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dmacleo's avatar
dmacleo
Guide
Nov 21, 2016
Solved

Available Apps page blank

rn314 with 4 4tbdrives firmware 6.6.0, had this issue hit me 11-19-2016 just few days (3 maybe) after upgrading to 6.6.0.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-to-ReadyNAS/RN204-volume-lost/td-p/1173539/jump-to/first-unread-message

since this was used for media and I had backups I just created new volume and restored files from nightly backup.

but my available apps page shows nothing,

 

 

I can manually download and install apps and they show under installed apps and seemm to work, plex is only one I make lot of use of.

 

I did try manually reinstalling 6.6.0 but it did not help, this require a factory reset and reinstall?

 

  • yeah factory defaults worked.

    I think I could have deleted volume and done OS reinstall and that may have worked but at that point factory default was just easier really.

    so copying stuff back over now.

     

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User

    Plex isn't distributed by Netgear anymore, so you need to manually upload that one anyway.

     

    The list of available apps shown in the UI is stored in the /apps folder itself - you might want to simply wait a while, and see if it populates.

    • dmacleo's avatar
      dmacleo
      Guide

      yeah I forgot about plex but still, others should show.

      been 36 hours or so , shoul dbe enough time.

      /apps only has the 3 I manually installed (2 downloaded from netgear apps page) so not sure why not showing there.

       

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User

        dmacleo wrote:

        been 36 hours or so , shoul dbe enough time.

         


        Maybe restart then.

         

        The available apps are in a hidden subfolder (/apps/.freeapps).  That list should be complete (including apps you've already installed).

         

        Mine looks like this:


        root@RN526X:/apps/.freeapps# ls -al
        total 0
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 1160 Nov 9 10:00 .
        drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 166 Nov 19 19:50 ..
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 ajaxplorer
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 asterisk-app
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 automatic
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 avplus
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 baikal
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 bindr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 bzeeetr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 couchpotato
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 ddclientr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 dnsserver
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 drupal
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 dvblink-tv-server
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 elc
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 glpi
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 htop
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 idrive
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 istat
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 joomla
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 kernelplus
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 koken
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 limesurvey
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 linux-dash
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 loganalyzerr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 memeoc1
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 monsta
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 mysqlr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 nastools-istatserver
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 nastools-logitechmediaserver
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 nastools-netdata
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 nastools-transmission
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 nastools-zoneminder
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 neromediahome
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 oraynewph
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 oscommerce
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 osticket
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 phpmyadminr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 phpr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 phpsysinfo
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 piwigo
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 prestashop
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 pydio
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 pythonr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 qbittorrentr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 recollweb
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 resilio-sync
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 selfoss
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 shellinabox
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 sickbeardr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 sickrage
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 smbplus
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 subversion-ntgr
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 sugarcrm
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 surveillance
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 tftpr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 tinyrss
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 transmissionr6
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 twonky
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 utserver
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 virtualhere
        drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 36 Nov 9 10:00 vpnserver

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