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App icons in web interface broken
really as per the subject - in the web interface all the app icons show as broken It's been broken through the last few releases ( was hoping a new release would fix the issue but.. ) ReadNAS...
I know this is from several months ago but this same "app icons missing or broken" issue has plagued my 316 for more than a year.
I finally solved the issue.
It turns out that my apache2 webserver was always booting into "safe" mode. If you have ssh enabled you can verify by checking the status of apache2 and apache2-safe
systemctl status apache2 systemctl status apache2-safe
In my case, the apache2 status showed "failed", and the reason was because of invalid permissions on the /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi folder. Specifically the error message was:
FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi: access for server (uid 98, gid 98) failed: write not allowed by group
The reason is because apache2 is run by user admin, but the fastcgi folder is owned by www-data.
I changed the owner of /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi to admin:admin and now apache2 boots fine.
I'm not sure if this was the "right" thing to do, or whether perhaps apache2 should be set to run as www-data instead of admin or whether fastcgi should be disabled entirely.
One final point: In "safe" mode, the web interface consistently rebooted anytime I made any settings changes. I found out that the safe mode was giving this error:
apache2[24533]: [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
So if your apache2 is indeed not starting correctly and reverting to safe mode, it might be a good idea performance-wise to find the root cause and fix it.
We saw a same issue once in the past, it back to normal after run "apt-get update",
Please Enable SSH in GUI System-> Settings, then access NAS via SSH (you may use putty tool),
Login user name is root, password is GUI admin login password,
then run command "apt-get update",
Glad it worked out! It's been driving me nuts not having the icons for the past 18 months or more across OS versions 6.4 through 6.8. Also I think the frontview is now more stable and responsive. The safe mode was dog slow and crashed a lot.
Thanks for the tip, though in this case I don't think your solution works. I've done apt-get update and apt-get upgrade several times over in several OS versions and it's never resolved this icon issue.
Specifically the apache2-safe mode was clearly the source of the problem. I can't be sure if I'm even supposed to have fastcgi enabled or if I was monkeying around and enabled it accidentally, but it was certainly the fix for the icons missing and from what I can tell other frontview performance issues.
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