Uninstalling Plex causes connection timeouts, no GUI access

zthomas9

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Hi, I recently built a simple mirrored NAS using TrueNAS 12 using an old Dell Optiplex 9020 I got for free. Just 16GB of RAM, and I installed two SeaGate Iron Wolf 4TB drives. Everything else is pretty much stock (got this from an office).

I installed TrueNAS onto a simple USB stick, and had everything running fine until I tried to install Plex. The install ran successfully, and a video I was watching about setting it up called for me to select 'Stop' on the plugin before messing with some settings. I did so, and received several --unknown dhcp option value 0x7d messages with timestamps in my console. Suddenly the GUI was altogether inaccessible due to connection timeout. I shut down the machine for the night and tried booting it back up today. I was surprisingly able to login normally, seeming to be that the connection issue resolved itself on reboot. So this time, I tried to uninstall the Plex plugin, as it seems to be the source of the issue. I was met with the same DHCP messages and was again kicked off the GUI due to connection timeout.

What gives here? Should I/can I try to uninstall this plugin from CLI? Is it an issue to do with lack of RAM, or a router issue or something else? Please note that I am just a hobbyist with basically no CLI skills or knowledge. (I'm just ok at following instructions I find online!)

Please let me know if this has been answered elsewhere and I missed it, or if you all have any solutions. Thank you!
 

zthomas9

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as a little extra note, I rebooted again, and it seems that Plex did actually uninstall, but there is still an iocage directory, which was not there prior to plugin installation (I imagine this is normal and a non-issue). Though this need to reboot is still concerning.
 

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