Posts by carriba

  • OMV6 does not show dashboard after fresh installation

    Attached a sequence of six screen dumps taken form the web browser:


    1. Login window, populated with the user name "pi".
    2. First window after successful login displaying the "Dashboard" and underneath the message "Information: The dashboard has not yet been configured. To personalize it, please go to the settings page" (Note: the "settings page" is a hypertext label).
    3. After clicking the "settings page" hypertext label, the next 3rd window opens with overlapping check marks without description field. The "Save" button remains greyed out.
    4. After clicking the overlapping check marks, the "Save" button turns to a blue colour.
    5. After clicking the "Save" button, it reopens the same window after login as above the navigation reiterates ad infinitum.
    6. Last window shows the "Settings/Your profile" panel of the user "pi".


    Not sure yet, if I can find anything on the OMV web browser logs for more details (digging through the log files).

  • OMV6 does not show dashboard after fresh installation

    After a fresh installation of OMV 6, which went just fine on a headless Raspberry Pi device running the latest and updated version of Raspberry Pi Bullseye Lite-OS , I am encountering the following issue:


    When I successfully log in with any modern browser on my PC (Edge and Firefox), I am landing on a message under the "Home/Dashboard" panel:


    Information: The dashboard has not yet been configured. To personalise, please go to the settings page.


    I click on the "settings page" hypertext link, which brings me to the "Home/Dashboard/Settings" panel that displays underneath some overlapped check marks on the same line and then further below the title "Enabled widgets".


    I click all the check boxes that are all overlapped without particular message on the same line, and then click the "Save" button that changes its colour from grey to blue. I then click on the blue coloured Save button, which brings me back to above described "Home/Dashboard" panel with the same "Information" message.


    Please, what is going on here?

  • USB RAID 1

    Thank you for the feedback on this and do appreciate having forwarded the "What's all this with USB?" article.


    It is not my intend to use any RAID setup with disks hanging on a single USB cable or hub. Though, for educational purposes it does merit a mention on how RAID can be setup with any kind of disks setup.


    I stop here for now on this topic ;)

  • USB RAID 1

    Quote from chente

    The fact that this function does not exist is not because it cannot be implemented, it is designed that way precisely to avoid problems. Are you sure you need Raid? Do you know that Raid is not a backup? Do you have a separate backup of your data? If you continue with this you will need it.


    The RAID function does exist on the OS level. Yes, I know that RAID is not a backup and am not using it for this purpose.

  • USB RAID 1


    Is this a workaround for the above said? There is no "undocumented" feature available for OMV to still configure a RAID for a bunch of USB disks?

  • Installing OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch

    Quote from ryecoaaron

    If you are using an unsupported release, you will have to be creative. Most disaster recovery won't involve a fresh install. It will be restoring a backup image.


    Thank you for your feedback. A disaster recovery plan also considers a fresh installation and applying the necessary configuration settings to bring a platform back to its original state of operation.


    Debian Stretch is still in an EOL LTS release as reviewed back some time ago, and, as such, OMV 4.x ought to be supported as well.


    A re-installation ought to resolve my particular situation. This said, I will indeed spend some time and validate OMV 5.x in a test platform soon.

  • Installing OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch

    I went ahead with a bare metal install with OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch as my previous platform was running with this version and it goes faster for me ;)


    Thus, on the terminal prompt fired the command:



    Then I fired the command:


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    sudo sh -c 'apt update ; apt --allow-unauthenticated install openmediavault-keyring ; apt update'


    And I got the following output:



    To me it looks like it is a matter to get access to the public GPG key. Is it possible to obtain access or enable the installation through other means? ;)


    Otherwise, how can you do a disaster recovery when you have been using OMV 4.x all the time? :rolleyes:

  • Installing OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch

    Due to installation challenges of OMV 5.x under Raspberry Pi OS Buster, I thought I give another try and reinstall OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch.


    Are there any installation guides on how OMV 4.x can be installed under Raspbian Stretch? (The original OMV 4.x images are no longer available.)


