Problem creating jails

[MrUnknownEMC]

Hi

I have been facing issue creating new jails, it get stuck at "ETA 0.00" and seem to be stuck midway downloading the jail template. I have no problem adding plugins and jail with it. It just i have trouble creating standalone jails, I am using FreeNAS-11.0-U3 (c5dcf4416), normally it would give me a error if it fail creating the jail but it say stuck and after a while the process tarball is plugging CPU at 100% and reboot fixes this issue. Not sure if should create a bug report as i just updated to U3 and seem to have same issues, and changelog didn't mention much about jail fixes.

 

[joeschmuck]

I have not upgraded to U3 just yet but have you rebooted your FreeNAS machine? Also, please provide some basic system specs.

How full is your pool and is your jail on the pool?

Are you seeing a lot of swap space being used? Is the disk activity high?

Have you tried to roll back to U2 (or your previous version) and try to add a jail?

If you can say with certainty that this appears to be a U3 issue, I'd file a bug report.

 

[MrUnknownEMC]

I have not upgraded to U3 just yet but have you rebooted your FreeNAS machine? Also, please provide some basic system specs.

How full is your pool and is your jail on the pool?

Are you seeing a lot of swap space being used? Is the disk activity high?

Have you tried to roll back to U2 (or your previous version) and try to add a jail?

If you can say with certainty that this appears to be a U3 issue, I'd file a bug report.

I had issues also back in U2, my pool is not even close to full.

My disk activity is normal, nothing extremely high. I have still have 100% swap unused.

I mean i can add plugins without any issues and use that jail that plugin created but i just want to create a jail to bare bone, do you know any of plugin which have a semi bare bone install?

 

[joeschmuck]

I'm more than happy to help you if you would provide what I've asked for.

1) System Specs (part of our forum rules)
2) How full is your pool? (output of zfs list)

One additional question:
3) When was the last time (freenas version) that you did a clean installation? Some people have had issues with jails because upgrading through various FreeNAS versions did not work quite right and were forced to perform a clean installation/delete jails. Not saying you would have to, just looking at the possibility.

Here is a possible fix for you and what I'd recommend as the first step...
1) Stop all your jails.
2) Delete your jails. Since you said you cannot create any, you shouldn't have any. This is not plugins, just the jails.
3) Delete the directory within your jails directory called ".warden-template-standard".
4) Now try to create a jail.

What this will do is delete the old jail data and force a new download.

 

[MrUnknownEMC]

I'm more than happy to help you if you would provide what I've asked for.

1) System Specs (part of our forum rules)
2) How full is your pool? (output of zfs list)

One additional question:
3) When was the last time (freenas version) that you did a clean installation? Some people have had issues with jails because upgrading through various FreeNAS versions did not work quite right and were forced to perform a clean installation/delete jails. Not saying you would have to, just looking at the possibility.

Here is a possible fix for you and what I'd recommend as the first step...
1) Stop all your jails.
2) Delete your jails. Since you said you cannot create any, you shouldn't have any. This is not plugins, just the jails.
3) Delete the directory within your jails directory called ".warden-template-standard".
4) Now try to create a jail.

What this will do is delete the old jail data and force a new download.

1)
FX-6300
16GB DDR3 ECC
2x4TB Seagate Ironwolf
2x2TB WD REDs

2)

Code:

