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Zitat von KM0201

The OP seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill in my opinion.

That is one opinion.

In the end, I only wanted the system to behave in the presecribed way. As my linux friend said to me, if there was ever a network issue, you would still have the option of connecting a keyboard etc and debugging directly at the system. In my case, not. He agreed completely that actually, the lack of login script etc would probably never be a problem, but also was incredibly curious why it wasn't available.

In general, I am inquisitive and like to understand. Again as a software engineer, if my software should do somtheing and doesn't, I will investigate to understand why. In the linux arena, I am completely lost.

But OK all, I have a solution. Thanks for your support and I will climb my mountain and leave you to your mole hills.

Hi,

I have done some experiments just to satisfy my curiosity. TrueNas and Rockstor installed and behaved exactly as expected. Installing OMV again gave the dead monitor and keyboard:

A friend who has experince of Linux systems was able to take only a quick look and told me that for some reasons the tty interface is not starting. He tried to start this manually and said it fails but could not determine why in the time he had available.

I have now installed the Proxmox kernel from the web interface. The system was rebooted and now I see the omv login script.

So actually, this solved my problem. However, may I ask, what does installing the Proxmox kernel do. Sure it installs Proxmox, but what is this?

Zitat von ryecoaaron

A wireless adaptor is probably the most common thing that needs firmware. Installing the firmware-nonfree package might fix it.

I am really not worried about this at all. I can see that the problem goes away when i use a lan cable.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

How is the keyboard connected? ps2 or usb? The mouse would never do anything. If the keyboard isn't recognized, the terminal can kind of go to sleep and appear to be broken. If ssh and web interface are working, you can trust the system. If you buy a commercial NAS, most of them don't even have a video port. Would you trust those systems?

Keyboard is USB.

I completely understand the logic that a bought NAS (e.g. my old Synology NAS) does not have a video port. But then it is not something that does not work, everything that is there is working well.

The installation process for OMV states for example that on completion of the install, the ip address will be displayed when the NAS reboots and I can then connect to the web interface. Because of what I see (which is not a lot) I had to connect to my Fritzbox to find the IP address of the OMV NAS.

I have had PC's over the years that have behaved strangely and later found that a HDD was damaged or memory had problems etc. As a software developer, my instinct is to fix something that appears not to work as expected.

Hi ryecoaaron,

The regulatory.db error appeared once when I tried to install with a USB wlan adaptor connected (how it was when I installed succesfully last week). Since connecting the LAN cable this error has not appeared again.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

What exactly is the problem? Just that you can't login via the command line on the box itself? Did you try hitting enter when at the machine? Do you know Linux well enough to fix the machine if the web interface and putty are both broken?

Yes, basically everything works from a remote connection. It is completely dead from the attached keyboard and mouse.

In principal, this is not so important. However, I know nothing of Linux and so as a novice, it just knocks my confidence in the system when I can see that something is not working correctly. Can I trust the system?

Zitat von ryecoaaron

You aren't seeing OMV issues. Everything OMV is working fine from your posts. You are seeing Linux "issues" that you will probably see elsewhere. I am very curious if installing the proxmox kernel from omv-extras fixes the issues. What board is this?

OK. What I am completely confused about is that this worked completey correctly last week. I installed 2 data drives and then made the foolish mistake of reinstalling. Since then the problem started. I have disconnected everything so that it matches teh hardware configuration from last week and still, the problem exists.

The board is an old ITX Point of View board. I can't get the model right now but again, this was working with the install last week.

I will install the extras and give it a try

Hi all,

I have disconnected the newly installed data drives and tried to install once more. This is the configuration I had last week when everything worked well.

Whilst I know the definition of an idiot, I reinstalled several times this evening. Normally the exact same situation occurred after install and in one case, I had a message stating:

platform regulatory.0: firmware: failed to load regulatory.db (-2)

In the end, I still do not have a system that behaves as expected even though the web interface and putty connections work fine. Clearly, something is not right somewhere and this makes me nervous about trusting the system with my all important data.

I welcome any further advice before I have to make a switch to a different NAS distribution.

Cheers All

Hi Zoki,

I executed the command. Th ereturned data is in the attached file.

Hi Everyone, thanks for the responses.

Zoki: No I haven't installed a GUI. Just teh standard OMV5 install and extras. The problem was there from the start.

chente: I will start the server going again and leave it running overnight. Let's see if it finishes.

Thanks for teh excellent support.

For added information, I have attached the system log from the last boot.

I am very grateful to the support.

Cheers

HI,

The monitor attached to the NAS box shows this:

The curosr is flashing.

As written previously, the text line show ,more information. I then see a red curosr flash briefly over the text and then the screen adjust to show the above. I assume the red cursor is some error message but I don't get an opportunity to see what it is unhappy about.

Again as written, from putty or a webbrowser, everything works fine.

Cheers

HI,

Thanks for responding.

There is no command line to enter anything.

The installation last week worked well. I would see the #login command line text. The new install never shows this.

Note that the web interface is coimpletely ok, I can also connect without problems with Putty. It is only direct at the nas box itself I have no command line option to type anything.

Cheers

Hi,

I installed OMV5 last week to have a small play before committing to it. Everything worked well and I was quite impressed. I have since bought two new 2TB harddrives, installed them in the system and performed the installation process once more.

After install, OMV is completely accessible via the web interface and appears to be working well. Shares created etc.

I have a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to the OMV server (only temporarily) but I never get the command line login script. In fact it shows the text that tells me information about files and blocks during launcvh, and then a red cursor flashes briefly and half the text dissappears. I then just see a flashing underscore character.

I am not an advanced user and have no idea how to debug this. Any advice welcomed.

Hi OpenMediaVaulters,

I am currently using a Synology DS213J and to be honest, it has served me well for the last few years but it is getting painfully slow and so time to change something.

I have downloaded and installed OpenMediaVault on an ITX system I had sitting in a cupboard with a small HDD installed and will order some larger storage drives later today. I am just testing to see if this fits my needs. I am hopeful as the reviews seem excellent but of course, there are other NAS software I could also consider..

I am a software developer and often create apps that use databases. In this case, I want to be able to create schemas and manage them. I typically use mySQL or mariaDB and so just need to install (if not already installed) and then get management access. Can somebody point me in the right direction. Note that I am not familiar with Linux and so please do not assume I know what I am doing in this environment.

I am guessing the information is out there somewhere, but I can't find it. So any help would be appreciated.