Its_All.Lost
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Moonraker Warnings Found (OpenNept4une)

Moonraker Warning

Moonraker warnings found. I have only ran into this twice so far. Once when I was doing the original install and just now today again, after a power outage. First I tried to update everything. Updated. No help, still has the error. Restarting didn’t do anything. Something must have gotten corrupted. If you head over to the OpenNeptune3D GitHub there is a solution posted there under the display_connector repository in the issues/bug tracker. I will also detail it here.

 

Moonraker warnings found

  1. [update_manager]: Failed to load extension display: It reports an invalid path for the option  virtualenv  in section [update_manager display] . The specified path /home/mks/display_connector/venv does not exist.
  2. Unparsed config option ‘primary_branch: main’: This is detected in section [update_manager display]. It suggests the option may no longer be available or could result from a failed module. A warning indicates this will cause a startup error in the future.
  3. Unparsed config option ‘requirements: requirements.txt’: This is also detected in section [update_manager display] and may no longer be available or caused by a failed module. A similar warning states this will lead to a startup error in the future.
  4. Unparsed config option ‘origin’: The text includes a URL: https://github.com/OpenNeptune3D/display_connector.git, which is detected in section [update_manager display]. It may no longer be an available option or the result of a failed module, with a warning that this will cause a startup error in the future.

 

If you log into Fluidd and see this Moonraker warning message don’t worry, there is an easy fix. You will need to SSH into the 3D printer to run some commands.

SSH into the printer from a terminal on your computer/phone/tablet, whatever you are using.

 

After you login you should be in the home directory for the user mks . We need to change directories and enter display_connector to run the installer.

From the terminal type cd /home/mks/display_connector

Now we need to run the display service installer, which should clear up the issue.

Type ./display-service-installer.sh

Now you can head back to your Fluidd window and refresh the page. The issue should be gone now.

Hard drive failure

hard drives

Yes, it happened…again. I suffered from a “violent” power surge a couple weeks ago. It was not a normal surge or outage. The power went off and on very rapidly for a few seconds. The lights were flickering all crazy and I swear I heard some electrical crackling. We had two power outages that day. After the first two I ran over and shutoff my Mac and external hard drive.

Later that day when I turned the Mac on I noticed my external drive icons did not appear on my desktop. They were gone. WTF. After a few moments they eventually appeared. I have my external drive partitioned into two parts. The second partition loaded up fine, the first popped up with an error stating I could not write to the drive and that I needed to backup the data and reformat as soon as possible. Oh shit. I immediately opened both drives. They opened in Finder, OK all the data is still there. So I figured something happened obviously. I unmounted the drives and killed power to the external drive. I turned it back on hoping the drives would load, and they did not. Now I had the error on both drives. Fuck.

It’s a 1TB drive and all I have is a 256GB SSD on the Mac. Not even enough space to save all the data. Fuck fuck fuck. After a few days of constantly trying to get the drives to mount I gave up. I copied all the data I could. But after the second try of mounting the drives started coming up with files and folders missing. Oh shit did I lose my shit? I don’t think so. The drives were still reporting the correct usage and free space, so the data has to still be there. Right? After a week of scouring the net I came to the conclusion that the partitioning table got fucked up. I tried repairing it with the Mac but no luck. Soon as I tried the disks unmounted and never came back. Fuck again.

The drive was not working at all on the Mac or Windows. Lets try Ubuntu. Hey they don’t load but I can see the drives in /dev. I still couldn’t mount them, format them or play with the partitions. I tried loading GParted but it would just hang until the drive was unplugged. I let that bitch sit for hours. Believe me I gave everything I did a lot of time to do what it could. Nothing worked. I believe the drive is fucked. I had to go out and purchase another drive. I couldn’t go on any longer without an external drive. And I was getting disk full errors on my Mac. A trip to Fry’s Electronics fixed the no drive issue. Had to drop $100 though. I ended up getting a 3TB (upgrade!) external drive with enclosure. It was $10 more to get the drive+enclosure vs just a bare drive. So I went with caution in case the external drive enclosure was jacked (I don’t think so because I tried the drive with my Apricorn DriveWire) and got the enclosure too.

So I still have the drive, just like the last one that died on me. I am so fucking tired of losing data. Shit is gone that I will never be able to replace… Time to invest in cloud backup storage. 1TB of cloud storage at DropBox doesn’t sound too bad right now.