Newb with broken OMV

Newbie here to OMV. (and pretty linux green as well to be honest)

Have had my NAS up and running for about a month now.

Very straight forward setup,

A handful of SMB shares that I back up my windows devices and mobile phone photos to.

Running plex server in a docker container.

This evening my shares aren't reachable, the web interface is unable to connect.

I have only updated things via the GUI.

The last thing I did was to update one of the packages when prompted. (don't remember the details of which one it was)

I'm figuring that probably broke something

interestingly, the plex server is still working fine.

omv version below

dpkg-query -l 'openmediavault'

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name Version Architecture Description

+++-==============-============-============-===========================================================

ii openmediavault 7.4.10-1 all openmediavault - The open network attached storage solution

or maybe this

Linux openmediavault 6.1.0-26-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64

things I have tried

reboot machine

I can ssh to the machine

I can run omv-firstaid

the 10 options come up, but I get the following error whenever I pick any of the options

ERROR: Failed to connect /var/lib/openmediavault/engined.sock: [Errno 111] Connection refused

sudo omv-upgrade

this gets part way through then starts hitting a whole bunch of read only file system errors like this

Could not create temporary file for /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_var_cache_openmediavault_archives_Packages - mkstemp (30: Read-only file system)

other info

Running on an old HP microserver nl40 that I have repurposed. (was previously running windows 7 as a dlna server)

OMV is installed on a ssd drive running off the the spare sata port on the MB. SSD is about 18 months old. Came out of my home pc when I upgraded the internals.

Looking for some hints on where to go next.

Thanks in advance.

ok this has gotten strange.

so I shutdown the machine, popped the non-os drives out the of drive bays, machine refused to boot. unable to ssh in.

so forced shutdown with power button, removed power cord to drain capacitors etc.

put all drives back in. rebooted and now able to get in via the ui again.

SMB shares accessible via windows and android

It's late here in GMT+8, so I'm going to bed now, but will have a look again tomorrow.

Update on this.

Reviewed SMART values, all looked fine.

Replicated the issue with 3 different hard drives.

Moved the OS drive off the onboard SATA port to one of the 4 existing drive bays and it's been running fine for a couple of weeks.

So might be something odd with that port.