[Solved] Manual update necessary?

Sounds odd. All eBlocker Lifetime users should get updates automatically.

Try to use the new license code:

Settings > License & Updates > Activate New License (at bottom of page)

Enter following license code:

FAMLFT-DEMO

Shutdown device (System > Reboot > Shutdown) and disconnect power for 1min. Then reconnect...

@benne

Ok, thank you for your effort.
I tried it as described, but without success.
It says, "No updates available" when I click on "check now" for manual updates.

Still the same versions, unfortunately.

eBlockerOS Version 2.3.7
eBlocker Blocker Lists Version 2019-06-04-04-00-07

I ran the diagnostics report and looked through the files.
I do not know much about linux, but I found this in the install-eblocker-updates.log

Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie InRelease
Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie InRelease
Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie InRelease
Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main armhf Packages
Get:1 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main armhf Packages
Get:2 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:3 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:4 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:5 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:6 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:7 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:8 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Hit https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main armhf Packages
Get:9 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:10 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Ign https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en
Get:11 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Ign https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en
Get:12 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:13 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:14 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Get:15 https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en [162 B]
Ign https://apt.eblocker.com jessie/main Translation-en
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

This is beyond my knowledge. Sorry!

@bpr can you please help here?

It seems that a previous update was interrupted.

We had a repair skript for this (see below), but there is no guarantee that it works.

The safest thing would be to download the M2+ image from https://eblocker.org/en/eblockeros-download/ and write it to a micro SD card with Balena Etcher. If you take the M2+ board out of the case, you can plug in the SD card. If it is present, the M2+ will boot from this instead of the internal storage. You would lose your settings, however. You might be able to backup some of them in eBlocker's settings under System / Reset / Save Settings.

Alternatively, you could try the attached repair script:

• Unpack the ZIP file and copy the two included files to the root directory of a USB thumb drive (USB 2.0 / FAT16 or FAT32 formatted).
• Shut down the eBlocker, remove the power cable and plug in the USB thumb drive
• Attach the power cable
• eBlocker will boot up, run the repair skript and will shut down again
• If you are not sure, please wait at least 10 minutes
• Remove the power cable
• Remove the USB thumb drive
• Attach the power cable again.

Now you can try to update eBlocker again from the settings.

I ran the repair skript. It worked and the eBlocker it is up to date now.

Many thanks for your help.

Sorry to bump that thread.

I cannot update my orginal eBlocker with a Banana Pi M2+ on eBlockerOS Version 2.3.7. Trying to "run" the script "eblocker-repair" doesnt help. There is no update found.

Booting and running the Banana Pi M2+ from sdcard with the image "eBlocker-2.5.2-banana-pi-m2plus.img" works fine.

Is there a possibility to use the console to copy "eBlocker-2.5.2-banana-pi-m2plus.img" from an USB tumb drive to the emmc?

E.g. sudo dd if= xxx.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=10MB

@peschwar I don't have the answer but a question for you: Have you tried running eOS 2.5.x on M2+ (via SD) and downloaded some GB (i.e. a game or such) or left it running over a loooong period?

Background: We are experiencing issues (as you might have read) with sudden halts and reboots if booted from eMMC (although it's probably not related to that)

So unless we have a stable eOS version - I guess it makes no sense to copy it to eMMC. But I'll check back with the developer team about your question.

THX!

@peschwar

If you want to be on the safe side

• Create an sdcard with armbian os (at least 16GB sdcard, or use usb stick)
• Boot the sdcard and log on armbian (with monitor/keyboard/mouse)
• go to the location, where you want to put the backup of the emmc -> cd ./home for example
• dd if=/dev/mmcblk2 | gzip > ./image_mmcblk2.gz status=progress

When this has finished, you are on the safe side. You can restore the system to this state whenever needed.

To restore the gz image just do this

gzip -dc image_mmcblk2.gz |sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk2 status=progress

AND

as there is no console in eBlockerOS enabled, you can use the armbian os sdcard to dd the image as I wrote before to the internal emmc 🙂

Regards

Sven

@calimero @peschwar Currently testing a new alpha 2.5.x for M2+ since yesterday. You might want to wait until this is final and officially released before taking efforts to copying an unstable version to eMMC...

@peschwar see here for the current state: https://eblocker.org/community/announcements/white-cube-eos-2-5-upgrade-development-status/#post-1768

As you are obviously a tech geek we‘d be happy if you‘d join the volunteers team for alpha testing. Just let me know and I open doors to the internal development forum for you...