New Release - My Book Live Firmware Version 02.11.09-053 (4/23/12)

[allanhutton]

i'm trying to upgrade via SSH and have downloaded the following file "apnc-021109-053-20120413.deb.crdownload" 

onto mybooklive 2tb. 

I've run the following command 

/usr/local/sbin/updateFirmwareFromFile.sh /DataVolume/shares/Public/apnc-021109-053-20120413.deb.crdownload 

and get the following output 

version_newfile=021109053
version_current=020202020

this all sounds wonderful but then i led light goes a purplewhite color and stays like that for more than 24 hours. My UI has also died.

After waiting 24hr i decided l have to reboot this thing so did a shutdown -r -t 10 "now" command which recovered the Drive and i could map to it again but the UI still does not work.

I've noticed a lot of people running the firmware without the crdownloader but cant imagin that makes any difference to the functioning of the install. 

can some let me know how long the firmware took to apply via the UI and also do i need to rename the file from "....deb.crdownload" to "....deb"

[mybookW2]

trying again! Thanks for the info, the timeout is a bit long on that.

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WDTony wrote:

Believe it or not, but that is actually good news for you. The download did not complete or was corrupted. Before, it would have stuck at that point, but with the new code, it will report back that error. Try again, or download the firmware and manually update it.

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[BarneyRubble]

21:26 - Starting update now via UI

21:34 - Rebooting 

21:39 - All done, and all Good

UI definately feels a bit more repsonsive, some nice cosmetic touches.

Most important of all everything still works well 

[allanhutton]

Okay, downloaded again looks like the problem is the first download was not complete and way the file ended in crdownload. i'm going to try rebooting and re-initiating with the new download.

[mybookW2]

Works now

[Myron]

Before the update process gets anywhere near to starting the MBL calculates the MD5 checksum and if not met with that's expected, the upgrade process should be aborted.

[allanhutton]

Thanks Barney....

I think that 24 hours was rather long. 

[allanhutton]

Okay, it all worked after the completed download. GUI much improved from 5-10 min load to 5-10 seconds. i can live with that. now its the perfect device.

[whsbuss]

Still will not sleep. Any suggestions?

[HumpMan]

Just wanted to report that this upgrade ran flawlessly.  Dashboard is humming along very nicely now.

I downloaded the whole upgrade package this morning and kept it on my PC.  After backing up my data a couple of times, I started the update process this evening using the UI which I had sped up using the etc/hosts file edit thing.

The update process completed in about 6.5 minutes and the MBL re-initialized in about 2 more minutes.

I checked for Internent access and it was good.  Did a firmware update check and got an immediate reponse that my software was up to date.  Got the alert e-mail from the MBL about the sucessful firmware update.

My MBL is happy.  I am happy.

the HumpMan