NAS4Free 11.1.0.4.5403 released (FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-P9)

[zoon01]

The NAS4Free Team is pleased to announce the release of version 11.1.0.4.5403 - Atomics

Download build 11.1.0.4.5403
Please Read always the readme_11.1 file

BUILD 11.1.0.4.5403
Older 11.1 releases pulled offline and no longer supported!

Changes after release 11.1.0.4.5321
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- Upgrade to FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-P9.
- Update translations.
- Add UEFI option to zroot.
- Add Boot Environments avail at loader prompt.
- WebGUI code & framework improvements.
- Upgrade zoneinfo to 2018d.
- Upgrade php to 7.2.4.
- Upgrade syncthing to 0.14.46.
- Fix recreation of loader.conf.local after restore.

Note:
- Make a new backup of your system configuration and store this on safe location, the system config.xml has been upgraded!
- Clear your browser's cache to avoid display issues after upgrade when coming from older release like past 11.0 series.

Enjoy!

Regards,
The NAS4Free Team

[jamaroney]

Embedded version installed just fine - thanks!

[raulfg3]

ZFSonRoot & Embeded updated just fine. thanks.

[provels]

Embedded upgraded fine on my server, a unit that HP EOL'd in 2006...
Great job as always, thanks!

[JoseMR]

NAS4Free RootOnZFS users upgrading prior to version 5403, please READ Here

[Victek]

Hello all, embedeed version updated, after two hours and some test works fine.

Thank you for the new release.

[jerryone]

Hi, Upgraded just fine.
1) But there is some strange things with my SSD disk is reporting after this upgrade wrong temp. The drive is cold as ice because of the fans.
2) E-mail reporting of high temperatures of the drives i do not recived any other report is coming on e-mail. Thx

Later print screen the right temp!

[zoon01]

Hi, Upgraded just fine.
1) But there is some strange things with my SSD disk is reporting after this upgrade wrong temp. The drive is cold as ice because of the fans.
2) E-mail reporting of high temperatures of the drives i do not recived any other report is coming on e-mail. Thx

Later print screen the right temp!

To me the top screenshot Diagnostics > Information > Disks your ssd temp looks fine.
I do agree it looks not good in second screen, but extended gui is not what we created, please contact its creator to update/fix it's code.

[jerryone]

Hi, Upgraded just fine.
1) But there is some strange things with my SSD disk is reporting after this upgrade wrong temp. The drive is cold as ice because of the fans.
2) E-mail reporting of high temperatures of the drives i do not recived any other report is coming on e-mail. Thx

Later print screen the right temp!

To me the top screenshot Diagnostics > Information > Disks looks fine.
the bottom one with extended gui is not what we created, please contact its creator to update/fix it's code.

Thanks for fast replay. I was thinking until this point of this release i didn't have this situation. that why i was looking also in other part of the GUI ! I didn't throw rocks . For me is good also like this may be in the near future this will be resolved. Thank you for all your great work !

[provels]

Thanks for fast replay. I was thinking until this point of this release i didn't have this situation. that why i was looking also in other part of the GUI ! I didn't throw rocks . For me is good also like this may be in the near future this will be resolved. Thank you for all your great work !

Did you disable Extended GUI before upgrading? Anytime I left it enabled, I had trouble. Disable/Upgrade/Enable. HTH

[jerryone]

Yes!!! Every time befor upgrade! Is like a rutine this one

[maarten]

Installed everything over again, seems fine now.

*** WARNING *** FINCH USERS DO NOT INSTALL THIS RELEASE !!
Do not install when using Finch jails. Finch won't start with this release. Error that boot disk cannot mount rw. Caused me a lot of trouble.

[maarten]

Where can I download previous version (11.1.0.4.5313) ? Files seems to have disappeared. Need to downgrade to previous verions since this release has serious bug (Finch jails won't start). Advice to developers: keep previous version available for download, so when new release has bugs, one has option to downgrade.

[JoseMR]

Advice to developers: keep previous version available for download, so when new release has bugs, one has option to downgrade.

While your advice makes sense for other reasons, I will disagree on the "new release has bugs", FYI about FINCH project: This project is deprecated / abandoned. and that is not my word, but the author one.

