Using 11.2-U1, 11.2-U2 or 11.2 U2.1 ... new GUI fails to respond to menu selections

[Ruff.Hi]

The new GUI fails to show the right screen under Systems / Boot Environments. I click on that option and all I see is the dashboard (or what ever I was showing before I click on the menu). I tried some other options under system and nothing worked.

The Accounts / users option updates!
But nothing under the menu option 'tasks' works.
Menu option 'Network / static routes' works as does 'storage / pools'.

Any suggestions?


I started to look at this last night when PLEX stopped working. I think I need to fix the GUI option and then worry about PLEX.

BTW ... all of my data appears to be there. Nightly monitoring reports appear to be normal.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

This is interesting ... I have two ip addresses for the interface (.10 and .5). The menu works fine on the .5 version but remains borked on the .10 version.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

And plex isn't accessible because it isn't started. Trying to start it via the console gives ...

pkg: /var/db/pkg permissions (0777) too lax

 

[aschaapherder]

Interesting indeed. I have noticed the same (or similar, still trying to get a good picture of the situation). I noticed that several menu items in the web interface did not respond at some point (more details below). When I look at the ip addresses I notice that directly after boot I have my FreeNAS ip address listed as Primary NIC in the dashboard, but after a while (when jails have started) I see another address, one of my jails. What is more worrying is that on the console I see three ip addresses listed as web interface addresses. .16 is the primary address and .81 and .86 are jail addresses (fixed). The web interface is indeed available on all three addresses. Reboot doesn't solve the issue.


I arrived at this situation after doing a clean install on an SSD off 11.2 U1 (coming from mirrored USB sticks). I rolled back a week ago after the U2 SMB issue hit me. I had the SSD lying around for a while and decided to do the move today. So a clean install and an upload of the saved config brought me back to 11.2U1 but I noticed some jails not starting properly. As VNET issues were another reported issue I did the upgrade to 11.2U2.1 and started noticing this issue.

I also also noticed that during the "unresponsive" menu items I managed twice to have the system reboot itself while I was clicking in the menu structure (using Firefox current).

I checked open issues in Redmine but did not find this one yet (happy to be corrected).

Note that I did not change any settings moving from 11.2U1 on USB to 11.2U1 on SSD and upgrade to 11.2U2.1 .

Update: I have four iocage jails of which three are pluginv2 ones, all the same version. Two of these plugin jails have the ip addresses that show up (.81 and .86). I also have an older warden jail. All have fixed ip addresses.

Update2: The two "offending" jails do not have the VNET feature enabled. They were working before the reinstall as stated above. Enabling VNET on one of them (stop jail, enable VNET, start jail) removes the ip address from the console list and the Dashboard but breaks network access ... Disabling VNET restores access and brings the ip address back into Dashboard and console.
I noticed that the ipv4 default route is not set for these jails. Enabling VNET and setting the default route removes the ip address from console and dashboard but does not restore network access to the jail.

Dell T20
Intel Xeon CPU E3-1225 v3
24 Gb DDR3 ECC
3 x 3 TB SATA harddisk
1 x 240 Gb SSD

 

[Ruff.Hi]

Plex has been coming and going. Mostly going. I am going to try and install some jails with a reduced exposure to my movies (only 5, currently sitting in a dataset ... to see what I can get.

Anyway, started out by watching some videos and how tos.

Code:

root@freenas:~ # ifconfig
igb0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=6403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 0c:c4:7a:ac:27:0a
        hwaddr 0c:c4:7a:ac:27:0a
        inet 192.168.1.28 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
igb1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=6403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 0c:c4:7a:ac:27:0b
        hwaddr 0c:c4:7a:ac:27:0b
        inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet 192.168.1.201 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        groups: lo

Should igb1 being showing 2 ip addresses?

Code:

        inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet 192.168.1.201 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

The bold one is the address of my iocage.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

Still don't know what is up with the 1.10 interface. Using the 1.28 seems to work fine. Got plex via plug in working. Also got plex inside a iocage jail working. Resigning myself to losing my meta data.