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how to downgrade my NAS firmware from 6.10.10
Hi,
I'm not a developer geek and don't know how to use the codes or ssh
is there easy way to downgrade the OS .. I searched and found option
in admin page to do so .. but it requires me to upload the file for it and I don't have the old OS ..
the issue is that I can't update my Plex app anymore ..
Indeed, sources.list.d seems to be a place where apps can put their own sources.list and not worry that an OS update will change them. On my VM with Docker installed, it's sources list is there, called docker-cli-rnapp.list. Don't do anything with them. You need to put apt.conf and the updated sources.list in /etc/apt.
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makkistyle wrote:
is there easy way to downgrade the OS .. I searched and found option
in admin page to do so .. but it requires me to upload the file for it and I don't have the old OS ..
You can get it from here:
Best to extract it from the zip file before you upload.
makkistyle wrote:
I'm not a developer geek and don't know how to use the codes or ssh
the issue is that I can't update my Plex app anymore ...
Unfortunately, download back to 6.10.9 likely won't be enough. I believe you will find that you will need to update the two files in this thread:
You can download them from post 37 in the thread.
If you enable SSH on the NAS, you can then install them using WinSCP on the PC. If you set the protocol to SFTP, you should get access to the /etc folder from that GUI. This approach doesn't require knowledge of SSH commands.
Hi,
Thanks for your quick reply .. I manage to downgrade the OS only
the next step I was not able to connect to the server as SFTP
and wasn't able to use admin control panel ..
what the correct address to connect via SFTP app :
I use Mac app :
and in CP I activate the FTP but there was not option for SFTP:
what do you mean by GUI ?
~Here are the connections options I have in the app :
You need to enable ssh in the NAS in order to get sftp to work. Make sure you enable password authentication when you do that.
Also, log in as "root", not as "admin". But still use the NAS admin password.
Hello friends,
Thanks for finding a solution to the problem.
Unfortunately for me, i have followed the instructions but still get an error message - "apps operation failed" when I try to update my Plex.
I downgraded to 6.10.9, renamed the apt.conf.d to apt.conf.d.orig, renamed the sources.list that is already in the folder to sources.list.orig, added the mods to the /etc/apt folder and tried updating my Plex.
Please is there any step I am missing?
Sandshark StephenB any help will truly be appreciated.
Nothing in the instructions tell you to do anything with apt.conf.d. apt.conf probably doesn't exist on your NAS prior to this. After you make the changes, you also need to do an apt-get update.
- Apologies for not responding earlier. Realised my volume was read only so been backing up my content over the last few days. Did a factory reset so currently rebuilding the volume. Will retry after its all done.
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