HELP! Freenas 11.1-U2 stuck at zpool set cachefile=...

[IanWor]

Hi all

Hope you can help me here. I rebooted my FreeNas 11.1-U5 system and it is now sitting at:

command: zpool import -c /data/zfs/zpool.cache.saved -o cachefile=none -R /mnt -
command: zpool set cachefile=/data/zfs/zpool.cache DriveSpace

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ian

 

[IanWor]

Not 11.1-U2 it is 11.1-U5

 

[Jailer]

Are you using a USB boot device? Do you have a current copy of your configuration file saved?

 

[IanWor]

Yes to both.

For more info:

System Specs:
Build FreeNAS-11.1-U5
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory 32616MB

Volumes: 2
No encryption

Drives:
9x2TB Raid 2
3x3TB Raid 2

I have rebooted now with a new built installation of FreeNas and am able to get to CLI or Web GUI.

EDIT:

When I go to the volume import option both volumes can be seen.

I am working to pull the config file out of the old boot USB and see if I can then upload that to recover everything.

Having said that, any help, advice, etc., would be more than happily received!

IW

 

[Jailer]

It's not on the USB it's on the pool. Search the forum others have posted where to locate it or ping @danb35 he has posted before where it is. I can't remember and I'm off to bed.

 

[Redcoat]

Config file on the pool is at /data/freenas-v1.db

 

[danb35]

It's in the .system dataset, which by default is put on the first pool you create. It's generally mounted at /var/db/system/configs-longhexnumber.

 

[danb35]

Config file on the pool is at /data/freenas-v1.db

No, that's the one on the boot device.

 

[Redcoat]

No, that's the one on the boot device.

Ouch, that's right - apologies, pulled the wrong note - thx for the correction @danb35

 

[IanWor]

It's in the .system dataset, which by default is put on the first pool you create. It's generally mounted at /var/db/system/configs-longhexnumber.

Would this not be the new one as the boot USB is new and built from scratch as the 'old' boot USB hangs as stated below.

Now that I am thinking about it, I am not sure if getting this and uploading it as the config will help me.

The old boot drive was (is?) working, it is just hanging at command: zpool set cachefile=/data/zfs/zpool.cache DriveSpace.

If I get a config and get it applied to the new FreeNas boot USB that I have created, will it not just hang there also?

Maybe it would be better to import the volumes - doing a zpool import from the CLI gives me the following:

pool: DriveSpace
id: long number
state: ONLINE
status: the pool was last access by another system
action: the pool can be imported using its name or numeric.... etc etc...

config:

DriveSpace ONLINE
raidz2-0 ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
cache
gptid/lots of numbers
gptid/lots of numbers

pool: Super
id: long number
state: ONLINE
status: the pool was last access by another system
action: the pool can be imported using its name or numeric.... etc etc...

config:

Super ONLINE
raidz1-0 ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE
gptid/lots of numbers ONLINE

cache
gptid/lots of numbers

Given that, what do you think would be my best options?

Sure I would have to rebuild 3 VM's but I can do that, and add a couple of users and access across the network, but that is not that much work.

Comments?

Thanks so much all!

IW

 

[IanWor]

OK. I have recovered the drives and will work to re-set everything else up. Looks like no data was lost, and all this will cost me is some time.

I did have an automated backup program running that I could use to recover everything now that I have access to the pools. I will investigate that next.

Lets see....