Try to Install TrueNAS Core Jails has Broken me

[mjayjock]

Note: This is a repost. I was told that I posted in the wrong place on the forum and this place as suggested. I was also told that posting in all bold will be uncomfortable for folks to read and make them less likely to help me. I understand this; however, this is a cut and paste from a Word doc that was NOT in bold so I do not know how to fix it easily.​

Repost below:

This is probably my last post, at least for a while. I have literally spent 100s of hours trying to get TrueNAS Core to work with jails, specifically, sonarr, radarr, transmission and sabnzbd. I have been using the very detailed guide from salsacalientemuy. It is somewhat outdated but the best I was able to find.​

I followed it carefully but only got sabnzbd to consistently start and connect via GUI and configure. The situation that really got me was sonarr. It installed in its jail and I could start and stop it but it would not connect to the web GUI. Then, while working on it, it refused to start as a service. Radarr never started after the install via the guide. Transmission started but would not connect. I did a lot of searching but could not find a solution for any of this here or elsewhere on the internet.​

This group has some really nice, knowledgeable and helpful folks and I learned a lot from them but I think I may eventually wind up giving up trying to get TrueNAS Core to work for jails.​

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If anyone reading this knows of a better guide to installing these programs in TrueNAS Core jails, I would really appreciate hearing about it. Given such a guide I would probably try one more time to get them installed and running.​

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I am sure there is a solution to my current problems but I do not think I have the energy to pursue it without deleting the jails and starting over. I simply need something that works.​

I keep reading on this forum and elsewhere about TrueNAS jails breaking for after time or updates and I find that fact to be very disconcerting. I really want a stable system.​

I previously put up Esxi7 an older whitebox (i7, H240 disk controller, NAS HDs, SSD system drive,32 GB RAM). Installed two Windows 10 VMs and was able to put up plex, sonarr, radarr, sabnzbd all working together well. I wanted more storage and I wanted to learn more so I looked to TrueNAS Core. As a NAS TrueNAS is simply outstanding but I wanted to put up jails so that I could run the above media ecosystem in one PC rather than two.​

At this point, from my perspective, getting TrueNAS Core jails to work is simply too complicated and unstable for me to continue. I may wind up using the Esxi7 box for the apps and my TrueNAS install for the storage. That will almost certainly work but it is not satisfying for me from a mastery or learning perspective.​

I am going to take some time to study Unraid and maybe take a dive into getting it to work installing the media programs in a NAS. The money for Unraid is not an issue if it works, is more stable (from my perspective) and more user friendly.​

I want to thank the very nice folks on this forum who kindly helped me. I know this failure is mine but I have reached the end of my rope​

 

[victort]

I would recommend you give TrueNAS Scale a try.

 

[NasKar]

FN11.3 iocage jails - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Jackett, Transmission, Organizr

I try to check this thread about every 2 weeks but I will not respond to PMs for support. Please post in the thread so other people also assist. Like a number of people who may be in the same case I was in, I had gone to Corral for Docker...

www.truenas.com

Is a good starting place.

 

[mjayjock]

It has been several months since my initial post and I appreciate all who replied. I am pretty much a newbie but it was extremely frustrating trying to get the jails working in CORE. After reading in the forum about the state of plugins and jails in CORE I decided to abandon it. I did a lot of research on SCALE and UNRAID and decided to go with UNRAID. It cost me some money but if I pay myself $2/hr, the time saved is still worth it. I could have struggled through SCALE but I found UNRAID and the supporting educational base of UNRAID to be excellent for my purposes. I now have a complete Plex ecosystem running (with all the ARRs). I do not know about SCALE but UNRAID's support for apps is just outstanding. As someone early in the learning curve of these wonderful NAS systems, I am very happy I chose UNRAID.