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Firmware 6.10.5 web interface broken in final release
My RN10200 had a 2tb drive die - so I replaced with two 4TB Seagate Iron Wolf NAS drives. There was a notice that a new version of the firmware was available 6.10.5 so I figured I should update this....
I was eventually able to get Firefox on my laptop to get on the the NAS web interface after doing a lot of playing around clearing caches/histories, etc. So I chose the firmware update feature in the interface to go back to the 6.10.3 version. After a reboot this seem to allow access to the NAS interface from everywhere again. So I'm not sure what the advantages might be of 6.10.5 - but the problems with the web interface seem to negate any improvements that might be in the latest version. So I'd be wary of this available update and treat the latest version as being still in beta.
The 6.10.3 inteface does keep coming up and saying that a later release (6.10.4) is available and do I want to install that. But after my experience with 6.10.5 I think I'll keep replying to ignore the optional update and stick with 6.10.3 that has been stable for a long while.
Regards,
Chuck.
The following is my story, I try to be exact and detailed - maybe a bit too much.
I have this NAS for a good few years, and I kept the default admin/password (bad habit, I know). A few days ago I updated to 6.10.5. When I tried to log in after the update (using Chrome), I got redirected immediately to the password recovery page (which indicated that I never set up a recovery method). I panicked a bit, then tried another browser (Opera) and I could log in OK. Then I decided to be a reasonable admin, so I set a complex password, as well as a recovery method. Since then, the situation is the following: I still get directed to the password recovery page right away if using Chrome. With other browsers, I can log in, but before the admin page would load completely, it goes to "Connecting to the ReadyNAS Admin Page", the blue progress bar, and it starts over. No matter how fast I click on any link, I cannot do anything. I tried to shut down or restart, I could comfortably click on the menu items 2-3 times, but had no effect.
I ssh'd in and checked the journal. I found the below message (when I login with admin):
apache2[4403]: [auth_basic:error] [pid 4403] [client 192.168.1.50:33252] AH01618: user 1621794430734 not found: /admin/index.html, referer: http://192.16 8.1.102/admin/
.50 is my laptop, .102 is the NAS. The strange part is the "user 1621794430734" that is not found.
My impression (which may be totally wrong) is that my password change did not make it through all systems. It seems that the user databases got out of sync. "admin" is no longer known to certain parts of the web authentication system.
I get exactly this behaviour without having set up password recover.
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