FreeNas 11.3 Issues booting middlewared.plugins.cache

[DanielJC]

Hi all,
First time poster and a bit of a novice at freenas.
We've had a freenas box running without issue for around 6months now and recently powered down the box while we were away for a week. We returned to find the box hanging on boot at the following screen:

CTRL +C continues to the following text:

Any help would be great!

The HW setup is:
Athlon 3000G
Asus PRIME A320I-K
8GB 2666 RAM
Boot drive M.2 Western digital green, 120GB (WDS120G2G0B)

Many thanks in advance.
Dan

 

[Ericloewe]

Western digital green, 120GB

Those are known to corrupt data when used with FreeBSD. There's no smoking gun in your screenshots, but it seems at least fairly likely.
Where you are now, I'd start by running zpool scrub freenas-boot. Wait for the scrub to conclude and monitor the results with zpool status freenas-boot. If you get a bunch of checksum errors, you'll want to acquire a different SSD.

 

[DanielJC]

Hi. Looks like your right here. Ran as described above and this was the result.

Will be purchasing another m.2. Any suggestions here? Was thinking a Samsung 250G M.2 SSD 860 EVO?

Hope I can figure out how to migrate the raid pool to the new setup. Any guides out there I could reference?

Cheers, Dan

 

[Ericloewe]

There's really nothing special to it: reinstall to the new boot medium and import your config.

 

[DanielJC]

Sorted... to a degree. I've reinstalled on the new m.2 and imported the existing pool. Unfortunately I cant for the life of me locate the config save file. however have just re-configured the new install. Thanks for the help.