TrueNAS SCALE 22.12-BETA.1 has been released!

[DeletedUser67652]

We are pleased to announce the release of TrueNAS SCALE 22.12-BETA.1 (Bluefin). This BETA release has several bug fixes and improvements and a few new features. See the Release Notes below for more details.

Release Notes: https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scale22.12/#2212-beta1
Download: https://download.truenas.com/TrueNAS-SCALE-Bluefin-BETA/22.12-BETA.1/

Thanks for trying TrueNAS SCALE 22.12-BETA.1, and as always, we appreciate your feedback!

 

[Kris Moore]

Exciting! Really looking forward to hearing feedback on the new Storage UI pages, hope everybody enjoys the improvements as much as we are.

 

[cwagz]

Does this provide any improvement to ARC size when running several VMs? I have 128GB RAM and my 22.02.3 system seems to have settled out with an ARC of 18.9GB. I have 40GB of RAM assigned to VMs. It seems like the target value the system uses gets modified as the system runs since any overrides I make end up being reset without a reboot. I also understand that overrides may not be safe so I have just been letting the system manage ARC size.

 

[truecharts]

For clearity we want to highlight that our support staff is not accepting tickets when people run into TrueCharts related issues on Bluefin.
Though we do appreciate reports on our development channel on Discord :)

 

[Kris Moore]

Does this provide any improvement to ARC size when running several VMs? I have 128GB RAM and my 22.02.3 system seems to have settled out with an ARC of 18.9GB. I have 40GB of RAM assigned to VMs. It seems like the target value the system uses gets modified as the system runs since any overrides I make end up being reset without a reboot. I also understand that overrides may not be safe so I have just been letting the system manage ARC size.

Unsure. I know by default ARC is going to be capped at 1/2 memory, so in your case it should grow to 64GB, leaving that other 40GB and 24GB for your VM's and services respectively. If you want to give Bluefin a shot, this would be good data to have, if you see it not behaving properly, file a ticket, since we'd like to fix this sort of thing in BETA/RC cycles.

 

[cwagz]

Unsure. I know by default ARC is going to be capped at 1/2 memory, so in your case it should grow to 64GB, leaving that other 40GB and 24GB for your VM's and services respectively. If you want to give Bluefin a shot, this would be good data to have, if you see it not behaving properly, file a ticket, since we'd like to fix this sort of thing in BETA/RC cycles.

I did the update to 22.12 B1 last night. My ARC has been at 18.9GB for the 22 days prior to the update. I just checked about 12 hours after installing the Bluefin beta and ARC is 62.9GB!

The only issue I seem to have is the Plex app will no longer start. It just stays at Deploying.

 

[Kris Moore]

Well, thats good to hear on the ARC size then! For the Plex app, do you get any errors or log messages from it? We'll need a debug or more details to troubleshoot that one specifically.

 

[cwagz]

Well, thats good to hear on the ARC size then! For the Plex app, do you get any errors or log messages from it? We'll need a debug or more details to troubleshoot that one specifically.

Not sure what to make of this. When I hit start it will say Deploying, then Stopped, then Deploying forever...

Code:

