FreeNAS issues

Alright I setup my FreeNAS server awhile back and for whatever reason the plugins I had installed (Plex and OwnCloud) stopped working. No settings were changed, the machine just sat there serving me until Plex stopped.

Frankly I'm confused and have no idea why they would stop working. Does anyone have any insight on how these plugins work? I've never been able to figure out exactly how they work or where the logs are stored in case of failures like the present.

Cheers.

Also why isn't there a Software & Operating Systems for Unix systems? No love for Unix :P.

I have this happen from time to time, I'm running the latest build of FreeNas on my media server and didn't have the issue before updating to the latest version, I run four plug-ins (jails) and of the four only two have issues those being Sickrage and Sabnzbd, I also run Couch Potato and Plex but neither of them have the same issues, the funny thing is that at some point I'll loose the ability to load their web interfaces and going to the FreeNas page will error out but looking at FreeNas locally (console) it is running with no problems. Nothing I do will bring the web interface back but if I reboot FreeNas it reloads the jails/plugins and will work just fine for many days.

My gut tells me it's a bug in the version I'm using either in FreeNas or the programs themselves, either way I don't have a solution and hope it's corrected in the next update of FreeNas.

Ok, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with the issue. Perhaps it is the new version causing issues as I just recently installed it a few weeks ago. I'll probably reinstall FreeNAS on an older version. I have another NAS (I have backups of backups) holding onto my data so I can work this out.

Thanks!

Yup, I run two FreeNas servers also, the file server I didn't update to the newest version out of habit (it works...don't screw with it!) but the media server has been running on the old version for about 10 months without any problems so I probably should have left it be....lol

Yeah, I like updates but I'm getting to the point where "Am I sure I want to update this? If so and it breaks can I live without it until it's fixed?"

I actually have another quick question, is there any way to create a share that works on Windows, Linux, Unix, and OSX systems? I've experimented a little bit and looked online but I haven't found anything.

I have shares that work in Linux and Windows using Samba/CIFS, but I don't know about OSx, there is support for all three file systems so it should work, this might help you...

https://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_sharing.html

Something else......last night while poking around in FreeNas I noticed that several of the plugins had updates that needed to be down loaded and applied, these updates where not listed in the programs themselves but where listed in the plugin/installed portion of FreeNas as a update button. One of the programs that I've been having the issue with had a update and I did install it and rebooted the server, I'll see over the next few days if it has any effect on the problem, since I updated FreeNas from a older version several weeks ago this might be newer versions of the plugins that came with that update that I didn't install since it looks like it has to be done manually and the plugins weren't updated when the host system was upgraded. (hope that makes sense...lol)

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