Random rebooting

[JohnFLi]

Possibly your IPMI version is too old for this BIOS upgrade, and that's what the message is "Can't find FID string" is actually indicating. I suggest that you contact SM Support and thell them what you have, ask for a path forward.

That said, it ,ay be that your initianl problem is solved by disabling the Watch Dog at the MB jumper and you decide to live with the present firmwares if SM doesn't give you what you need to fully update your hardware.

Have you considered talking to 45 Drives about the upgrade process?

I will try the jumper thing.....as for 45 Drive, it's so old, they don't really want to talk to me about something that old.....but if i'm buying something new, they are all about that.,

 

[JohnFLi]

Watchdog jumper has been removed AND verified it is disabled in bios.

 

[JohnFLi]

Well, it rebooted again lastnight........so I guess that watch dog wasn't the fix. argh

 

[Redcoat]

Well, it rebooted again lastnight........so I guess that watch dog wasn't the fix. argh

Argh indeed!!!

Do you have watchdogs disabled in TrueNAS also? See last line below.

I do not know what this does if the watchdog jumper and BIOS also have watch dog disabled... if anything, but I have had it there since my FreeNAS Mini days.

 

[JohnFLi]

Argh indeed!!!

Do you have watchdogs disabled in TrueNAS also? See last line below.

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I do not know what this does if the watchdog jumper and BIOS also have watch dog disabled... if anything, but I have had it there since my FreeNAS Mini days.

it is now:

 

[JohnFLi]

Well, I was hoping.....it still rebooted yesterday afternoon....and did it twice

had an unscheduled system reboot. The operating system successfully came back online at Thu Oct 26 15:56:07 2023.​

2023-10-26 15:56:07 (America/Los_Angeles)

had an unscheduled system reboot. The operating system successfully came back online at Thu Oct 26 19:02:24 2023.​

2023-10-26 19:02:24 (America/Los_Angeles)


Even though this system doesn't play a 'major production solution', it still serves as a rather important one for operations.....yet the powers that be don't think it's worth the 8k to replace it.....oh well, I guess it can limp along for as long as possible.

 

[probain]

Have you checked thermals? Would be kind of easy, and easy to miss, to check if you get shutdown due to parts getting to hot?

 

[JohnFLi]

Have you checked thermals? Would be kind of easy, and easy to miss, to check if you get shutdown due to parts getting to hot?

not going to lie....I thought that would be a non-issue, now, not so sure

No idea why it's running so warm.,,,it is in a datacenter that stays in the 60's 24/7
CPU isn't busy

 

[probain]

not going to lie....I thought that would be a non-issue, now, not so sure

No idea why it's running so warm.,,,it is in a datacenter that stays in the 60's 24/7
CPU isn't busy

Naaa. That doesn't look hot at all. Barely even warm. But at least you can rule that out.

 

[winnielinnie]

No idea why it's running so warm

The graph shows it's consistently under 30-C. That's not warm.

 

[probain]

Honestly. Buy a used MB and RAM from ebay, and try swapping parts. Maybe even new PSU's. There are several boards for sale, cheap too. If it turns out that the problem persists through hardware change. Then at least you'll have spares for if/when something breaks due to those mysterious reboots.

 

[JohnFLi]

I am not good at scripting stuff in linux, but how would i be able to have a script that runs after it reboots itself to copy to files?

 

[probain]

I am not good at scripting stuff in linux, but how would i be able to have a script that runs after it reboots itself to copy to files?

I would do it with rsync.
You could then utilize it via using @Reboot in directly in cron.

Code:

@reboot /path/to/rsync options source target 

Or invoke a script @Reboot

Code:

@reboot /path/to/script.sh

 

[JohnFLi]

I would do it with rsync.
You could then utilize it via using @Reboot in directly in cron.

Code:

@reboot /path/to/rsync options source target 

Or invoke a script @Reboot

Code:

@reboot /path/to/script.sh

i like the script.sh option

@reboot /path/to/script.sh

ANy particular format i need to have it in? it is just 2 line that copy items from 1 directory to another, and start a service.

 

[winnielinnie]

There's already a way to do this in the GUI.

Tasks -> Init/Shutdown Scripts -> Add a "Pre-Init" or "Post-Init" script.

 

[JohnFLi]

There's already a way to do this in the GUI.

Tasks -> Init/Shutdown Scripts -> Add a "Pre-Init" or "Post-Init" script.

Great, I will give this a shot and see what happens next time


Thanks all