root@freenas:~ # zfs list
NAME													   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
freenas-boot											  4.33G  10.1G	64K  none
freenas-boot/ROOT										 4.31G  10.1G	29K  none
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.0-RC3								12.3M  10.1G   748M  /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.0-RELEASE							10.8M  10.1G   747M  /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.0-U1								 10.1M  10.1G   747M  /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.0-U2								 11.2M  10.1G   750M  /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.0-U3								 4.27G  10.1G   739M  /
freenas-boot/ROOT/Initial-Install							1K  10.1G   637M  legacy
freenas-boot/ROOT/default								 2.10M  10.1G   640M  legacy
freenas-boot/grub										 6.28M  10.1G  6.28M  legacy
volume1													944G   854G   451M  /mnt/volume1
volume1/.system										   33.0M   854G  2.08M  legacy
volume1/.system/configs-84b87062ddab492693a19600657249d0  27.0M   854G  27.0M  legacy
volume1/.system/cores									 1.72M   854G  1.72M  legacy
volume1/.system/rrd-84b87062ddab492693a19600657249d0		88K   854G	88K  legacy
volume1/.system/samba4									 616K   854G   616K  legacy
volume1/.system/syslog-84b87062ddab492693a19600657249d0   1.57M   854G  1.57M  legacy
volume1/NextCloud										  176K   854G	88K  /mnt/volume1/NextCloud
volume1/NextCloud/db										88K   854G	88K  /mnt/volume1/NextCloud/db
volume1/VM ISO											8.80G   854G  8.80G  /mnt/volume1/VM ISO
volume1/jails											 27.0G   854G  17.6M  /mnt/volume1/jails
volume1/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail				  543M   854G   539M  /mnt/volume1/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail
volume1/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail-10.3-x64		 473M   854G   469M  none
volume1/jails/.warden-template-standard				   1016M   854G  1016M  /mnt/volume1/jails/.warden-template-standard
volume1/jails/.warden-template-standard-10.3-x64		  1.61G   854G  1.60G  none
volume1/jails/plexmediaserver_1						   16.9G   854G  15.5G  /mnt/volume1/jails/plexmediaserver_1
volume1/jails/plexpy									  1.80G   854G  2.30G  /mnt/volume1/jails/plexpy
volume1/jails/resilio_1									178M   854G   707M  /mnt/volume1/jails/resilio_1
volume1/jails/sonarr_1									2.34G   854G  2.20G  /mnt/volume1/jails/sonarr_1
volume1/jails/transmission_1							   704M   854G  1.07G  /mnt/volume1/jails/transmission_1
volume1/jails/unbound_DNS								 1.49G   854G  2.00G  /mnt/volume1/jails/unbound_DNS
volume1/media											  908G   854G   908G  /mnt/volume1/media
volume2												   1.55T  1.96T	96K  /mnt/volume2
volume2/FTP												 88K  1.96T	88K  /mnt/volume2/FTP
volume2/Transmission									  29.4G  1.96T  22.7G  /mnt/volume2/Transmission
volume2/Transmission/webdav							   6.60G  1.96T  6.60G  /mnt/volume2/Transmission/webdav
volume2/backup											 727G   117G   683G  /mnt/volume2/backup
volume2/backup/time-machine							   43.7G   256G  43.7G  /mnt/volume2/backup/time-machine
volume2/photo											 46.8G  1.96T  46.8G  /mnt/volume2/photo
volume2/steam											  494G  1.96T   494G  /mnt/volume2/steam
volume2/storage											292G  1.96T   104K  /mnt/volume2/storage
volume2/storage/David									 46.6G  1.96T  46.6G  /mnt/volume2/storage/David
volume2/storage/Jack									  46.3G  1.96T  46.3G  /mnt/volume2/storage/Jack
volume2/storage/Resources								  148G  1.96T   148G  /mnt/volume2/storage/Resources
volume2/storage/Sync									  21.6G  1.96T  21.6G  /mnt/volume2/storage/Sync
volume2/storage/Wendy									 29.5G  1.96T  29.5G  /mnt/volume2/storage/Wendy

3) The reinstall/clean install is when i did clean install of freenas 10 and upgraded to 11 straight after before setting up my new array and restoring my existing one.

I don't really want to reinstall my jails as later this year i hoping to grab some 60GB SSD as my jail/temp drive, and I would reinstall all my jails than, as i have tones of stuff in jail which at the moment i don't really want to reconfigure all of it.

 

[joeschmuck]

I don't really want to reinstall my jails as later this year i hoping to grab some 60GB SSD as my jail/temp drive, and I would reinstall all my jails than, as i have tones of stuff in jail which at the moment i don't really want to reconfigure all of it.

Fair enough. If you can't delete your jails (just the jails, not plugins) and delete the warden-standard-template then I think you will remain in this predicament until then. And you of course know that you can use any already established jail and install more software on it so you should be okay until you are aready to migrate to the new SSDs.

Good luck