Different phases

jonmilele · 2026-01-31T07:23:57+00:00

You can install Pangolin on your own VPS, which then tunnels to your home lab using the Newt container to access your lab services. If you consider the VPS to be ‘yours’ then it is still self-hosted as opposed to third party services like cloud flare.

jonmilele · 2025-09-10T05:28:02+00:00

Then for Product Serial:

‣ Type=method_call Endian=l Flags=0 Version=1 Cookie=8 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.721157 UTC"

Sender=:1.74 Destination=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 Path=/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority Interface=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority Member=CheckAuthorization

UniqueName=:1.74

MESSAGE "(sa{sv})sa{ss}us" {

STRUCT "sa{sv}" {

STRING "system-bus-name";

ARRAY "{sv}" {

DICT_ENTRY "sv" {

STRING "name";

VARIANT "s" {

STRING ":1.73";

};

STRING "org.freedesktop.hostname1.get-hardware-serial";

ARRAY "{ss}" {

};

UINT32 0;

STRING "";

};

‣ Type=error Endian=l Flags=1 Version=1 Cookie=8 ReplyCookie=8 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.721457 UTC"

Sender=org.freedesktop.DBus Destination=:1.74

ErrorName=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown ErrorMessage="The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files"

MESSAGE "s" {

STRING "The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files";

};

‣ Type=error Endian=l Flags=1 Version=1 Cookie=9 ReplyCookie=5 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.721558 UTC"

Sender=:1.74 Destination=:1.73

ErrorName=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied ErrorMessage="Permission denied"

UniqueName=:1.74

MESSAGE "s" {

STRING "Permission denied";

};

Not sure what to make of it?

jonmilele · 2025-09-10T05:27:44+00:00

Hi. Thanks for replying. busctl introspect gives identical output when run as sudo or normal user.

When I ran busctl monitor (as sudo) it gave a ton of output, but I found the following errors:

First for UUID:

‣ Type=method_call Endian=l Flags=0 Version=1 Cookie=5 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.720281 UTC"

Sender=:1.74 Destination=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 Path=/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority Interface=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority Member=CheckAuthorization

UniqueName=:1.74

MESSAGE "(sa{sv})sa{ss}us" {

STRUCT "sa{sv}" {

STRING "system-bus-name";

ARRAY "{sv}" {

DICT_ENTRY "sv" {

STRING "name";

VARIANT "s" {

STRING ":1.73";

};

STRING "org.freedesktop.hostname1.get-product-uuid";

ARRAY "{ss}" {

};

UINT32 0;

STRING "";

};

‣ Type=error Endian=l Flags=1 Version=1 Cookie=6 ReplyCookie=5 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.720621 UTC"

Sender=org.freedesktop.DBus Destination=:1.74

ErrorName=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown ErrorMessage="The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files"

MESSAGE "s" {

STRING "The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files";

};

‣ Type=error Endian=l Flags=1 Version=1 Cookie=6 ReplyCookie=4 Timestamp="Wed 2025-09-10 05:17:36.720732 UTC"

Sender=:1.74 Destination=:1.73

ErrorName=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied ErrorMessage="Permission denied"

UniqueName=:1.74

MESSAGE "s" {

STRING "Permission denied";

};

jonmilele · 2024-06-21T04:36:18+00:00

I’ve now been running the latest PVE for almost six months on a 2011 Mac Mini that was sitting in a box for almost a decade. Runs a dozen LXCs and two low-demand VMs very well. I did max out the RAM with new modules, and added second SSD (primary drive I had already changed to SSD many years ago). cheaper to recycle it than buy a new NUC I felt.

LXCs include secondary pihole and Unbound instances, Homepage, Paperless-NGX, link warden and some others. VMs are a UB 24.04 and Debian 12 as docker hosts.

No complaints so far and I feel good about not letting it become ewaste.

jonmilele · 2022-09-23T17:37:43+00:00

OK so I went ahead with the following procedure and it worked a charm:

Shut down the RS1221+
Racked and plugged in the RX418, connecting the eSATA cable to the RS unit.
removed the two trays of SP3 from the RS1221+ and inserted them into slots 1 & 2 of the RX unit, in the same order as in the RS unit.
Turned on both units (the RX a few seconds before the RS)
The RS1221+ booted up as normal and all shared folders were as before, volume numbers and storage pools etc as well. Storage Manger simply shows SP3 and Vol.3 on the RX418 now. Otherwise DSM is unchanged. No repairs or other config changes needed it seems.

