Plugins are failing to start

[JCasanova]

Hey everyone, been at this all weekend.

I'm on my 3rd install of FreeNAS at this point and it's all been due to plugins failing to start. The only two plugins that I have been working with through the 3 installs are BT Sync and Plex Media Server. They both invariably fail around the same time. I know permissions have a lot to do with it and this third time around I haven't touched the permissions in anyway related to the jails that the plugins create. After the problem arose, I even went further to chase down the "insecure" permissions that are mentioned in /var/log/messages to no avail. plexmediaserver_1 su: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is world writable seems to be my dead-end - fixing the permissions there yields no new messages in the log file.

I'm still plagued with the eventual issue documented in this thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-pam-d-su-insecure-ownership-or-permis.17466/

What am I doing wrong?

 

[dlavigne]

It looks like there are currently 3 bug reports about this: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7155#note-7.

 

[cyberjock]

What's your hardware?

 

[JCasanova]

I have it fixed for now. I'm being very careful with permissions. I haven't rebooted in a bit - I may try a reboot tonight and see if it breaks anything. But as of right now I have everything working and I have been able to restart all of the plug-ins that I have installed (Plex, BT Sync, Couch Potato and Transmission). Also got iSCSI working.

What's your hardware?

Intel Core2Duo E8400 OCed to 3.6 GHz
8 GB RAM
FreeNAS installed to USB solid state "thumbdrive"
2x 2TB drives in stripe (4 TB drives will be replicated to in a few days for crude redundancy)

Need anything else?

 

[cyberjock]

You have the minimum for FreeNAS. That 8GB of RAM limit is without plugins/jails. So I can't say I'm too surprised. I'm just hoping something didn't happen and it started and crashed with some kind of "out of RAM" condition that left your plugins non-functional.

 

[JCasanova]

That motherboard is maxed out on RAM, sadly. Here's the latest screenshot of memory and swap consumption:

It's been running good for the past 24 hours, even with a hefty library loaded into Plex and a regular flow of media viewing, a large queue in Transmission and a VMWare ESXi host running about 15 guests that are stored on a zvol. It COULD run better but this isn't a production environment so I'm not going to push for it. Hopefully I'll be able to build a bigger better machine to run FreeNAS in early 2015. I really like what I have seen thus far.

The real test will be the reboot later. I'll report back. I think I just goofed on permissions hard.

 

[cyberjock]

Just a word of advice.. 175MB of free RAM is a dangerous place to be.