Month: January 2023

Fix Synology `Allocation Status` Crashed Error

Fix Synology Allocation Status Crashed Error

I use JBOD for backup volume with checksum turned on, because I don't expect both data on source and backup date lost. The issue of one disk in JBOD volume can cause volume crash, which becomes read only. When checking the the status further, only one disk shows Allocation Status as Crashed but Health Status as Healthy.

In the pass, due to the faulty volume is in read only status, I need to create new folders with new names and copy all data into new folders, then rebuilt the disk array, and move the volume back to new created volume, which requires reconfiguration of permission and services too, such as NFS, Timemachine, Rsync, etc. It can take days to complete all these tasks.

This time, I tried to recover the volume using a few commands.

Steps

Recreate Array

  • Login into command line of Sysnology as root

  • Find the array

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md2 : active raid5 sda5[0] sdc5[2] sdb5[1]
      1943862912 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

md12 : active raid5 sdjc7[5] sdjb7[6] sdjd7[3] sdja7[7] sdje7[8]
      1953467648 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

md9 : active raid5 sdjc6[9] sdjb6[8] sdja6[6] sdjd6[7] sdje6[5]
      703225088 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

md6 : active raid5 sdjc5[6] sdjd5[5] sdjb5[9] sdja5[8] sdje5[7]
      1230960384 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

md4 : active linear sdg3[0] sdh3[2](E) sdf3[1]
      2915921472 blocks super 1.2 64k rounding [3/3] [UUE]

md10 : active raid5 sdja8[2] sdje8[3] sdjc8[4]
      1953485824 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

md7 : active raid5 sdib6[4] sdie6[5] sdic6[3] sdia6[2] sdid6[1]
      3906971648 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

md3 : active raid5 sdie5[5] sdia5[4] sdid5[3] sdib5[7] sdic5[6]
      7794733824 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

md8 : active raid5 sdie7[0] sdib7[3] sdic7[2] sdia7[1]
      2930228736 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]

md1 : active raid1 sdh2[5] sdg2[4] sdf2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0]
      2097088 blocks [8/6] [UUUUUU__]

md0 : active raid1 sdh1[3] sdg1[4] sdf1[2] sda1[0] sdb1[1] sdc1[6]
      2490176 blocks [8/6] [UUUUU_U_]

unused devices: <none>
  • Collect RAID info
# mdadm --examine /dev/sdh3
/dev/sdh3:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 1.2
    Feature Map : 0x0
     Array UUID : 6783225a:318612f7:3473d58a:09a977b2
           Name : ds1812:4  (local to host ds1812)
  Creation Time : Wed Dec 28 07:04:52 2022
     Raid Level : linear
   Raid Devices : 3

 Avail Dev Size : 3897584768 (1858.51 GiB 1995.56 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 0
    Data Offset : 2048 sectors
   Super Offset : 8 sectors
   Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=65 sectors
          State : clean
    Device UUID : 14704640:a5536257:40c4ae47:2f008c53

    Update Time : Sat Jan 21 00:36:29 2023
       Checksum : 8685d50c - correct
         Events : 5

       Rounding : 64K

   Device Role : Active device 2
   Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)
root@ds1812:~#
  • Unmount the system, if not successful, use force and kill option
# umount -f -k /volume3
  • Stop array
# mdadm --stop /dev/md4
  • Recreate array, answer the question as y
# mdadm --create --force /dev/md4 --metadata==1.2 --raid-devices=3 ---level=linear /dev/sdg3 /dev/sdf3 /dev/sdh3 -u6783225a:318612f7:3473d58a:09a977b2
mdadm: ... appears to be part of a raid array:
       ...
Continue creating array? y

Now, the array has been recreated, and should be in correct state

# cat /proc/mdstat

Check the filesystem and mount it again

The filesystem type is btrfs, so use following command to verify it

# btrfsck /dev/md4
Syno caseless feature on.
Checking filesystem on /dev/md4
UUID: 7a3a3941-e0c4-4505-8981-d309fb9482a5
checking extents
checking free space tree
checking fs roots
checking csums
checking root refs
found 2037124587520 bytes used err is 0
total csum bytes: 1986978456
total tree bytes: 2458648576
total fs tree bytes: 62947328
total extent tree bytes: 50741248
btree space waste bytes: 294577149
file data blocks allocated: 6689106694144
 referenced 1995731652608
root@ds1812:/# echo $?
0

Mount the filesystem, now, the Synology error beep should be stopped

mount /volume3

References

How to handle a drive that has "Allocation Status: Crashed"
[HOWTO] repair a clean volume who stays crashed volume
mdadm(8) — Linux manual page
Manualy repair filesystem command line DS214
How to recover from BTRFS errors

Query RAM Type in Windows 11

Query RAM Type in Windows 11

To query RAM type for each slot, run following command

wmic memorychip get

Note: High clock speed RAM can be used in low speed computer normally.

References

How to get full PC memory specs (speed, size, type, part number, form factor) on Windows 10
Is there any problem if I use 3200 MHz RAM whereas my motherboard supports up to 2400 MHz?

Unable to query DNS with DOMAIN from `dnsmasq` server

Unable to query DNS with DOMAIN from dnsmasq server

When doing nslookup, dnsmasq server could not reply the DNS with DOMAIN, but able to reply short dns name only. Following message may appear.

