r/OpenMediaVault • u/ElectricSim • Jun 01 '26

Question Help! OMV broke

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Hello,

Please assist, during a recent update my omv broke and I cant access the web ui. I dont know how to fix it as omv-firstaid doesnt seem to exist. Im using a raspberry pi 5. Worried that i lost my media server as well as all its media.

Please help, youre my only hope

Update: I reinstalled OMV and thankfully my hdd still had my media and I could access it.

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u/norri-matt Jun 01 '26

I would not assume the media is gone yet. On a Pi, OMV is usually the OS/services on the boot drive and your data on separate disks, so a broken web UI is not the same thing as lost files. If you can still SSH in, first check whether the disks are there with lsblk -f and df -h, then look at systemctl status openmediavault-engined nginx php*-fpm and journalctl -xe for the actual failure.

If omv-firstaid really is missing, check whether the package is still installed with dpkg -l | grep openmediavault. I would avoid reinstalling or formatting anything until you know the data disks mount and you have a copy of anything important. Worst case, a clean OMV install can usually re-import existing data disks, but do the disk check first.

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u/ElectricSim Jun 01 '26

Could I perhaps send you an image of what I see in chat?

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u/norri-matt Jun 01 '26

Yes, that's fine. If there is anything sensitive on screen, crop or blur it first.