Intermittently not seeing plugins in the tree menu

[pinoy83]

The problem is when I load the Freenas Web GUI the tree menu for the plugins doesn't list all the plugins. Sometimes one would appear, sometimes two but never all of them.
I have 4 plugins installed altogether (i.e. Transmission, Couchpotato, Sickbeard, and Sabnzbd).
Rebooting Freenas doesn't resolve the issue either. In addition, going to Plugins >Installed also generates an error and starting the plugins does not want to work. However, after trying a lot of times (like more than 30 times refreshing the page), I manage to start some of the plugins. Once it started, the plugins may not appear in the Plugins tree menu but the service works as intended.

I can't say exactly when it started but it is within the last 2 weeks. I suspect that it was after I applied latest updates that the issue started happening but I cannot say for sure.

I'm currently testing to see what would happen if I just reinstall the plugins and set them up again from scratch.

Help would be appreciated if someone could at least point me to the the issue. Thank you in advance.


System Summary:
Build FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509282017
Platform Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1610T @ 2.30GHz
Memory 10051MB
Load Average 0.45, 0.34, 0.31


This is what appears in the dmesg when I try to list the plugins via Top Navigation bar by clicking Plugins > Installed:

Code:

Oct 15 21:37:44 Freenas manage.py: [plugins.utils:92] Couldn't retrieve http://10.11.6.3/plugins/sickbeard/3/_s/status: No JSON object could be decoded

This is what appears in the dmesg when I try to list the plugins via the Left navigation tree under the Plugins category:

Code:

Oct 15 21:38:30 Freenas manage.py: [freeadmin.navtree:573] Couldn't retrieve http://10.11.6.3/plugins/couchpotato/2/_s/treemenu: timed out
Oct 15 21:38:30 Freenas manage.py: [freeadmin.navtree:573] Couldn't retrieve http://10.11.6.3/plugins/sickbeard/3/_s/treemenu: timed out

I have verified the install and the result was:
The following Inconsistencies were found in your Current Install:
List of Checksum Mismatches:
/conf/base/etc/resolv.conf

The contents of resolve.conf is simply:

Code:

search mydomain.info
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
nameserver 61.88.88.88

Here is the full dmesg: http://pastebin.com/5FRqR5UB
Here is the full messages: http://pastebin.com/pZzYDQPs

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I believe this is caused by the jail losing the ability to route connections. You could test this by pinging your computer from the jail.

One thing I always do for my jails is disable VIMAGE, and assign them to an interface.

 

[pinoy83]

Hi Joshua,

Thanks. I disable VIMAGE and restarted the jails and I noticed an immediate improvement. There is no more hit and miss when loading the plugins in the Plugins tree menu or the Plugins tab/section. Though I must note that this issue only started recently for me...

Thanks again!

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Hi Joshua,

Thanks. I disable VIMAGE and restarted the jails and I noticed an immediate improvement. There is no more hit and miss when loading the plugins in the Plugins tree menu or the Plugins tab/section. Though I must note that this issue only started recently for me...

Thanks again!

Great! I always gotta disable VIMAGE, I think cause I got two assigned interfaces and need to specify which one actually can route to other clients