# nslookup www
....
dnsmasq server can't find www.example.com: NXDOMAIN

Solution

The reason is that DNS entries in dnsmasq host file (default is banner_add_hosts) has no domain name

192.168.1.1  www

In dnsmasq.conf file

Following lines are required. The expand-hosts option allows appending the domain name defined in domain line to short hostname in host file

domain=example.com,192.168.1.0/24
expand-hosts

References

Move MicroSD boot proxmox to eMMC

Move MicroSD boot proxmox to eMMC

Steps

  • Manually deplicate partition from MicroSD to eMMC using fdisk, ignore the bios partition as EFI partition used.
  • Unmount old /boot/efi partition, then duplicate EFI partition using dd from MicroSD, this can keep UUID
  • Create PV on eMMC data partition and add it to pve VG
  • Move all data from old MicroSD partition to eMMC partition
    pvmove /dev/<MicroSD partition>
  • Check structure and UUID using following command
    lsblk -o +UUID
  • Remove MicroSD PV from pve VG using vgreduce, then use pvremove to remove PV from MicroSD
  • Mount new /boot/efi partition, then run grub-install to recreate grub.cfg file
  • Remove MicroSD from system, then reboot

References

Changing IP address for all nodes in Proxmox Cluster

Changing IP address for all nodes in Proxmox Cluster

Steps

  • Change IP in all nodes in following files /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts
  • Change all IP address in /etc/pve/corosync.conf
  • Reboot all nodes.

Troubleshooting

If above failed during the synchronization, use following commands to fix it.

  • Stop cluster services on the node that wasn't synchronized
systemctl stop corosync.service
systemctl stop pve-cluster
  • Update the corosync.conf file manually
vi /etc/corosync/corosync.conf
  • Restart cluster services
systemctl start corosync.service
systemctl start pve-cluster

Verify configuration file again and cluster status

cat /etc/corosync/corosync.conf
pvecm status

XRDP login with error related to color policies

XRDP login with error related to color policies

XRDP is the service service for Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection.

Note: XRDP desktop isn't the desktop of console, and it is also impacting the console login. So, don't use console and XRDP at same time.
Note: when I used VNC based software, the screen didn't refresh correctly.

Error

Following errors occurred, these error message can be bypassed by key in password or click on Cancel button and these are only appearing one the first connection established

Authentication is required to create a color profile
Authentication is required to create a color managed device

Reason

The authorization was not granted by Polkit on color management features to user remote login user. The errors are shown as below in file /var/log/auth.log, and the first line is for failed login.

Jan  2 08:07:56 baidu-ubuntu polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile for system-bus-name::1.107 [/usr/libexec/gsd-color] (owned by unix-user:xxxxx)
Jan  2 08:08:36 baidu-ubuntu polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:xxxxx to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile for system-bus-name::1.107 [/usr/libexec/gsd-color] (owned by unix-user:xxxxx)
Jan  2 08:08:54 baidu-ubuntu polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:xxxxx to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device for system-bus-name::1.107 [/usr/libexec/gsd-color] (owned by unix-user:xxxxx)

Fix

Create file called /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/45-allow-colord.pkla as below

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/45-allow-colord.pkla

[Allow Colord all Users]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile;org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile;org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-device;org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

References

How to Fix “Authentication is required to create a color profile/managed device”

Garmin Fenix – useful features

Garmin Fenix - useful features

Pause and Resume

Press start/stop button during activity is on.

  • To resume your activity, select Resume.
  • To save the activity and view the details, select Save, press Start button, and select an option.
  • To suspend your activity and resume it at a later time, select Resume Later.
  • To mark a lap, select Lap.
  • To navigate back to the starting point of your activity along the path you traveled, select Back to Start > TracBack.
  • To navigate back to the starting point of your activity by the most direct path, select Back to Start > Route.
  • To measure the difference between your heart rate at the end of the activity and your heart rate two minutes later, select Recovery HR, and wait while the timer counts down.
  • To discard the activity, select Discard.

Garmin Edge 1030 – useful features during cycling

Garmin Edge 1030 - useful features during cycling

Split long course

Garmin got bug when the Course is longer than 180 KM as my experiences, and it caused self reboot during recalculating. So I have to split the course into smaller segments, and this is also improve the loading time. Anyway, Garmin Edge isn't a fast computer.

Change Course during cycling

In order to load the next Course into Edge without stopping the activity, the following steps can be used

  • Touch the screen
  • Tap on Home icon
  • Tap on Navigation
  • Tap on Courses
  • Tap on the Course to load
  • Return to Home page
  • Tap on the round activity icon on top of screen to back to activity screen if needed

Pause/Resume activity

If the activity is on, the power button will lock the touch screen. Otherwise, will off the screen.

To Pause activity for lunch

  • Press start/stop button
  • Press power button to off the screen

Resume activity

  • Press power button
  • Press start/stop button

Merge activities

If the activity was stopped and saved, then the only way I know to merge with previous activity is using following online tool, but some useful information will be lost too, such as activity type, category, calories, etc.

https://gtt.feub.net/merge-activities/