Cannot upgrade from 6.9.2 to 6.10.2

[Mglomniac]

Hi All -

 

I cannot seem to upgrade from 6.9.2 to 6.10.2.  I can do a clean install and that works, however when I try and upgrade from the unraid dashboard, it will not work.  I lose internet connectivity to the server when I try and upgrade.  I've also tried a fresh usb install and then copied over my config files and that does not seem to work either.  Any suggestions? 

[itimpi]

What server hardware do you have?   It might be hardware that needs the 6.10.3-rc1 release to boot with network connectivity.

[Mglomniac]

I can do a clean install on the sever and have no issues and get it up and running just fine. It's only when I try and update through unraid that it will not work. I doubt it's hardware related - my guess is that there's some setting somewhere that's causing an issue.  I don't want to perform a clean install...

[Mglomniac]

To answer your question, it's an old Intel desktop pc -

Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz

Asus P7P55D EVO

 

[itimpi]

How much RAM do you have?

 

you can always do a Manual Upgrade if you have problems doing it via the GUI..

[Mglomniac]

24gigs of ram

 

I've tried doing a manual update - but it will not work. I reflash my usb, copy over my config folder and from there, there is a conflict where it won't be accessable either from the gui or on the network. 

[Mglomniac]

it only works when it's a completely clean install. 

[itimpi]

2 hours ago, Mglomniac said:

I've tried doing a manual update - but it will not work. I reflash my usb, copy over my config folder and from there, there is a conflict where it won't be accessable either from the gui or on the network. 

The instructions I linked to did not even mention the config folder and involved plugging the USB stick into a PC/Mac to do the update.   Is that how you did it as your description implies something else.

[Mglomniac]

Yes, I tired it the way the manual upgrade suggested, and it still will not be seen on my network.  The ONLY way I've gotten it to show up is with a clean install. I'm really hoping there's a workaround here as I don't want to spend the hours necessary to get everything set up again

[JorgeB]

Couple of things to try:

 

Delete/rename /boot/config/network.cfg and reboot, it will default to DHCP.

 

Iif SSL is enable edit config/ident.cfg on the flash drive and change USE_SSL from "yes" to "no", then reboot.

 

Also you only have one NIC, right?

[Mglomniac]

The mobo has two built in NIC's. 

 

I've deleted the network.cfg when I did the clean install but upon reboot, it immediately runs into the same issue. I'll try changing SSL to no to see what happens there. 

[JorgeB]

Just now, Mglomniac said:

The mobo has two built in NIC's. 

In that case recommend updating to v6.10.3-rc1, multiple NIC discovery doesn't always work with v6.10.2.

[Mglomniac]

Should I try to upgrade directly through the OS to 6.10.3-rc1? or should I manually download the RC canidate, and then perform the manual upgrade? 

[itimpi]

32 minutes ago, Mglomniac said:

Should I try to upgrade directly through the OS to 6.10.3-rc1? or should I manually download the RC canidate, and then perform the manual upgrade? 

Either should work so go with whatever you think is easiest/most convenient.

[Mglomniac]

I tried updating from the OS and it still does not connect to the network at all. I cannot even get firefox to load properly on the gui screen to show me the dashboard. 

[Mglomniac]

I also deleted the network.confg and changed ssl to no, still nothing. 

[JorgeB]

Update manually, download the zip and extract the bz* files to the flash drive overwriting existing ones.

[Mglomniac]

So after all of that - unseating the ethernet cable, updating and then reseating the ethernet worked. 🤷‍♂️