OMV cannot save settings any more & installs the same updates every day again

Hello, dear community,

I have a problem which I couldn't solve since days, googling didn't help:

Since some weeks OMV started to install the same list of updates every day. It installes exactly the same versions of packages over the existing ones that already have these versions.

Today I tried to turn off the "backports" repo, since I thought it could cause the issues. But OMV can't save this setting any more (which worked months ago), it reports the error message following at the end of this post. If I click "Apply" config changes in the yellow message on top of the screen, the same error appears. I can revert, but also after rebooting the problem persists.

How can I fix this?

My system is version 5.6.5-1 on a raspberry pi 4B.

Thanks a lot & best regards,

Sil

--error message--

Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; omv-salt deploy run --no-color omvextras 2>&1' with exit code '1': nas2: ---------- ID: omvextrasbaserepo Function: pkgrepo.managed Name: deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul main Result: True Comment: Package repo 'deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul main' already configured Started: 20:53:20.228533 Duration: 313.622 ms Changes: ---------- ID: deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul-testing main Function: pkgrepo.absent Result: True Comment: Package repo deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul-testing main is absent Started: 20:53:20.542555 Duration: 148.867 ms Changes: ---------- ID: deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul-extras main Function: pkgrepo.managed Result: True Comment: Package repo 'deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul-extras main' already configured Started: 20:53:20.691825 Duration: 363.059 ms Changes: ---------- ID: deb [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable Function: pkgrepo.managed Result: True Comment: Package repo 'deb [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable' already configured Started: 20:53:21.055288 Duration: 291.442 ms Changes: ---------- ID: deb http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main Function: pkgrepo.absent Result: True Comment: Package repo deb http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main is absent Started: 20:53:21.347130 Duration: 147.941 ms Changes: ---------- ID: configure_apt_pref_omvextras Function: file.managed Name: /etc/apt/preferences.d/omvextras.pref Result: True Comment: File /etc/apt/preferences.d/omvextras.pref is in the correct state Started: 20:53:21.500077 Duration: 125.394 ms Changes: ---------- ID: refresh_database_apt Function: module.run Name: pkg.refresh_db Result: False Comment: No function provided. Started: 20:53:21.627528 Duration: 1.606 ms Changes: Summary for nas2 ------------ Succeeded: 6 Failed: 1 ------------ Total states run: 7 Total run time: 1.392 s

Error #0:

OMV\ExecException: Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; omv-salt deploy run --no-color omvextras 2>&1' with exit code '1': nas2:

----------

ID: omvextrasbaserepo

Function: pkgrepo.managed

Name: deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul main

Result: True

Comment: Package repo 'deb https://openmediavault-plugin-…github.io/packages/debian usul main' already configured

Started: 20:53:20.228533

Duration: 313.622 ms

Hi, macom,

after reading the thread you mentioned above I checked the contents of the *.list files and executed the following:

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault-os-security.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault-os-security.bak

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault-kernel-backports.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault-kernel-backports.bak

sudo apt-get update

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapt-inst2.0:armhf.md5sums

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libapt-inst2.0

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Not sure if "sudo apt-get --reinstall install libapt-inst2.0" is required in my case, but to be on the safe side...

Then I rebooted the OMV-raspberry via the webinterface.

It looks good now, at least I am able to change and apply configuration changes again!

I will observe if it continues to re-install the same things every day, but I think I had the issue having raspbian- and debian-packet-sources configured. So it's better not to touch the "Backports" switch under raspbian again.

Thank you very much for your great and quick help !

Best regards,

Sil