pool RAID56 (I think it can be any type of degraded pool but at least to be able to mount it as degraded).
• Reinstall Rockstor with OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 (Don’t think that this is a distro related thing).
• Go to Storage -> Disks -> And click import pool info from one of the HDDs. An error will occur and Rockstor will not be able to do this.
  If you mount the pool manually from CLI in a degraded state, then Rockstor can successfully import the pool information.

As this seems to be more like a future then a bug, it will be nice instead of the error to have a message as most of the unskilled users will have trouble to work around this. A nice popup with "before importing pool information type in CLI “# mount -t btrfs -o degraded /dev/[disk that was clicked] /mnt2/mountpoint”.

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@jcdick1 wrote:

I’m just wondering if, after the completed move to an OpenSUSE base, the use of the iSCSI LIO target functionality will still be generally available if volume management falls under the Rockstor management. I’m on OpenSUSE now, waiting for the new Rockstor stable to be available, then I’ll be doing a full re-install to the 5.2 and re-upping my subscription, but I will still need the iSCSI targets recreated. Would that be a matter of creating the target volume in Rockstor then running YaST in a shell to create the IQN and LUN, do you think?

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@kupan787 wrote:

Hello all.

When I started, I had setup Rockstor on a USB drive. It worked great, but I decided recently to move over to an SSD for the OS.

I probably did this wrong, but what I did was do a DD of the USB drive to the SSD. Then I booted up with the SSD. Rockstor booted up fine, and everything is great. Except, the old USB drive shows as detached, and I can’t seem to get rid of it from the interface.

Here is the old USB detached disk on the Disk pane:

The info icon tells me to do pool resize to remove it:

When I go to the Pool page, I see “both” disks:

But when I try and remove it, I get an error/warning:

I get that modifications to the OS disk are not a good idea, and this is a good way to protect the user. However, in my circumstance, I’m not sure how to “fix” things. In the end, it is really just an annoyance, everything works just fine. I just was trying to clean up things after switching drives.

Doing a ‘btrfs fi show /’ I only see the one drive:

[root@rocknas ~]# btrfs fi show /
Label: ‘rockstor_rockstor’ uuid: 9041aeee-40ef-4c54-a53c-c71f3c0e492f
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 6.71GiB
devid 1 size 25.29GiB used 19.06GiB path /dev/sds3

So my guess is that this is just something in the database that could be cleaned up? But before I started poking around, I wanted to see if I was going about this the wrong way, or if there was even a recommended way to transition the OS across disks.

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@Stefan wrote:

Hi All,

how can I increase the samba transfer speeds for large files?

I am getting 50MB/sec with iperf3 but only 20MB/sec coping a large file. (wifi)

It is not the underlying storage. I get the same from SSD, internal transfer from one pool to another are well above 100MB/sec. Replication via ethernet gets 50MB/sec.

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@freaktechnik wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Built on openSUSE testing channel live (early-adopters/developers only):

I had created most of the shares at the time I initially set up my rockstor install, so they should all have vaguely the same config. From what I can tell it’s exactly the same as the home share on the root pool, too. The only difference is that the subvol path is wrong now. Instead of going to /@/ it goes to the (old?) snapshot dir, as already mentioned.

While I have no problem with deleting the shares, I’d like to keep the data that is already there (and also keep issues with having to rejiggle the shares everywhere at a minimum, but I fear it’s too late for that already). Your answer only provides guidance on how to remove the faulty shares, but does not mention how to make new shares that will keep the data around. Or is it just as simple as choosing the share name and it’ll just use what’s already on disk?

What I a most worried about is that my rock-ons services share is affected by this. Will the rock-on service realize that its share is gone and ask me again to set it once I start it again?

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@phillxnet wrote:

I am delighted, and somewhat relieved, to finally announce after more than 2 years of transition from our CentOS base, our first BETA release within our “Built on openSUSE” only testing channel.

We are, as yet, not quite at feature parity with our prior CentOS variant (Stable Channel) but getting very close. The intention is to finally offer a Stable Channel rpm for our “Built on openSUSE” rpms once we have this final beta testing phase completed successfully. As always there are wrinkles and one is that our current target disto Leap15.2 is still in beta; but this is our attempt to skate to where the puck is going. There after the testing channel for the Rockstor4 series will settle into the some what non trivial task of dealing with our other outstanding ‘out-of-date’ elements, Python and Django versions mainly, so it will return to being very much more developers only.

This forum thread picks up in part from the following thread but for a wider audience:

But as we still as yet only have private beta testing releases of our new ‘Built on openSUSE’ installer there are sill a few hoops to jump through. Currently they are all still as documented in the above early-adopters post.

And given we are now on the ‘last leg’ of this rather long and drawn out journey I’m also going to pickup from the following thread/post:

Given we are now deviating away from the CentOS base and can finally concentrate fully on our ‘Built on openSUSE’ endeavour; which is the future of the to-be Rockstor4 variant, I’ll begin this beta changelog thread.

