Readynas duo V2 unable to access admin page

OK, so using Firefox on a Linux VM worked -- sort of.  It recognized the add-on was a good one and did the upload.  But instead of telling me I had to re-boot and allowing me to do that (as the EnableRootSSH add-on does), the GUI locked up.  It made it look like I could re-boot, but nothing actually happened and a page refresh gave a no connection error.  I initially re-booted via SSH shutdown -r now, but I did a factory default and tried again, this time cycling power since not everyone will have SSH access.  Both methods worked.  The httpd.conf changes were made and Chrome reports ther GUI is using TLS1.2.

If somebody figures out a fix for using something other than Firefox, please chime in.  I know I did something different when I initially set this NAS up and installed EnableRootSSH_1.0-arm, but don't remember what it was.  Maybe what I did then (though it's only just over a year ago) just doesn't work anymore.

Would be interesting to learn what your NAS did during and after the installation of the add-on. The thing is that a reboot shouldn't be necessary  and that's why you're not informed. However, there should be a message telling you that the add-on was successfully installed. That said, the timing is a bit tricky there because the message queue is polled only so often and if the add-on restarts the web server before it pulled the message chances are the message is lost forever.

Anyway, the important thing is that a reboot shouldn't be necessary. You may have to refresh the browser window but that should be all. Would be cool if you could test with a factory reset NAS for that's the one thing I can't without losing my dev environment which lives on the NAS ;)

-Stefan

The message was that it did not install correctly, and a refresh is what showed the web server was locked up (at least, I think that's what caused the loss of GUI communications).  I didn't try restarting just apache via SSH.  Having repeated this after a factory default, I'm sure nothing I did beforehand had anything to do with it.  I did also try accessing the GUI from an entirely different computer, and it also would not connect, so it wasn't a sudden switch of T:LS protocol confusing the browser.  RAIDar still showed the NAS alive and happy.

My DuoV2 is strickly a sandbox, so let me know when you need another version tested and I'll default again.  You could, of course, just have a separate drive with a different volume for sandbox testing with the NAS you have.

Hi first off THANK YOU for the addon :smileyhappy:

I had the same experiance installing it though.

I used internet explorer which actually worked for installing addons.

The addon seemed to install ok and I actually got an email saying the addon was succesfully installed, but the web interface popped up saying the addon WAS NOT successfully installed :smileyindifferent:

So I clicked ok and then tried to restart the unit but i got a message saying the restart request wasn't sent or something ? Tried shutdown and got the same response.

So i pushed the power button on the front of the actual unit and the screen came on which said installing addon :smileyindifferent:

I waited a while and eventually just pressed the power button again and the installing addon message was still there but i pushed it again and it said push 1 more time to shut down. So i done that and It shutdown just fine.

I turned it back on again and tried accessing the web interface in firefox and this time did not get the message about TLS 1.0. I checked the page stats and sure enough it says its using TLS 1.2

So yeah it all seemed to install but just had a funny few mins afterwards.

Thanks again :smileyvery-happy:

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treboR2Robert wrote:

The addon seemed to install ok and I actually got an email saying the addon was succesfully installed, but the web interface popped up saying the addon WAS NOT successfully installed :smileyindifferent:

 

So I clicked ok and then tried to restart the unit but i got a message saying the restart request wasn't sent or something ? Tried shutdown and got the same response.

 

So i pushed the power button on the front of the actual unit and the screen came on which said installing addon :smileyindifferent:

 

I waited a while and eventually just pressed the power button again and the installing addon message was still there but i pushed it again and it said push 1 more time to shut down. So i done that and It shutdown just fine.

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I had to revisit installing this add-on and you are correct the addon does give a error message saying it didn't install correctly, however in the log file it still installs fine.

The issue where you had to force a shutdown with the power button is because after the add-on installs it disables the apache service..

To resolve this just simply SSH to your NAS and type apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf