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Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Shaner1234
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Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Hello! I’m having trouble accessing my ReadyNAS RN104 after upgrading the FW to 6.10.1.

The system boots up normally.

  • I can ping the IP address on my network.
  • I can access the login page, and it takes my credentials.
  • But that’s as far as I can get- it just hangs on the Netgear splash screen with the firmware version after entering my password
  • I’ve tried Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.
  • I can access some functions via the NAS utils app on Android
  • I’ve tried rebooting
  • I’ve tried re-flashing the FW via USB (current version only)
  • I’ve tried pluging into the other NIC
  • The LCD displays the IP and volume capacity
  • None of my volumes are available via the network.

I’m fresh out of ideas! Is there any real danger in rolling back the FW via USB? Anything else I can try?

Thanks!

Model: RN104|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay
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StephenB
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Maybe try an OS reinstall next.  It does a partial reinstall of the operating system, which might repair whatever is wrong.  Instructions are on pages 28-29 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf

 

It won't affect your data.  However, it will

  • reset your admin password back to password
  • reset the network connection to use DHCP (and no bonding)
  • disables volume quota

What other apps are you running on the RN104?

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StephenB
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Perhaps also check the status with RAIDar.  Also try to download the log zip file with RAIDar.  https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

HI!! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!  I Tried RAIDar and it works fine! Everything is green and healthy. Diags are clean. I was able to download the log files- which one might offer a clue as to the problem? 

 

Successfully completed diagnostics System

  • Disk 4 has 55 Reallocated Sectors
  • Disk 4 has 1 Reallocation Events
  • Volume root is 100.00% full
  • /data is consuming 2655 MB

Logs

  • No errors found.
Model: RN104|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay
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StephenB
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update


@Shaner1234 wrote:

 

  • Disk 4 has 55 Reallocated Sectors
  • Disk 4 has 1 Reallocation Events

This is not great, personally I'd replace this disk.

 


@Shaner1234 wrote:
  • Volume root is 100.00% full

But this is the more urgent problem.  Were you running Antivirus?

 

Paid support (my.netgear.com) can easily take care of the full volume.  If you are comfortable with the linux command line you could also attempt to diagnose/solve it yourself.

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Yeah, I have some spare disc's standing by, I want to try to get it running first though.

The root message did catch my attention, but I'm not quite sure what it means. I did have anti-virus on before I attempted the upgrade.
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StephenB
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update


@Shaner1234 wrote:
The root message did catch my attention, but I'm not quite sure what it means. I did have anti-virus on before I attempted the upgrade.

The operating system lives on the disks in a 4 GB partition.  If something goes wrong, and that partition gets full then lots of bad stuff can happen.  In particular, the NAS can fail to boot, and NAS configuration files can become corrupted.

 

You can try this procedure to clean up the root:  https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/System-volume-root-s-usage-is-90-RN...

 

If it's not the Antivirus, then you'd need to look further to identify the files that are filling the OS partition.

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Thanks for the help! I was able to SSH in, but didn't find anything abnormal in /var/lib/clamav:

root@RehmNAS:/var/lib/clamav# ls -lsh
total 154M
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   48 Jun  9 16:06 antivir.ini
992K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 990K Jan 25 13:27 bytecode.cld
 41M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41M Jun  9 16:01 daily.cvd
113M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113M Apr  1  2018 main.cvd
4.0K -rw------- 1 root root 1.6K Jun  9 16:06 mirrors.dat
root@RehmNAS:/var/lib/clamav#

So I followed the troubleshooting in the post you linked to. In the /mnt directory i found about 300 files named "chunk-stream1-00XXX.m4s"

They range in size from 2.0M to 0K. total size of /mnt is 284M. Any idea what these are and if I still need them? I did have a plex server installed that began acting up right before this started happening.

 

Model: RN104|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay
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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Interesting- I'm seeing more of these chunk-stream files in the root directory, the root/mnt directory, and the root/mnt/mnt directory. There appears the be a whole duplicate mnt folder inside the main one. Still havnt seen any unusually large log files anywhere

 

 

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

One more update: I found an old torrent file in the /data folder that was taking up 2.6G. Deleted it and it cleared up the storage. 

Last login: Sun Jun  9 16:02:54 2019 from 192.168.1.26
root@RehmNAS:~# df // -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0        4.0G  1.2G  2.6G  32% /
root@RehmNAS:~#
root@RehmNAS:~# df // -i
Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/md0        65536 17532 48004   27% /
root@RehmNAS:~#

I rebooted the NAS, but still unable get past the splashscreen when loading the web interface 😞

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StephenB
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update


@Shaner1234 wrote:

So I followed the troubleshooting in the post you linked to. In the /mnt directory i found about 300 files named "chunk-stream1-00XXX.m4s"


Yes, these are related to plex transcoding - you can delete them.

 

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Thanks again very much for the help!

I've cleared out the plex junk files left behind, and and the old torrent file. I'm down to aobut 30% disk usage. 

I can navigate the file system through SSH, and diagnostics come back all good through RAIDar, and I've rebooted a couple times. However, I still can not get the admin page to load. It still hangs on the splash screen after inputing my username and password. Any other ideas I can try? Would There be a real rish of damage if I were to downgrade the firmware via USB?

Model: RN104|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay
Message 11 of 13
StephenB
Guru

Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

Maybe try an OS reinstall next.  It does a partial reinstall of the operating system, which might repair whatever is wrong.  Instructions are on pages 28-29 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf

 

It won't affect your data.  However, it will

  • reset your admin password back to password
  • reset the network connection to use DHCP (and no bonding)
  • disables volume quota

What other apps are you running on the RN104?

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Shaner1234
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Re: Unable to log into RN104 after FW update

And just like that we are back online! Thanks so much for the help!

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