WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by xattt on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:07PM (#27625543)

I converted a QNAP device to Ubuntu after the updates stopped coming. It’s decent and fits perfectly where it lives in my house.

Of all things, it has a weird boot-up bug where it fails to boot to Ubuntu during about a half-hour period (around :15 and :45) each hour and lands on a kernel panic within a second after grub. I have no idea where to start. Firmware is latest.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by bombcar on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:26PM (#27625679)

Interesting - is it reliably between those times? What is the panic?

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by xattt on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:12PM (#27626443)

I’m about 3/4 certain that it’s between those times, and never at the top of the hour.

Getting the exact panic would unfortunately mean to have to get it down from the shelf where it lives, and plugging it into a monitor to replicate. It doesn’t make it out of low-res text mode when it does.

Most of the time, I’m usually in a rush to get it back up as my family wants lights and Plex to work normally.

I do my best not to reboot to keep the peace!

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by cmeacham98 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:31PM (#27626852)

If you get a chance to test, I'd recommend changing the time on the device and seeing if that makes a difference, should clue you in on if it's a software or environment issue.

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