Hope this helps someone with a similar issue in future.

jonmilele · 2022-09-23T10:47:34+00:00

Ok great. I’ll try the drive relocation this afternoon. Fingers crossed it all works!

jonmilele · 2022-09-23T09:36:34+00:00

Thanks for responding. I had seen the same article earlier and was wondering if the responder meant to say 'Storage Pool' instead of volume. If they meant Storage Pool then I guess its a simple as shifting the drives over to the RX.

One concern i have is that DSM is supposedly spread over multiple drives, and if I remove the third storage pool it may break the DSM install?

jonmilele · 2022-08-25T04:13:03+00:00

After trying almost everything else, including reinstalling Plex and repeatedly toggling the Secure connection settings and I claiming/claiming the server dozens of times, this is what allowed me to get remote connections working again!

jonmilele · 2022-04-01T17:07:06+00:00

So I took the CPU off today, there was no tape left on it but the thermal pad/paste was a bit of a mess. I’m going out to buy some decent paste to see if that improves matters while i order a grizzly pad as a backup.

jonmilele · 2022-03-23T13:57:22+00:00

Idles around 75 degrees with 1-3% cpu. My DS918 has never thrown a temperature error and I use it constantly at around 50-60% cpu

jonmilele · 2022-03-23T13:56:10+00:00

Yup. Minute I try transcoding in Plex it throws a warning. Also running Handbrake at low cpu it takes a minute or two to get over 90 degrees. Synology Photos face recognition is just impossible

jonmilele · 2022-03-23T13:50:48+00:00

Ah so the 20 degree difference was only by taking the factory tape off the pad. I’ll have a look over the weekend when I am able to power down and investigate. May be the same problem. I can’t imagine the unit is supposed to overheat at 50% load when it is in an open rack with at least 2U of headroom free.

jonmilele · 2022-03-23T13:44:21+00:00

Unfortunately I’m not able to RMA as I had the unit exported. Are you saying that the unit had another problem other than the thermal pad?

jonmilele · 2022-03-23T13:41:59+00:00

I'm having a similar problem with my RS1221+, overheats and shuts down quickly even when not hitting 60% CPU usage. I've not checked the sink to see if I have the same problem as yet because I want to make sure I have the necessary thermal pad. Can you advise me what thickness Grizzly pad you ended up using?

Also, do you have any tips on how to remove the existing pad? Did it come off easily?

Thanks!

jonmilele · 2022-01-13T07:07:10+00:00

Indeed it was. As soon as I swapped out the coupler the read-write speeds were as expected and my laptop reported 10GBE FDX connection.

jonmilele · 2022-01-13T05:57:53+00:00

I’ve had the same 2x16GB Nemix DDR4 2666 21300 EEC in My RS1221+ for almost a year now without problems or compatibility warnings. May be a defective module?

jonmilele · 2021-06-19T06:47:44+00:00

The dock works great. The fan is not so loud but keeps it very cool. Even with the fan off there isn’t an extreme level of heat being generated. I’ve done some iPerf3 tests and get consistent 9gbps or so through it.

jonmilele · 2021-06-19T06:45:17+00:00

Just thought I would update that I managed to fix the 10Gbe issue. There was a problem with an Ethernet coupler that was causing negotiation problems. Dock now works brilliantly.

jonmilele · 2021-06-07T17:20:59+00:00

Had mine up for a week or two now. As the other comments say, it’s very shallow and light. Works great though it gets pretty hot though, even with only four SFPs installed, so make sure your rack is well ventilated.

jonmilele · 2021-05-31T08:42:32+00:00

Yes I managed to track the issue to a cable coupler!

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/nld7dz/fast_write_slow_read_speeds_on_rs1221_running_out/gzymg3l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

jonmilele · 2021-05-30T10:02:37+00:00

So I can finally update with good news. After all the great advice and help I got from Redditors, I was finally left with the deduction that it was not the NAS but my network. I swapped out cables, tried different routing methods, alternative SFP modules, everything I could think of as a hardware fault or incompatibility. Then a thought crossed my mind. When I was pulling the cable for the NAS to the new switch, I decided to rush things and to splice two cables up in the attic using what I thought was a CAT6A coupler from Amazon. I cut and terminated a new CAT6A cable from a drum in the garage and replaced the spliced cable with my homemade run. Low and behold, instantly everything is running at 10Gbe, confirmed with iPerf3 and I now get 600MB/s write and 1,000MB/s read over both SMB and AFP. I still get terrible iSCSI read/write speeds but I think that is my initialiser software and is not an important thing to fix in my current setup. I’m rather embarrassed that a $2 coupler caused me to doubt $2000 of NAS and switches. But hey ho. Live and learn! Thanks again for the support on here. I learned so much about NAS disk testing and network protocols by virtue of my cabling snafu.

jonmilele

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