Thanks to all those helping to support this endeavour, either via testing/code/doc contributions or via a Stable Channel subscription.

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@tazzydemon wrote:

I have returned to Rockstor after 3 years because the openSuze 15.2 will install on my AsRock 3700 in UEFI mode which the ancient Centos base would not.

So Im messing about with the rockons and even got owncloudHTTPS going although with the wrong store area. I have found the UID numbered shares which with care can be edited directly to alter the rockon container.

Hoever I cannot find the metastore of json definition files at all.

Some more in depth explanation of this and a pointer to identification of the container shares might be nice.

If one is referring to a share in the filesystem as a hard coded location, how does one do it. Whats the syntax? I can see the /mnt2/foobar locations but that doesn’t look quite kosher.

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Samba service an update cannot start

Detailed step by step instructions to reproduce the problem

The server was power off for 2 months. Today we power it up and from here the problems…

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Error Traceback provided on the Web-UI

        Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/command.py”, line 225, in post
return Response(rockstor_pkg_update_check(subscription=subo))
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/pkg_mgmt.py”, line 293, in rockstor_pkg_update_check
raise e
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/bin/yum changelog 2020-Apr-21 rockstor. rc = 1. stdout = [‘Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror’, ‘Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile’, ‘’]. stderr = [’’, ‘’, ’ One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),’, " and yum doesn’t have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only", ’ safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work “fix” this:’, ‘’, ’ 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.’, ‘’, ’ 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working’, ’ upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer’, ’ distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the’, ’ packages for the previous distribution release still work).’, ‘’, ’ 3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled’, ’ yum --disablerepo= …’, ‘’, " 4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won’t use it by default. Yum", ’ will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it’, ’ again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:’, ‘’, ’ yum-config-manager --disable ‘, ’ or’, ’ subscription-manager repos --disable=’, ‘’, ’ 5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.’, ’ Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,’, ’ so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much’, ’ slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice’, ’ compromise:’, ‘’, ’ yum-config-manager --save --setopt=.skip_if_unavailable=true’, ‘’, ‘Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again’, ‘’]

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@shocker wrote:

Hello,
How to reproduce the bug:

• Add more than 15 pools (to have two pages).
• Go on the 2nd page and when you click the quotas disable/enable the GUI goes to the home page. For the first page everything is working ok.

Running OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 (latest build).
Rockstor 3.9.2-58

Cheers

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@Paulo_Constanca wrote:

Hello everyone.

I found Rockstor today and I’ve been testing it out, so far I’m really liking it!

I tested it using 3.9.1-0 initially, then after i decided to start over, reinstalled it and decided to give the updates a go. It updated the system to version 3.9.1-16.

Everything seems to be working except Samba: I did no configurations on rockstor at all before upgrading, samba just fails to start. I tried checking the journal logs, but i couldn’t find the issue by myself.

Could you help me out finding out whats going on?

Thank you for your time.

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Problem with write acces after windows restore

Detailed step by step instructions to reproduce the problem

I lost my write acces to my shared folder from my Rockstor operated unit. This has worked fine for a long time, but when trying now, i do not have acces. I have tried to delete the samba share without any help. Tried now to go back to a previous snapshot and got the following message. It seems like the whole share (Plex-Media) has write protection. How to gain acces to this again?

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/clone_helpers.py", line 82, in create_repclone remove_share(share.pool, share.name, PQGROUP_DEFAULT) File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/fs/btrfs.py", line 800, in remove_share toggle_path_rw(subvol_mnt_pt, rw=True) File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py", line 546, in toggle_path_rw return run_command([CHATTR, attr, path]) File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py", line 121, in run_command raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc) CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/bin/chattr -i /mnt2/Media/Plex-media. rc = 1. stdout = ['']. stderr = ['/usr/bin/chattr: Read-only file system while setting flags on /mnt2/Media/Plex-media', '']

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@ChristopheL wrote:

Hello, after upgrade to the latest stable release I faced 2 issues.

1. a Kernel Panic on boot : root fs was not available
2. samba server could not start

I found these solutions

1. the upgrade updated the kernel but did not create the associated initramfs image file for that kernel. I rebooted using the old kernel and forced the re-installation of the latest kernel with yum reinstall kernel-ml-4.12.4-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64. The re-installation generated the /boot/initramfs-4.12.4-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.img.
2. journalctl -u nmd.service show a message: unreachable file libwbclient.so.0. After googling I found : cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/; echo /usr/lib64/samba/wbclient >> samba-fix.conf; ldconfig. And then I manage to restart the services nmb and smb.
   Best regards.

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@freaktechnik wrote:

Brief description of the problem

When trying to change the quota from a share (on a hard drive pool that is not the ROOT pool) from the share size to something else, I get the error. I believe when I initially created the share I had assigned a quota to it, but at that time quota were not working. And now I can’t resize that quota?

