Error when upgrading 6.9.16-1 -> 7.x - "Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xde' in file /usr/bin/py3clean"

Apologies if I've missed a post that deals with this already - I took a look but couldn't spot anything addressing this problem. I'm running OMV 6.9.16-1 Shaitan on an old Raspberry Pi 3 with a couple of external drives attached for storage. While it's been running relatively well, I've had two recent problems.

First, I'm unable to update package python3-pkg-resources 52.0.0-4+deb11u1 using the OMV6 update interface. When I try I get the following error message:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  python3-pkg-resources
apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/190 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
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Preparing to unpack .../python3-pkg-resources_52.0.0-4+deb11u1_all.deb ...
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xde' in file /usr/bin/py3clean on line 20, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
dpkg: warning: old python3-pkg-resources package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xde' in file /usr/bin/py3clean on line 20, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-pkg-resources_52.0.0-4+deb11u1_all.deb (--unpack):
 new python3-pkg-resources package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-pkg-resources_52.0.0-4+deb11u1_all.deb

Second, I installed an additional external HDD and accidentally chose the wrong shared folder for my Samba connection. I'm unable to figure out what I need to turn off in order to delete the connection (have switched off Portainer, SMB, etc. with no success), which is a bit annoying. However, I saw that OMV7.x has a Reset Permissions Plugin, so figured it would be easier to simply backup my Pi's SD card and upgrade the entire setup to OMV7.

Unfortunately, when I try to run omv-release-upgrade, I get the same python3 package error as above. I've no idea how to fix the problem - there's a URL in the error message, but being a novice to all this I couldn't figure out what troubleshooting steps I need to do to fix (what I assume to be) the syntax error and successfully install python3/OMV7.x.

Grateful for any guidance others may have to address this problem!

Update:

I figured out that you can install the Reset Permissions Plugin on OMV6, so have done that and fixed the issue with the external drives. However, still unable to upgrade to OMV7.x, if anyone knows how to fix this problem?

Quote from chente

Is your system 32 or 64 bits?

It's a Pi 3+ which seems to be 64-bit?

Quote from chente

I already know that, but it doesn't tell me which system is installed. What is the output of:

uname -m

It's aarch64

Quote from chente

Maybe this will help

Post

RE: Segmentation fault

I would suggest to reinstall all python packages, to ensure a clean installation.

List the packages

(Code, 1 line)


Then run

(Code, 1 line)

votdev

Aug 9th 2024

Yes, this seems to have done the trick - thanks for the help!