2.9.17.... or is it 2.9.13 ??

RouterOS General
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I attempted to upgrade from 2.9.13 to 2.9.17 this morning, and it didn’t work. or, it half-worked. or it fully worked… I just am not sure..

As usual, I uploaded the new .npk to the Routerboard 500 for 2.9.17, and issued a “/system reboot”. During the shutdown portion of the reboot, the kernel panicked; i couldn’t tell what process caused the panic, but there was just multiple, continuous spew of kernel-panic info across the serial console. After a bit, I power-cycled the unit, and it came back up.

Here’s the interesting part: On login, it shows 2.9.13 on the login banner.
But doing a “/system package print” I get:

[admin@sentry] > /system package print
Flags: X - disabled
 #   NAME                      VERSION                  SCHEDULED
 0   ppp                       2.9.13
 1   routeros-rb500            2.9.17
 2 X rstp-bridge-test          2.9.13
 3   webproxy-test             2.9.13
 4   system                    2.9.13
 5   routerboard               2.9.13
 6   advanced-tools            2.9.13
 7   ntp                       2.9.13
 8   dhcp                      2.9.13
 9   hotspot                   2.9.13
10   security                  2.9.13
11   routing                   2.9.13
12 X wireless                  2.9.13
13 X routing-test              2.9.13
[admin@sentry] >

Note the 2.9.17 on the roueteros-rb500.

I was able to downgrade back to 2.9.13, and attempt the upgrade to 2.9.17 with the same results of kernel-panic’s and partial-(appearing) install.

Any advice on how to get everything up to 2.9.17 ??

Thanks,
David

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the routeros package contains all packages, so you don’t need the rest. you can remove them. you only need that one package

3

Why so ??? I’ve never had to do that before on the RB500; the upgrade has always replaced all packages.

Is this a change in the way the OS upgrade is all packaged together ??

4

the routeros-rb500 package is around for a while already, and as you can see by it’s size - it contains all packages. so you have to choose - to use one big package, or use many small packages. not all of them.

i don’t know where you got the small packages, but on the download page there is only the big package, and it even says - all in one package:

http://www.mikrotik.com/download_ns.html

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ok, i’ll try to disable/remove them and reboot after-hours tonight, and will let you know.

Thank you!

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I disabled all packaged except for routeros-rb500 and system, because it would not let me disable all packages, and i rebooted as per your suggestion.

THis did not work, because the router was then unable to route, nor to fetch a DHCP address from my cable provider, so I was dead in the water til I re-enabled the relevant packages again.

Can someone out there running 2.9.17 do a /system package print, and confirm that they do indeed see all packages listed as 2.9.17, or if it’s a mix of that release and a/the previous release??

Alternatively, is there a place on this site that has prevoius OS releases posted?? I’d like to try doing an incremental release from 2.9.13 up through 2.9.17; I only have .13 and .17 here, as well as a few previous releases…

THanks,
David

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I uploaded 2.9.17 and rebooted 2 more times. The 2nd time, it didn’t kernel-panic on the way down during the reboot, and the install actually “took” and all packages now show as 2.9.17.

Nothing changed on my end; same procedure of SCP the image up there, and reboot. Not sure if the disable / re-enable of all the packages in the interim had an effect. But we’re good to go now…

Thanks

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I had this same issue from 2.9.7 to 2.9.10. I disabled the other packages and now have a kernel panic! I can not boot the server! Help

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dsdee, may be a kind of package conflict occures. In case that routeros-rb500 contains all other packages , why do you left the system package. I think that if the system package is 2.9.13 all others wont be upgraded. I suppose that in the case with only routeros-rb500 i system packages active , the system has had precedence and that’s why you haven’t any routing and dhcp abilities. OK?

I hope I’ve helped