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DrKov
Aspirant
Jul 31, 2018
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Failed 6.9.3 upgrade RN516

Hi,  Attempted an upgrade from 6.9.2 -> 6.9.3, got "ERR: could not properly extract.." Tried re-install OS, USB-Recover but no success.  Root partition has plenty of space... Unit is used for bac...
Installation & Upgrade
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Jul 31, 2018

    For some reason the immutable bit was set on /bin and /etc/crontab and /lib. This prevented the extraction from happening. After removing the immutable bit on those the extraction ran fine.

    I've replied to your PM.

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DrKov
Aspirant
Jul 31, 2018

Thanks, 

I did some modifications awhile ago when my NAS got hacked, don't remember exactly the steps I took to clean it. I had SSH open in my firewall, which was stupid. Sent you PM. 

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 31, 2018

For some reason the immutable bit was set on /bin and /etc/crontab and /lib. This prevented the extraction from happening. After removing the immutable bit on those the extraction ran fine.

I've replied to your PM.

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    DrKov
    Aspirant
    Aug 01, 2018
    Everything fixed now thanks to the superb mdgm! Thanks again!
    mdgm-ntgr wrote:

    For some reason the immutable bit was set on /bin and /etc/crontab and /lib. This prevented the extraction from happening. After removing the immutable bit on those the extraction ran fine.

    I've replied to your PM.

     

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