2022-09-04T00:32:47.766994515Z [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
2022-09-04T00:32:47.801921627Z [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
2022-09-04T00:32:47.802745735Z [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
2022-09-04T00:32:47.804069716Z [fix-attrs.d] done.
2022-09-04T00:32:47.804630209Z [cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
2022-09-04T00:32:47.805460829Z [cont-init.d] 40-plex-first-run: executing...
2022-09-04T00:32:47.883988533Z Plex Media Server first run setup complete
2022-09-04T00:32:47.884430482Z [cont-init.d] 40-plex-first-run: exited 0.
2022-09-04T00:32:47.885162454Z [cont-init.d] 45-plex-hw-transcode-and-connected-tuner: executing...
2022-09-04T00:32:47.889273648Z [cont-init.d] 45-plex-hw-transcode-and-connected-tuner: exited 0.
2022-09-04T00:32:47.889882423Z [cont-init.d] 50-plex-update: executing...
2022-09-04T00:32:48.514642791Z Attempting to upgrade to: 1.28.2.6151-914ddd2b3
2022-09-04T00:32:48.524424462Z   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
2022-09-04T00:32:48.524550141Z                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
2022-09-04T00:32:49.028980146Z
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100   190    0   190    0     0    376      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   376
2022-09-04T00:32:50.333112301Z
 21 80.7M   21 16.9M    0     0  16.6M      0  0:00:04  0:00:01  0:00:03 16.6M
100 80.7M  100 80.7M    0     0  44.6M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 80.6M
2022-09-04T00:32:50.396138284Z Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
2022-09-04T00:32:50.425064807Z (Reading database ... 7274 files and directories currently installed.)
2022-09-04T00:32:50.425766991Z Preparing to unpack /tmp/plexmediaserver.deb ...
2022-09-04T00:32:50.448367983Z PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
2022-09-04T00:32:50.460569558Z PlexMediaServer install: Docker detected.  Preinstallation validation not required.
2022-09-04T00:32:50.465978474Z Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.28.2.6151-914ddd2b3) ...
2022-09-04T00:32:58.911583655Z Setting up plexmediaserver (1.28.2.6151-914ddd2b3) ...
2022-09-04T00:32:58.919684657Z PlexMediaServer install: Docker detected. Postinstallation tasks not required. Continuing.
2022-09-04T00:32:58.935813183Z [cont-init.d] 50-plex-update: exited 0.
2022-09-04T00:32:58.936542517Z [cont-init.d] done.
2022-09-04T00:32:58.937230772Z [services.d] starting services
2022-09-04T00:32:58.942958142Z [services.d] done.
2022-09-04T00:32:58.944085987Z Starting Plex Media Server.
2022-09-04T00:33:11.540624496Z Critical: libusb_init failed
2022-09-05T00:33:19.014180175Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-05T00:33:19.426130864Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-06T00:33:19.418488003Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-06T00:33:19.825468676Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-07T00:33:19.870216739Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-07T00:33:20.263173888Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-08T00:33:20.289535185Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-08T00:33:20.686123263Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-09T00:33:20.744302889Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-09T00:33:21.162486900Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-10T00:33:21.152266798Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-10T00:38:21.130610673Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-11T00:33:21.623141025Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-11T00:38:21.559282057Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-12T00:33:22.025559334Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-12T00:38:22.009013461Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-13T00:33:22.457400945Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-13T00:38:22.442185048Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-14T00:33:22.931334099Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-14T00:38:22.898361774Z The '--scan' operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
2022-09-14T02:53:28.247848807Z [cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts...
2022-09-14T02:53:28.258274895Z [cont-finish.d] done.
2022-09-14T02:53:28.266659823Z [s6-finish] waiting for services.
2022-09-14T02:53:28.454902459Z Stopping Plex Media Server.
2022-09-14T02:53:28.476246114Z kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
2022-09-14T02:53:31.265057215Z s6-svwait: fatal: timed out
2022-09-14T02:53:31.466611420Z [s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.
2022-09-14T02:53:34.472513636Z [s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting.

 

[Kris Moore]

Judging from the timestamps it almost look as if Plex did start properly, but got shutdown later on. Did you check to see if Plex was up after a couple of minutes? I.E. by checking it directly, not through the UI?

Either way, it might be a bug in the TrueNAS side where its not reporting the up state properly. Can you open a ticket for us?

 

[cwagz]

Judging from the timestamps it almost look as if Plex did start properly, but got shutdown later on. Did you check to see if Plex was up after a couple of minutes? I.E. by checking it directly, not through the UI?

Either way, it might be a bug in the TrueNAS side where its not reporting the up state properly. Can you open a ticket for us?

I didn’t actually try to use it. I will take a look tonight and open a ticket. Thanks.

 

[Wexy101]

Was this resolved in Beta2?

 

[cwagz]

Was this resolved in Beta2?

The initial problem was that my app storage got out of sync after the upgrade to Beta1. I was told this is an upstream issue and given instructions to fix the problem.

My PLEX app still does not work though due to my PLEX folders being "consumed by a cloud storage task". This must be a new behavior in Bluefin as I always had the PLEX folders included in my daily Backblaze backups. I was told this was as intended. I was going to try removing the folder backups eventually and see what happens.

Seems like a bad idea to not be able to cloud sync the folders though.

