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Unable to Install or uninstall apps since 6.10.10 firmware upgrade
Hi I currently have a ReadyNAS 214 device which after updating to firmware version 6.10.10, no longer allows me to install or update apps via the admin page as Netgear have now disabled it I...
Rickjones80 wrote:
I currently have a ReadyNAS 214 device which after updating to firmware version 6.10.10, no longer allows me to install or update apps via the admin page as Netgear have now disabled it
Any advice would be very much appreciated
You can downgrade back to 6.10.9.
Rickjones80 wrote:
will I be able to install Plex again via SSH for example?
Whether you downgrade or not, you'll also need to make the changes here:
Posts 1 and 37 are particularly relevant.
Once those changes are made, you will be able to install plex from ssh. And if you downgrade, you would also be able to install it from the web ui.
One caveat - Plex likely won't be providing the app for ReadyNAS indefinitely. You should keep a copy of the deb file. Even then you will likely have to install Plex on a different platform at some point in the future. Personally I run the Plex server on a PC, but keep the media files on my ReadyNAS.
Rickjones80 wrote:
I currently have a ReadyNAS 214 device which after updating to firmware version 6.10.10, no longer allows me to install or update apps via the admin page as Netgear have now disabled it
Any advice would be very much appreciated
You can downgrade back to 6.10.9.
Rickjones80 wrote:
will I be able to install Plex again via SSH for example?
Whether you downgrade or not, you'll also need to make the changes here:
Posts 1 and 37 are particularly relevant.
Once those changes are made, you will be able to install plex from ssh. And if you downgrade, you would also be able to install it from the web ui.
One caveat - Plex likely won't be providing the app for ReadyNAS indefinitely. You should keep a copy of the deb file. Even then you will likely have to install Plex on a different platform at some point in the future. Personally I run the Plex server on a PC, but keep the media files on my ReadyNAS.
Thank you, I have kept a copy of the Plex deb file and I have now amended my apt sources list which has allowed me to install apps again via ssh
I am also keeping a copy of the 6.10.9 firmware file just in case I decide to downgrade at any point.
Thanks again for your help! 🙂
I'm SO glad I didn't just auto-update. I saw the mention of the "Apps" change in the release notes and it made me want to check around a bit first.
So what is the overall direction here? Is Netgear closing ROS to apps? Is ROS getting deprecated, such that developers just wouldn't bother with it any more? Seems like it's time for a new NAS platform... but I'm curious whatever anyone knows about what's coming.
I've been quite pleased with this platform, even since before it was with Netgear. It's just sad to see a change like this coming and it makes me wonder what next better option there is.
Netgear has clearly already left the NAS market. Given that the Linux version on which the OS is based has been archived, loading apps was already impossible without making changes that could (though very unlikely) open up a path for an attacker. 6.10.10 now makes one aware of the inability to load apps instead of it just failing.
There never was an active developer base for ReadyNAS apps, and those few that were doing so have mostly gone away. But those who do use Plex or another app that is still being updated do have an issue. And so will anyone who uses apps and needs to factory default their NAS.
I personally don't believe that a change with this kind of impact should have ever been put on the update server. A version that just removed ReadyCloud would have been fine, since it's dead, but the inability to load apps should either have been made configurable or not done at all.
I can't believe this firmware update change! I have invested in two Netgear RN628X NAS devices with very expensive, large hard drives. One NAS has 8 hard drives, the other one 6 hard drives. I use them as my PLEX servers and also to store all of my media, including 3 computer backups. I think it is criminal that Netgear would release firmware that kills significant functionality and not warn people in advance. A brief mention in the release notes is not enough! Why even bother to kill the app functionality? They could have just left the firmware at 6.10.9 and never done any more updates.
I also have never heard that Netgear was letting their NAS business go away.
I would really like to keep updating the PLEX servers for ReadyNAS as long as there are releases. I have downloaded a new release that I couldn't install. Is there a trick to downgrading back to the 6.10.9 firmware? I actually think my last firmware was 6.10.8, not 6.10.9. How can you even downgrade now that the upload option is gone?
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