NAS4Free is moving on with latest FreeBSD updates and security patches, hence older/deprecated software may work, or will not work at all in a sudden.

My advise is that the user need to keep a copy of a previous version stored in his/her computer for this same reasons, and is just "common sense", additionally, I recommend to use the standard FreeBSD jails since they will be supported for quite a long time.

Regards

[maarten]

Thanks, I understand. Everything works again...

[wbond]

I ran into an issue while trying to move a Nas4free system to 11.1.0.4.5403. The system has been running 11.1.0.4.5054 embedded for some months and to upgrade I installed 11.1.0.4.5403 to a new USB and decided to try the RootOnZFS option to a stripe of one drive. The install went fine and I was able to boot from the new USB drive with no problem. I restored a backup of the cfg and everything seemed fine except that the iSCSI target service wasn't running. Trying to restart the service didn't work, rebooting made no difference either.

I plugged the old USB drive in and the system booted 11.1.0.no problem and the iSCSI service started normally. The old USB was using the default embedded install with UFS. I then reinstalled 11.1.0.4.5403 to the new USB drive using the default embedded UFS option and after restoring the cfg file everything including iSCSI service came up normally.

Hardware is an HP N54L with 3 WD red 3tb data drives, booting from the internal USB drive. I didn't find much of interest in the logs whenthe iSCSI service wouldn't start except the following:

Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: istgt.c:2805:main: ***ERROR*** istgt_lu_init() failed
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: istgt_lu.c:2168:istgt_lu_init: ***ERROR*** LU1: lu_init_unit() failed
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: istgt_lu.c:2093:istgt_lu_init_unit: ***ERROR*** LU1: lu_disk_init() failed
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: istgt_lu_disk.c: 645:istgt_lu_disk_init: ***ERROR*** LU1: LUN0: open error(errno=2)
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: using host atomic
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: using kqueue
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: normal mode
Apr 30 19:50:40 hpn54l istgt[1976]: istgt version 0.5 (20150713)

If anyone has any idea what may have caused the problem I'd be interested in hearing it. I'm fine running the system on the default embedded install with UFS, so it's not a show stopper for me.

thanks.

[JoseMR]

I ran into an issue while trying to move a Nas4free system to 11.1.0.4.5403. The system has been running 11.1.0.4.5054 embedded for some months and to upgrade I installed 11.1.0.4.5403 to a new USB and decided to try the RootOnZFS option to a stripe of one drive.
...

Sorry to hear that you encounter issues trying out RootOnZFS, however NAS4Free either Full UFS or ZFS is not designed to run from a USB drive, unless is a branded USB3.0 NAND Flash device, and still non recommended at all for running native installations since write intensive, also the funny USB odd behaviors on some hardware, that said NAS4Free RootOnZFS should be treat as a native FreeBSD install and should be run from HDD/SSD.

Additionally, I've found that NAS4Free WebGUI still cannot fight the disk metadata phenomenons, for example I've installed NAS4Free Embedded, then later installed NAS4Free RootOnZFS and the WebGUI think my ZFS install is UFS lol, even manually destroying the disk from the CLI with "gpart destroy -F adaX", the only way I could get rid from this funny event is to zero-fill the whole disk unfortunately, still looking into this.
EDIT: I've fixed this stale metadata issue by raising the dd count to (16384) during disk cleanups, will be available to next release, sorry inconvenience, I must overlooked.

P.S. I've tested iSCSI Target in latest NAS4Free RootOnZFS and it started and go available as expected:

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May 3 06:30:56	nas4free	root: zfs create -o checksum=on -o compression=on -o dedup=off -o logbias=latency -o primarycache=all -o secondarycache=all -o sync=standard -o volblocksize=8K -o volmode=default -V 1G 'zroot/zvol'
May 3 06:33:36	nas4free	istgt[3048]: istgt version 0.5 (20150713)
May 3 06:33:36	nas4free	istgt[3048]: normal mode
May 3 06:33:36	nas4free	istgt[3048]: using kqueue
May 3 06:33:36	nas4free	istgt[3048]: using host atomic
May 3 06:33:36	nas4free	root: iscsi_target service started

[arghdubya]

Test install to generate Headless for RootonZFS using Dell OptiPlex 380 fails...

Embedded install on HD worked fine. (UFS)

With Advanced ZFS Installer (RootonZFS) I get a prompt for Install Media Source location after warning on erasing ada0
--typing da0 doesn't help. It flashes:
Mounting CD/USB Drive
Mounting LiveUSB Drive
and returns to Select Install Media Source.
(using defaults and choosing Stripe (one 3tb drive))

[ernie]

Hello
Are they always issues with extensions as nas4free version is now on a new version of php ?
I am thinking to:
- OBI
- Plex
- btsync
- extended Gui

Thanks

[loozhengyuan]

I'm running nas4free virtualised and having some errors with RRD graphs in the logs:

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May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_freq.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float
May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_temp.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float

This happens every 10mins. I have another setup running on baremetal and that works fine, so i'm wondering if a virtualised CPU has to do with this error output?

[crest]

Hello ernie,

Hello
Are they always issues with extensions as nas4free version is now on a new version of php ?
I am thinking to:
- OBI
- Plex
- btsync
- extended Gui

Thanks

No, the above mentioned extensions had no issues with PHP 7.2 (see also here https://nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.p ... 189#p69900).
The only one which is bhyve has problems -> https://nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.p ... 632#p84632

Regards
crest

[crest]

Hello loozhengyuan,

I'm running nas4free virtualised and having some errors with RRD graphs in the logs:

Code: Select all

May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_freq.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float
May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_temp.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float

This happens every 10mins. I have another setup running on baremetal and that works fine, so i'm wondering if a virtualised CPU has to do with this error output?

On virtualised systems most likely Freebsd don't recongnize the CPU frequency and temperature, you can try the following commands

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sysctl -n dev.cpu.0.freq
sysctl -q -n dev.cpu.0.temperature

and I assume they will return no results.

Regards
crest

[loozhengyuan]

Hello loozhengyuan,

I'm running nas4free virtualised and having some errors with RRD graphs in the logs:

Code: Select all

May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_freq.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float
May 6 23:05:05	root: ERROR: /mnt/data/system/rrd/cpu_temp.rrd: Function update_pdp_prep, case DST_GAUGE - Cannot convert '' to float

This happens every 10mins. I have another setup running on baremetal and that works fine, so i'm wondering if a virtualised CPU has to do with this error output?

On virtualised systems most likely Freebsd don't recongnize the CPU frequency and temperature, you can try the following commands

Code: Select all

sysctl -n dev.cpu.0.freq
sysctl -q -n dev.cpu.0.temperature

and I assume they will return no results.

Regards
crest

Ah, alright so it was indeed being virtualised that caused the problem.

[loozhengyuan]

I also realised that whenever I synchronise my ZFS config, the 'Show Used/Avail' option that I checked goes away. Is it designed like that or is this a bug?

[raulfg3]

I also realised that whenever I synchronise my ZFS config, the 'Show Used/Avail' option that I checked goes away. Is it designed like that or is this a bug?

not sure, can you clear your explorer cache to be sure?

Control+F5

[ms49434]

I also realised that whenever I synchronise my ZFS config, the 'Show Used/Avail' option that I checked goes away. Is it designed like that or is this a bug?

You found a bug.

[ernie]

Hello ernie,

Hello
Are they always issues with extensions as nas4free version is now on a new version of php ?
I am thinking to:
- OBI
- Plex
- btsync
- extended Gui

Thanks

No, the above mentioned extensions had no issues with PHP 7.2 (see also here https://nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.p ... 189#p69900).
The only one which is bhyve has problems -> https://nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.p ... 632#p84632

Regards
crest

Thanks Crest

[JoseMR]

Test install to generate Headless for RootonZFS using Dell OptiPlex 380 fails...

Embedded install on HD worked fine. (UFS)

With Advanced ZFS Installer (RootonZFS) I get a prompt for Install Media Source location after warning on erasing ada0
--typing da0 doesn't help. It flashes:
Mounting CD/USB Drive
Mounting LiveUSB Drive
and returns to Select Install Media Source.
(using defaults and choosing Stripe (one 3tb drive))

Hello sorry late, thanks for posting this issue on Dell OptiPlex 380, this may be caused due failure to read the media labels correctly on your system, please can you post output for "glabel list" and "glabel status" after booting LiveMedia?

Regards