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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.
GWB3 wrote:
I found a way to stop the Admin signon cycle on my four RN102 NAs units. Why this works is not clear at all to me.
I log on to my NAS units, I see the main page and "quickly" click on Settings.
One the next page I quickly click on the arrow shown under the Check for Updates heading.
I select Beta. For reasons unknown to me this stops the cycling of the admin signon.
In all four cases this was successful with no other modifications necessary.
Why this worked is not at all clear to me but I am glad to get these units back to a stable firmware 10.6.4.
Thx for sharing. The NAS does automatically check for updates when you log in, and changing the setting does change what it looks for.
It'd be interesting to know what setting you were using before. My own NAS are all set to "stable" and I have not seen the issue on three NAS. I'm wondering if you were using that, or "long-term support"
Looping in JohnCM_S and Marc_V as this might be useful info for the Netgear folks who are looking into this.
I normally have my setting to "Stable". The momentary change I made was simply to try to change soemthing on the screen that might interupt the signon loop. So changing that setting from stable to beta was only a temporary change that interupted the signon loop in some way.
Once I was able to interupt the signon loop and before I signed off I changed that setting back to Stable. Then did the firmware update on the right side of same page. I found firmware 6.10.4 on the Netgear site for the RN102 hardware.
GWB3 wrote:
I normally have my setting to "Stable".
Which means that it's not directly linked to that setting (since I also use it, and haven't experienced the problem).
I came to the same Problem when updating my RN102 to 6.10.5 today. Unfortunatly I didn't read this conversation before.
Chaning |SETTINGS |CHECK FOR UPDATES from Stable to Long-Term and back interupts the loop and I'm able to edit the admin page - up to the next log in.
It helps for the moment, but a sustainable solution to the problem by Netgear would be desirable.
Regards
Thomas
Were you able to re-install firmware 6.10.4 to at least get back to a stable configuration?
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