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Pugfom
Aspirant
Feb 23, 2020

Error message and unresponsive NAS

Hi,  Several days in recent history, I've found my ReadyNAS unresponsive to all except a hard reboot (pulling the plug), and an error on the display of "kfree+168".  I'm aware that the drives are 80%...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 23, 2020
Pugfom wrote:

 

Just curious if anyone knows what the error indicates?

 

It means that the OS crashed at that location.

 

Pugfom wrote:

Several days in recent history, I've found my ReadyNAS unresponsive to all except a hard reboot (pulling the plug), and an error on the display of "kfree+168".  I'm aware that the drives are 80%+ used, but not much over 80%.

What firmware are you running?

Have you tried downloading the full log zip file, and looking for more information in kernel.log (maybe search for kfree)?

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    Pugfom
    Aspirant
    Feb 23, 2020

    Hi Stephen,

     

    I'm running firmware 6.10.2, which appears to be the latest version.  Will try downloading the full log zip and see what I can gleen from that.  Thank you.

     

    Mark

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