Successful, but messy and slow, upgrade to 2.4.4.

rmaeder

I upgraded my apu1 from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, via the serial console.
The upgrade docs warned about possible php errors during the upgrade, and it was quite messy, but eventually successful.
The second part of the upgrade, after the reboot, took over 40min. During that time the unit appears completely dead, as not even a ping is answered. I assume that some of the reports about failed upgrades are due to the fact that it takes so long and the unit does appear dead during the entire time. For this reason I always upgrade over a serial connection.
Roman

jimp

What type of disk do you have? SD card, mSATA, something else?

I could see it maybe taking that long with an SD card. There are a large number of operations that involve massive amounts of small files.

chudak

@jimp said in Successful, but messy and slow, upgrade to 2.4.4.:

What type of disk do you have? SD card, mSATA, something else?

I could see it maybe taking that long with an SD card. There are a large number of operations that involve massive amounts of small files.

Is it what planned to be address in next point release ?

jimp

No, that's how updates work now with pkg.

The old update method is not much better there, and had many other deficiencies. If it's a problem, get a faster disk. mSATA or M.2 SSDs are super cheap. No reason to be running on SD card media in 2018 if the hardware supports better options.

chudak

@jimp said in Successful, but messy and slow, upgrade to 2.4.4.:

No, that's how updates work now with pkg.

The old update method is not much better there, and had many other deficiencies. If it's a problem, get a faster disk. mSATA or M.2 SSDs are super cheap. No reason to be running on SD card media in 2018 if the hardware supports better options.

The PHP errors will be ?

jimp

@chudak said in Successful, but messy and slow, upgrade to 2.4.4.:

@jimp said in Successful, but messy and slow, upgrade to 2.4.4.:

No, that's how updates work now with pkg.

The old update method is not much better there, and had many other deficiencies. If it's a problem, get a faster disk. mSATA or M.2 SSDs are super cheap. No reason to be running on SD card media in 2018 if the hardware supports better options.

The PHP errors will be ?

There is nothing in this thread referring to PHP errors. We're talking about upgrade speed.

rmaeder

it is a class 10 SDHC, 4GB. The slow speed shouldn't matter in normal operation, I assume.
But I'll get something faster occasionally. That 40min without any internet connection was painful.

Roman