Error Traceback provided on the Web-UI

            Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/rest_framework_custom/generic_view.py", line 41, in _handle_exception
    yield
  File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/share.py", line 247, in put
    share_pqgroup_assign(share.pqgroup, share)
  File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/fs/btrfs.py", line 1335, in share_pqgroup_assign
    return qgroup_assign(share.qgroup, pqgroup, share.pool.mnt_pt)
  File "/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/fs/btrfs.py", line 1404, in qgroup_assign
    raise e
CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/sbin/btrfs qgroup assign 0/258 2015/43 /mnt2/Main. rc = 1. stdout = ['']. stderr = ['ERROR: unable to assign quota group: File exists', '']

More info

The share is mounted to the nextcloud rockon, and nextcloud reports a volume size of 3.5TB, which sounds about accurate for what I had initially set the quota as. However, according to the rockstor UI there are only about 900GB of data on the share (with a share quota of 9.1 TB; the entire pool), so the nextcloud share free space calculation must be off, too. If I run df via SSH, it agrees that the share has 3.5TB used and is 100% full. It also agrees, though, that the share size is 9.1TB. I believe the listing shows the state of the entire pool, which it somehow seems to think is 100% full, even though only about 30% are used. But that’s only a secondary and tertiary issue, uncovered by the first.

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@Mark_Jackson wrote:

Problem(s) at hand

So, I’ve got many issues, all of which seem to be relating to my “corrupted” HDD. So I’ve 2 hard-drives. 1 of which Rockstor is installed (with its normal shares such as home and root). Then I have my second drive which is partitioned with a few gigabytes set aside for rockons (mainly plex at the moment) and the rest is where my media files are stored.

I came to the conclusion the 1st hard-drive (with Rockstor installed on it) was a corrupted HDD after reading a forum somewhere. I then tried to do the checks on the hdd (using fsck & btrfs etc) but, its impossible to do a check on the mounted HDD (that Rockstor is installed on) without a lot of faffing around (with, what I read, a memory stick or something like that or perhaps it was another computer - too much work really for what I need to do)

Here’s some images of my problems (it may help the devs)
disk error log - p1&p2

CLI errors

Some more problems I’m having, I can’t seem to access sudo, or yum or anything like that (must be because of those faulty drive sectors). Rockstor CLI on the server lets me just sign in but then after a while it starts showing those errors above (or even if i dont sign in - it’ll still show the errors after a while of me using the server). Also after a while of being on the Web-UI also shows this

                                                       502 Bad Gateway
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                          nginx/1.10.2

I assume it can not access nginx consistently. Also after I reboot the server the web-ui will work for a short while again before showing that error again.

ALSO It may be weird (might not) but I am able to access PLEX & my files on the second hdd (through the PLEX rockon) without any trouble (even when these errors are happening). For example 192.168.1.78 doesn’t take me to the Web-UI (it shows the 502 error) but 192.168.1.78:32400 takes me to PLEX and I can play my media. Probably because most of the things plex needs are on the second hdd (but surely the second hdd would access plex via the rockstor hdd - but maybe thats a good sector anyway I digress).

ALSO another issue was ata3.00: status {DRDY}
AND
ata3:SRST failed (errno=-16)

I also can’t even map a network drive in Windows because of this apparently faulty drive.

My Questions

Can I get confirmation that the Rockstor boot drive is the cause of the problems, please?
Also, how would I go about fixing this? Would I be able to remove this drive then install Rockstor on another drive and still be able to access the files on my 2nd drive? Or will the files on the second drive be lost?

I would really appreciate some help on this please.
BTW I’m not a newbie when it comes to computing (in higher education for computing) but I am a newbie to Linux/Unix. So if there is any other way of solving this, I’d appreciate some clear (perhaps in-depth) instructions.

Thanks, in advance.

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@jakeyg wrote:

Hi there

we live in a rural area and have many power outages as a result of poor power supply. Unfortunately for some reason once the restart has occured the rockons fail to start as a service. I go into services and press the on switch and then it begins to work again. Is there anyway to get the service running automagically again.

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@DarkYamik wrote:

Brief description of the problem

Docker daemon won’t start as it indicates that the device or resource are busy while deleting tmp-old folder and creating tmp folder.
I also have problems when stopping Rockons, as they won’t stop. Also If I uninstall a Rockon it will break it and I need to manually delete the container, the image, reboot and then delete the rockon metadata on the DB using the script in /opt/rockstor/bin. I think that this might be due to the device or resource busy.

I used lsof to see if something was writing on the folder, but nothing was being done.

Detailed step by step instructions to reproduce the problem

Restarting Rockstor will break it, the only way of fixing it is restarting until it starts properly. Sometimes the restart just hangs and the server won’t restart until a hard reset is done.

Web-UI screenshot

No web UI error, it can only be seen on output of systemctl status docker -l
Right now I have some services running, will provide screenshot as soon as possible.

Error Traceback provided on the Web-UI

No UI error it just shows that the Rockon service is turned OFF

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