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Jaybone512
Jan 18, 2021Aspirant
RN314 Front Panel - Null ffffffff880fa4cf
Hi, all. I've got a RN314 that's started showing "(null)+ffffffff880fa4cf" on the front panel. Currently running 6.10.1. The logs aren't showing any errors or warning, status on everything looks g...
- Jan 19, 2021
Pull a fresh log-gather from the cluster ("System" > "Logs" > "Download Logs") and look for the files there.
Jaybone512
Jan 19, 2021Aspirant
mdgm wrote:From memory, I think "null" doesn't tell you a lot about the error. You'd need to check the logs or if not in there monitor the serial console to get more information.
The LCD only shows a snippet of the kernel error message. The full error message (several lines) should be in kernel.log and systemd-journal.log if it has not already been rotated out.
Hi, thanks.
Where should those logfiles be found? I'm not seeing them anywhere.
root@RNfakeName:/# find . -name "*systemd-journal.lo*" root@RNfakeName:/# find . -name "*kernel.lo*" root@RNfakeName:/#
root@RNfakeName:/var/log# ls -clahsR *.log 132K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130K Dec 17 10:07 dpkg.log 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Jun 7 2016 LeafP2P.log 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9K Mar 12 2014 netatalk.log 4.0K -rw-r----- 1 root root 3.2K Nov 29 10:56 proftpd.log root@RNfakeName:/var/log#
rn_enthusiast
Jan 19, 2021Virtuoso
Pull a fresh log-gather from the cluster ("System" > "Logs" > "Download Logs") and look for the files there.
- Jaybone512Jan 19, 2021Aspirant
Forum seems to have eaten my previous post...
Getting the logs that way worked, and both kernel.log and systemd-journal.log in the zipfile it produced had references to the Plex scanner daemon crashing. That was the only thing that looked out of the ordinary, so I'm going with that was probably it.
Thanks, mdgm and rn_enthusiast !
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