OMV uninstalled after omv-update

gon123 · Jul 6th 2015

After make "omv-update" all my omv distribution has gone
I'm going to reinstall the system but I would like to know why

ryecoaaron · Jul 6th 2015

There must have been an dependency problem. Do you have a desktop environment installed?

gon123 · Jul 6th 2015

No, omv 2.1 defautl, and 3.16 backports.
I have console acces.

I was going to follow this thread: Kodi (formerly XBMC) for OMV
but after first step I can't lol

ryecoaaron · Jul 6th 2015

Hard to say. Look through the logs in /var/log/apt/ and /var/log/dpkg.log.

gon123 · Jul 6th 2015

I think the easiest solution it's to reinstall the so.
I have just 2 questions.
I have an ssd for the system, is the default installer format a good method for format? or could it damage my ssd?
and, what's the best practice to update the system, I used to use apt-get/aptitude update and upgrade but i don't want this to happen aggain.
Thanks rye!

ryecoaaron · Jul 6th 2015

I would do the following:
- Use the OMV iso to install on SSD
- Fully update the system using the web interface
- Install omv-extras
- I recommend installing openmediavault-flashmemory

epint · Jul 7th 2015

Same problem, I ran omv-update on 1.x and lost OMV installation!

Any solution to recover/reinstall OMV and keep all my settings?

ryecoaaron · Jul 7th 2015

If your /etc/openmediavault/config.xml file is still there, you might be ok. Don't you have a backup?

epint · Jul 7th 2015

Did you mean /etc/openmediavault/config.xml ? Yes, it's still there. Disks are also normaly mounted, samba is working, etc..

So what should I do to install openmediavault 1.x back and keep my config, shares, users, files on OS partition..

I have an older backup, I think it's crated with backup plugin from extras, but restoring from it would be my last resort.

ryecoaaron · Jul 7th 2015

You could try to reinstall openmediavault again then:

cp /etc/openmediavault/config.xml /root/
apt-get install openmediavault

epint · Jul 7th 2015

I get:

Code

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:


 openmediavault : Depends: php5-pam but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: proftpd-mod-vroot but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: php5-proctitle but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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To note, this is the first time I ran mov-update, normally I was updating through web console or with apt-get upgrade.

ryecoaaron · Jul 7th 2015

You upgraded to Jessie. You need to fix the items in this thread before using omv-update. And no, you can't downgrade. I would rsync the files create by the backup plugin to your os drive and hope it works.

epint · Jul 7th 2015

What I was doing was following official upgrade instructions from here:

Upgrade to OMV 2.x

This thread should definitely be updated with safer instructions..

I planned to do fresh backup before upgrade (after update to latest 1.x, but things went wrong on that step).

ryecoaaron · Jul 7th 2015

The newest version of omv checks for the problem and that is what the instructions were written for. Unfortunately, you were not on the latest version because of the fairly rare bug. I will make a note on the guide.

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