    I have found a pointer with the article titled Installing OMV 4.x under Raspbian Stretch on how the installation can be prepared and another note titled Installing OMV Extras for OMV4 under Raspbian Stretch on how the Extras can be installed.


    Is there anything else that I may need to observe?

  • Installation of OMV 5.x fails on Raspberry PI OS Bullseye with error when processing package nginx-full

    I have rebooted the device with a "sudo shutdown -r now ; exit", logged in again and relaunched the installation again as above, and this time the installation of the "nginx-full" package worked fine :).


    Here an extract of the output of the transcript on my terminal:



    The installation script moved forward, however I lost connection to the terminal during the installation step where the script was configuring network interfaces.


    When I tried to log in again, and even again after a power recycle, I could no longer login to the device, always getting an "Acess denied" message despite supplying the known login name and the correct password =O.


    I powered the device off and on again (by unplugging the power cord and plugging it in again), still no luck: I can no longer login to the device ;(.

  • Installation of OMV 5.x fails on Raspberry PI OS Bullseye with error when processing package nginx-full

    I started with a a fresh new image of the latest version of the Raspberry PI OS Buster, and have followed the online guide "Installing OMV", next to firing the OS packages repository updates also the commands:


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    sudo rm -f /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install | sudo bash


    However, the installation fails with an error message when processing the package "nginx-full" ;(.


    Here the installation transcript with the relevant parts as displayed on my terminal:



    Double-checking with the "journalctl -xe" command for further error messages, I am getting the following output:



    Thus, not sure if or whether any latest potential OS updates may break the installation. Do welcome any pointer(s) that may allow me troubleshoot further on above observed issues :/.

  • omv-extras repos moving to github

    Quote from ryecoaaron

    [...] And once Debian stretch updates stop, you should not be using an unsupported distro let alone and unsupported version of OMV.


    It did not mention anything about Debian Stretch. Sure, once the underlying OS is no longer supported, then most likely the original OMV version introduced for this Linux OS version is maybe no longer supported either. That's clear.

  • omv-extras repos moving to github


    Please keep this repository up and running for OMV 4.1.36-1 (Arrakis). It is not about not willing to upgrade or use the latest version, it is simply that a running system like OMV 4.1.36-1 (Arrakis) should stay running using its best hardware today.


    Thank you ;):thumbup:

  • Choice of 2 different target versions to update from OMV 4.1.7-1 (Arrakis)

    I'm using OMV 4.1.7-1 (Arrakis) and when checking today for the latest available RPM updates for my NAS box, it seems now I have the choice of 2 different versions as outlined with:


    user@nasbox:~ $ sudo apt list --upgradable -a
    Listing... Done
    openmediavault/arrakis,arrakis 4.1.28-1 all [upgradable from: 4.1.27-1]
    openmediavault/now 4.1.27-1 all [installed,upgradable to: 4.1.28-1]


    Which one shall I choose to update my current platform?

  • Windows cannot access OPENMEDIAVAULT

    Have a look at my posting "Windows 10 Creators failure to locate CIFS/SMB shares" to workaround the issue you're facing by simply launching the "Local Security Policy" tool, and under the branch "Security Options" and then under the option "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" , just change the settings from "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated" to "Send NTLMv2 responses only".


    This did work for my PCs running Windows 10 Home and Professional back some time ago.


    To me it is clearly a Windows 10 issue as I can access the OMV's SMB shares with Windows 7, macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu MATE without any additional setup.


    This said, I do not need to make these kind of changes on my Windows 10 PCs when accessing a SMB shared drive residing on a commercial NAS. Thus, it could be also an OMV setup issue.


    Otherwise, setup an NFS server under OMV, and use NFS client that comes with Windows 10; see the "Setup NFS Client under Windows 10" guide on how to accomplish this. This is the approach I had to take for a PC running Windows 10 Enterprise as it is locked in a domain, and I could not perform above changes despite having admin rights.


    Hope this helps!