 

[truecharts]

The initial problem was that my app storage got out of sync after the upgrade to Beta1. I was told this is an upstream issue and given instructions to fix the problem.

My PLEX app still does not work though due to my PLEX folders being "consumed by a cloud storage task". This must be a new behavior in Bluefin as I always had the PLEX folders included in my daily Backblaze backups. I was told this was as intended. I was going to try removing the folder backups eventually and see what happens.

Seems like a bad idea to not be able to cloud sync the folders though.

Cloudsync and/or snapshots should work with hostPath as far as our Contacts are aware.
If it's not that should be considered a bug, if you already have a Jira ticket about it that's closed please send the link :)

The reason shares+Apps are blocked is mostly related to the fact how permissions for one, might negative affect the permissions of the other. It can become a nested cluster-fuck pretty fast. This, however, is not really an issue with CloudSync tasks.

 

[cwagz]

Cloudsync and/or snapshots should work with hostPath as far as our Contacts are aware.
If it's not that should be considered a bug, if you already have a Jira ticket about it that's closed please send the link :)

The reason shares+Apps are blocked is mostly related to the fact how permissions for one, might negative affect the permissions of the other. It can become a nested cluster-fuck pretty fast. This, however, is not really an issue with CloudSync tasks.

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I did not change anything from how I was using it in Angelfish.

 

[cwagz]

@truecharts - I do have the folder where my PLEX media files are located shared via SMB. I also have an SMB share created for the PlexConfig folder, but it is disabled.

Could this be what is causing the error in Bluefin?

This is the error they flagged in the ticket as intended:

Code:

Warning  Failed     1s (x3 over 20s)  kubelet            Error: Error response from daemon: invalid volume specification: '/mnt/SSDPool/PlexConfig:/config': Invalid mount path. /mnt/SSDPool/PlexConfig. Following service(s) uses this path: `CloudSync Task`.

 

[truecharts]

@truecharts - I do have the folder where my PLEX media files are located shared via SMB. I also have an SMB share created for the PlexConfig folder, but it is disabled.

Could this be what is causing the error in Bluefin?

This is the error they flagged in the ticket as intended:

Code:

Warning  Failed     1s (x3 over 20s)  kubelet            Error: Error response from daemon: invalid volume specification: '/mnt/SSDPool/PlexConfig:/config': Invalid mount path. /mnt/SSDPool/PlexConfig. Following service(s) uses this path: `CloudSync Task`.

BETA.1 is by now replaced by BETA.2, so we're not going to spend time to comment on your question...

 

[cwagz]

BETA.1 is by now replaced by BETA.2, so we're not going to spend time to comment on your question...

Yup. Happening on beta2 as well.

 

[truecharts]

Yup. Happening on beta2 as well.

We've cross referenced this with iX:
Your problem was not SMB, your problem was "CloudSync".

iX has ensured us that with RC1 you should be able to combine CloudSync and Apps storage :)

 

[cwagz]

Just a follow-up. After upgrading to RC1 I was still unable to get past deploying. I had to disable the SMB share for my PLEX data folder. Once I did this everything started working normally again.

I guess I would need to stop PLEX, enable the share, copy new files, disable the share and restart the app to update the media folders.

Plex and Jellyfin apps won't start

I'm running TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12-MASTER-20220711-072905 nightly, and I'm not sure when this issue started. Both Plex and Jellyfin apps are stuck on "DEPLOYING", while the UniFi controller and TrueCommand apps are up and running. Log from Plex...

www.truenas.com

 

[morganL]

Just a follow-up. After upgrading to RC1 I was still unable to get past deploying. I had to disable the SMB share for my PLEX data folder. Once I did this everything started working normally again.

I guess I would need to stop PLEX, enable the share, copy new files, disable the share and restart the app to update the media folders.

Plex and Jellyfin apps won't start

I'm running TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12-MASTER-20220711-072905 nightly, and I'm not sure when this issue started. Both Plex and Jellyfin apps are stuck on "DEPLOYING", while the UniFi controller and TrueCommand apps are up and running. Log from Plex...

www.truenas.com

I'd suggest starting a new thread after testing what works and doesn't work with Rc1.