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Sophie & Christian asked

Do not succeed to install Venus OS Large on my Raspi3B ...

Dear menbers ... this is my 1st question here, sorry for that "simply" question.

I'm new with Victron, know a few SignalK & NodeRed and just discover Venus OS on Raspi3B.

After reading a lot the posts, i succeeded to install Venus OS vers. 2.73 on my Raspi3B, fine.

Now, I'll enjoy try the Venus OS Large version with SignalK and NodeRed.

I've got the .swu last version of OS v2.80~21 and copy it to a USB key that i plugged in my Raspi3B.

The Venus OS 2.73 see a new version that i installed with Menus>Software>Install from USB.

Everything seems ok, that is no Error message, but ... i never obtain/change from 2.73 to 2.80Large.

Try several times also with older versions OS Large with .swu files.

I don't know how to do, i don't know what can the problem ...

My SD card is FAT32 16Gb.

I really appreciate some help from you, recognised experts on the topic.

Thanks in advance, regards. Christian

Venus OSRaspberry Pi
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Sophie & Christian answered ·

Another idea ... where can i find ...sdimg.zip or ...wic.gz of Venus OS large ?

I just found .swu versions on Dropbox but the only way to use it I found is to update version with an already install Venus OS version (not Large version) ... on Raspi3B

Many thanks

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dmq answered ·

Format of sd should be ok. Do you click twice on the image in the offline update menu until it says "installing"?

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Sophie & Christian answered ·

@dmq, thank you for your help.

Yes, of course, i clicked twice in this menu ... it returned "installing the version" and after "nothing", no error, no install ..

Hiowever, with the same process, i succeeded to install the v2.80 of Venus OS but not the Large version.

Probably, an update from a Non Large version to a Large one is not allowed ?

Waiting for help to confirm ...

Thanks again, regards.

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dmq answered ·

I did it a few minutes ago: 2.73 -> 2.80-21 23 Large.

Do you see any hints in this file?

/var/log/swupdate/current

Should look like this:


@4000000061a1292f15dc273c *** Checking for updates ***
@4000000061a1292f15dc4a64 arguments: -check -offline -force
@4000000061a1292f1768baac Searching for update on SD/USB...
@4000000061a1292f1885d6f4 Update found on /media/sda1
@4000000061a1292f18ad7b64 Retrieving latest version... (from /media/sda1/venus-swu-2-raspberrypi2-20210925204443-v2.80~21-large-23.swu)
@4000000061a1292f1ace4c0c installed: 20210830185719 v2.73
@4000000061a1292f1ace731c available: 20210925204443 v2.80~21-large-23
@4000000061a1294125111514 *** Checking for updates ***
@4000000061a129412515dbbc arguments: -update -offline -force
@4000000061a12941267eddb4 Searching for update on SD/USB...
@4000000061a129412760c5bc Update found on /media/sda1
@4000000061a12941277e2d14 Retrieving latest version... (from /media/sda1/venus-swu-2-raspberrypi2-20210925204443-v2.80~21-large-23.swu)
@4000000061a1294129b78314 installed: 20210830185719 v2.73
@4000000061a1294129bda564 available: 20210925204443 v2.80~21-large-23
@4000000061a129412b43eb8c Starting swupdate to install version 20210925204443 v2.80~21-large-23 ...
@4000000061a129412f56ef44 software set: stable mode: copy2
@4000000061a129412f6e8a3c Swupdate v2016.10.0
@4000000061a129412f70a164 
@4000000061a129412f725acc Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed copyright notices.
@4000000061a129412f7b3c3c 
@4000000061a129412f7b47f4 Registered handlers:
@4000000061a129412f7dd834 archive
@4000000061a129412f7ea354 tar
@4000000061a129412f7f5aec raw
@4000000061a129412f800ab4 rawfile
@4000000061a129412f81200c uboot
@4000000061a129412f81feb4 Main loop Daemon
@4000000061a129412f84063c [NOTIFY] : SWUPDATE running :  [extract_sw_description] : Found file:
@4000000061a129412f8c245c filename sw-description
@4000000061a129412f8fba54 size 633
@4000000061a129412f90fe8c checksum 0xa25f VERIFIED
@4000000061a129412f942b0c 
@4000000061a129412fa5e234 Version 0.1.0


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Sophie & Christian answered ·

Thanks for your precious help.

I don't know this file (do not forget i'm not a specialist), but i found it.

Yes, this file indicates the following error ... "gunzip error "

ERROR.txt

Also, i found a trace of a correct previous update (no large version)

GOOD.txt

If you have any idea how to solve it ?

Regards


error.txt (2.8 KiB)
good.txt (2.6 KiB)
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dmq answered ·

Here is the error:

@4000000061a13faa3627de64 ERROR core/cpio_utils.c : copyfile : 190 : gunzip failure -5 (errno 28) -- aborting
@4000000061a13faa36750464
@4000000061a13faa36750c34 [NOTIFY] : SWUPDATE failed [0] ERROR core/cpio_utils.c : copyfile : 190 : gunzip failure -5 (errno 28) -- aborting
@4000000061a13faa3675278c
@4000000061a13fc22c6159dc [NOTIFY] : SWUPDATE running :  [install_single_image] : Installer for raw not successful !
@4000000061a13fc22ea765c4 Software updated failed

I would need to check the script (I think line 190) - my installation is now offline. I think at this stage gunzip decompresses to the uboot environment. Could be a permission error.

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dmq answered ·

Could also be a filespace issue.

Can you post a df -Th or df -h or df -k (at the moment I am not sure which parameters a valid in this distro).

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Sophie & Christian answered ·

Dear dmq,

very good news this morning ... thanks to your precious help, i can announce that i-we solved my problem.

Yes it works, very fine, and you're right my initial SD card was only 16GB and i changed for a 128GB that works perfectly.

More largely, i want to send my biggest thanks to all the famous contributors of this site ...

Victron Energy venus OS large + SignalK + NodeRed ... it's Chritsmas

Best from south of France

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