Added new users and broke all the things!!!

[Z3RO]

Hi all,

After doing some web searching, looking behind the shed and in the neighbors couch, I look to you fine folks for the answers I was unable to find.
I have been running the latest release FreeNas version 11.2 u4 or there about and previous version without problems.
This leads me to today where I tried to do the following:

Problem:
Add 2 new users and a group and changed the namw of a previous group.
While i was mucking about with the permissions, the WEB UI began lagging and became non responsive, to which I had to restart.
When the system came back to life the following issue appeared on the screen attached to the FN box - Console setup, under the 11 config options where your IP should be, I get this:
"The Web interface could not be accessed. Please check network configuration."

Needless to say, I can't access the FN web UI.

When I try access the web UI i get:
"404 not Found
nginx"

All my mapped drives and sub folders are still accessible via Windows network etc. (\\freenas)

I can ping the FN box and get a response.

I tried to SSH into the FN box with hopes and dreams, but alas, I noticed an issue:
"Welcome to FreeNAS
Could not chdir to home directory /nonexistent: No such file or directory"

I used my user access, not root (root access disabled via ssh)

I did an ifconfig from SSH as per below:

Code:

% ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether 4c:cc:6a:f4:ae:2e
hwaddr 4c:cc:6a:f4:ae:2e
inet 192.168.1.233 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet 192.168.1.235 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.235
inet 192.168.1.234 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.234
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
groups: lo
%

192.168.1.233 is my FN box (192.168.1.234 and 192.168.1.235 are a couple emby servers)

I did change the /nonexistant of the two new users to something else but changed back before all this happened.
I also deleted the two new users via FN shell. (last action before posting here)

If you could shed some light onto this issue I would be grateful!!!!!

My system is as follows:

• Motherboard: MSI H81I
• CPU: Intel I5-4430 LGA1150
• RAM: 8gb Corsair Vengeance 1866 MHz
• Hard drives: 2 x 4 tb wd red in mirror config, 1 x 120GB ssd OCZ for boot
• Nothing else added.

 

[garm]

So, what group did you rename?

 

[Z3RO]

Hi garm.

Group rename:

media ----> Media_Group

 

[garm]

Did you save a config before you did that?

 

[Z3RO]

I have got a config file saved from just before the last update. Which is fine in my case.
Are you thinking a config restore or something along those lines?

 

[garm]

No, you need to reinstall FreeNAS and then restore the config.

 

[Z3RO]

Ag, I was hoping there was something that I was overlooking.

Thank you for your time, garm.

 

[garm]

Don’t manipulate groups you didn’t create, you don’t know what dependencies you break

 

[Z3RO]

Thank you for the tip garm. Appreciate your help.

Just to close this out. I did a reinstall and all is nearly as it should be, a couple tweaks and it will be sorted.

I ran into a issue during the reinstall:

"dd: /dev/ada0: Operation Not Permitted"

Used the following to sort it out:

Code:

# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m count=1

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m oseek=`diskinfo ada0 | awk '{print int($3 / (1024*1024)) - 4;}'`

Install worked like a charm thereafter.

Cheers!