SOLVED: Cannot upgrade anymore on my OMV 5.x after the repository migration from BinTray to GitHub

Environment

• Odroid Home Cloud 2 (ARM based SBC)
  • Open Media Vault 5.5.17-3 (Usul) — managed to upgrade to --> 5.6.21-2
  • Kernel Linux 4.14.204-odroidxu4 — managed to upgrade to --> 4.14.222

How I had installed OMV in 6/2020

• I had installed via the guide: Installing OMV on Single Board Computers
• Flashed SD with image from https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1/ : Armbian_20.05.1_Odroidxu4_buster_legacy_4.14.180.img
• Inserted SD and booted for initial Armbian setup
• Connected via SSH with default credentials root/1234. Changed credentials.
• Ran: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot
• Connected via SSH
• Installed OMV with single liner:
  wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/packages/raw/master/install | bash

Problem now in 12/2021

• Ran OMV for a few months in 2020.
  • Upgraded here and then.
  • Then didn't use it actively in 2021.
  • Though I let it ran idle to see how reliable it is: 100% uptime!
• Now wanted to use it again, wanted to upgrade. Cannot upgrade anymore!
  • Web-UI > System > Update Management > Clicked "Check" --> Fails.

Goal

• I want to upgrade this to a more recent 5.x version or 6.x if that's recommended already
• I do not want to loose:
  • the config/customizations on SD card
  • the data on the EXT4 HDD
• The things I have extra to a base installation to my knowledge
  
  • Shairport Sync (AirPlay 1 audio player)
  • I did some manual bluetooth audio config, but later reset them AFAIR
  • I use a USB audio speaker (not sure anymore whether this needed a driver of config or worked out of the box)
• Kind of succeeded in upgrading 5.x — read below — but still seems to not be in a good state yet.

Fix attempts

• Web-UI > System > Update Management > Clicked "Check". --> Failed.
• The main problems as what I saw from the error messages/logs were:
  • repository changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable-updates' to 'oldstable-updates'
  • repository is no longer signed.
• Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras >
  • General Settings: Was like this:
    • Testing Repo OFF
    • Extras Repo ON
    • Backports ON
  • Set "Extras repo" to OFF (Thought: "be as slim as possible for the upgrade attempt")
• Web-UI > System > Update Management > Clicked "Check". --> Failed again.

More successful fix attempt, but not there yet

• Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras > Dropdown menu "Updates" has these entries:
  • update -> Failed again with the "no longer signed" warnings.
  • apt-get upgrade -> Seems to have worked. Upgrade ran for ca 30mins.

The following packages have been kept back:
  armbian-config
The following packages will be upgraded:
  [...]
149 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 108 MB of archives. After this operation, 1247 kB disk space will be freed.

At the end of the log was:

Errors were encountered while processing: openmediavault openmediavault-shairport 

And with the popup having the CLOSE button already active, at the very end of the log the follwing message kept repeating ca. every 1 sec:

>>> *************** Error ***************
Invalid RPC response. Please check the syslog for more information.
<<< *************************************

• Web-UI > System > Update Management > Now only listed:
  armbian-config, zip
• Web-UI > System > Rotating error > Hovering over it said "System needs to be rebooted"
• Rebooted.
• Web-UI > System: Shows that it has indeed upgraded to:
  • Open Media Vault 5.6.21-2 (Usul)
  • Kernel Linux 4.14.222-odroidxu4

Realized a dist-upgrade seems necessary

https://askubuntu.com/question…-than-upgrade/99039#99039

Quote

Notice how an apt-get upgrade will say that the kernel packages have been held back. That's the cue for using apt-get dist-upgrade.

• As armbian-config has been held back in my more successful fix attempt (see previous section) I interpreted this as a cue that I need to run dist-upgrade.
• Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras > Dropdown menu "Updates" > dist-upgrade

1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 354 kB of archives.
After this operation, 507 kB of additional disk space will be used.

• Okay! dist-upgrade seems to have "picked up the rest".
• Web-UI > System > Update Management > Now lists nothing.

Some problems seem to remain

• Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras > Already disabled TestingRepo and ExtrasRepo.
  • But cannot disable Backports. If I do that and SAVE I get an error.
    See: 6a-omv-extras.attempting-to-disable-backports-repo-fails.txt
  • Hence I reverted that change (in the yellow top bar).
• Web-UI > System > Plugins > Clicking "Check" fails.
  • The main problem seems:
    The repository 'https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/usul buster InRelease' is not signed.
See: 6b-plugins-check-fails.txt

Help appreciated!

The one liner "Install from GitHub" script fixed the issue

1. Ran the "Install from GitHub" one line script as instructed here:
   https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…ges/blob/master/README.md
2. Web-UI > System > Update Management: Listed 2 packages. Selected them. Clicked Install. Worked fine!
3. Did not reboot. Continued using it.
4. Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras > Reactivated "Extras Repo" which I had deactivated in an unnecessary fix attempt before. Clicked SAVE.
   • Ran for a while. Eventually gave error dialog with "communication failure".
     Also the details just said "communication failure". Nothing more.
   • Went elsewhere in the menu.
   • Went back to: Web-UI > System > OMV-Extras:
     "Extras Repo" still showed as active. Looks good as if the "communication error" was a false alarm.
   • To be absolutely sure, I rebooted. Then checked again. Still active. Nice! Was a false alarm indeed.
5. Web-UI > Services > SSH: Permit root login: Disabled this as recommended by @chente. Save. Apply config change.
6. Tested Airplay and Samba. Worked.

👍 thanks chente this was indeed the issue at hand!

• Updated the post title accordingly!
• This post can be considered as SOLVED. 🙂

ryecoaaron Updated my post accordingly.

chente Ofc regularly updating is a good habit. I just didn't use my NAS for a year, was not needed. Will keep upgrading regularly when actively in use. 6.x already recommended for normal users?