ReadyNas 6.2 (NAS locks up entirely)

My boss has instructed me to throw the RN104 in a dumpster

see ya wouldn't want to be ya

I uploaded with the beta 6.2.3-T1721... allready hanged again.
Is there a working beta now?

sbogar I sent you a PM.

Wansurfer, have you tried the latest beta? Can you send in your logs (see the link in my sig) so I can verify if your problem is likely the same as the others here or not.

My NAS it's "only" Multimedia storage so i can live with one or two freeze for week, waiting for solution, but i realy afraid sell this unit to production enviroment. I have clients with RN102 and RN104 lucky not updated to 6.2.x still on 6.1.9 and the units working flawesly. So I still waiting for solution and consider selling another brand of NAS.

I have two identical ReadyNAS 104 boxes (though purchased at separate times ... clue?). Newer one purchased April 2014. Old is at 'head office', new at 'remote location'. Both were stable initially (6.1.7, 6.1.9). I upgraded both to 6.2.0 in the failed hope of better features/user interface, and ever since have had terrible instability issues on the 'remote' unit - but not the 'head office' unit. I upgraded to 6.2.2 in the hope of remedies, but no luck. Unit locks up within 24 hours, hard power unplug/replug required to recover. Nothing is going on with the remote unit (it's not being used in any way); the backup process I had has been abandoned, so all I do right now is hand-carry a USB drive between locations and then copy files from the USB to the remote NAS.

I have just upgraded to 6.2.3-T1721 in the hope of some stability.

I ordered a replacement earlier this week, thinking I may have a dud unit, but now seeing all the posts here on the forum I see this is a common problem. I'm tempted to return it unopened. IF support are willing to work with me on this (I'm an IT guy) I may consider keeping the new unit and even shipping the failing unit back to NetGear for analysis.

From the file 'initrd.log':
[2014/04/29 16:35:25] Updated from ReadyNASOS 6.1.7 (1396977042) to 6.1.7 (1396977042).
[2014/11/16 11:52:23] Updated from ReadyNASOS 6.1.7 (1396977042) to 6.1.9 (1409791183).
[2014/12/02 16:35:09] Updated from ReadyNASOS 6.1.9 () to 6.2.0 (ReadyNASOS).
[2014/12/26 16:35:04] Updated from ReadyNASOS 6.2.0 (ReadyNASOS) to 6.2.2 (ReadyNASOS).
[2015/03/26 14:25:26] Updated from ReadyNASOS 6.2.2 (ReadyNASOS) to 6.2.3-T1721 (ReadyNASOS).

Oh my - I just finished posting my previous post in this forum and I seem to be locked up already! 30 mins after upgrading to 6.2.3 T1721.

On my browser session, the clock is still ticking but that may be a local browser object. I can click between screens, but clicking on 'volumes' resulted in a spinning wheel where the drive layout should be. I can click on 'performance' and see drive temps/etc. I can click on 'overview' and see device info, but if I let the page sit there, I get the 'Connection Lost' 'The device is either busy or ...'. But I can 'cancel' that and still click around, a bit. I can click 'shares' and see my directories, when I click on a different folder, I see spinning progress wheel next to the folder, and a small progress line near the top, but the folder never displays content and I get the 'connection lost' message. So I would guess all the activity I'm seeing in the browser is due to browser-cached objects. I cannot ping the device ... yikes. That was not very successful. Next ... ?

Can all users still encountering this issue even after updating to the 6.2.3 beta firmware please reach out to me directly via PM.

In order to keep this message clearly visible I'm locking this thread. Discussion continues in part 2: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=80513