Auto decrypt/shrink events not processing

[lashers]

A few days ago I found that programs were not being decrypted or shrunk. The items were being added to the queue but not processed, the auto log showing:

/bin/sh: /mod/webif/lib/auto/deq: Permission denied

A trial manual decrypt and shrink did however complete successfully. A search on the forum and the wiki has not produced any useful information; an internet search provided some general suggestions, one of which was to check permissions. This produced the following result:

Humax1TB# ls -l /mod/webif/lib/auto/deq                                                                                                           
-rwx------    1 root     root          1061 Mar 25  2022 /mod/webif/lib/auto/deq

I assume this looks OK; the next suggestion was to reinstall "the web interface or the specific module that is causing the issue" but I don't know which module is involved and am not sufficiently confident to proceed. Can anyone provide any advice or instructions on how to resolve this? Two things which may or may not be relevant: I noticed that I was still running customised firmware 3.13 so upgraded but the problem remains; also, after the upgrade I had a disk warning that offline sectors had increased from 8 to 24 and the most recent Self-test logs showed:

1     Extended offline     Completed: read failure     10%     41409     -
2     Short offline     Completed without error     00%     41402     -

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Black Hole]

an internet search provided some general suggestions, one of which was to check permissions...

reinstall "the web interface or the specific module that is causing the issue"

The general internet knows nothing about the CF, I have never known there to be issues with permissions. This is the only place to ask and any fiddling in the dark is likely to make matters worse.

am not sufficiently confident to proceed

Good.

still running customised firmware 3.13

No harm in that.

after the upgrade I had a disk warning that offline sectors had increased from 8 to 24

That is not necessarily alarming, but it would be worth running a fixdisk (as would be advantageous from time to time).

From what you've said, it sounds like the queue is not processing. Does the queue* show any tasks completing recently? Rather than duplicate information, THIS THREAD appears to be an exact match to your problem..

* WebIF >> Queue, assuming WebIF >> Settings >> Auto-Processing Settings >> Show queue icon in menu/toolbar? = YES.

 

[prpr]

I assume this looks OK;

You (of course) didn't state your WebIf version, but I can tell you're not on the latest version. That file size looks pretty suspicious too.

I had a disk warning that offline sectors had increased from 8 to 24 and the most recent Self-test logs showed:
1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 10% 41409

You need to run through the fixdisk procedure in Maintenance Mode first, until you have no offline sectors. Then upgrade all your packages to the latest releases.

I have never known there to be issues with permissions.

There have been several over the years. There was one I fixed just recently in 1.5.4-1.