Sep 2022 Update fails at 088-armv7-remote-osmc

AJCxZ0 · 19 September 2022 02:52

Previously updated OSMC on Pi 3B updated manually from My OSMC Update again failed at

OSMC Update Error
An error occureed while installing the folowing package:
088-armv7-remote-osmc (1.2.6)

Logs uploaded.

Kodi runs and plays media as before, albeit with error

Add-on error
Check the log for more information

at launch, however any attempt to update fails and prompts to upload logs, which I did the first time.

For me this isn’t a problem and I will most likely perform a fresh install soon, however I’m happy to provide more details and test if it will help. I can log in with ssh.

fzinken · 19 September 2022 04:26

dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-MjygnX/088-armv7-remote-osmc_1.2.6_armhf.deb' (size=1343480) member 'data.tar': lzma error: compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-MjygnX/158-rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_19.5.0-6_armhf.deb' (size=95163380) member 'data.tar': lzma error: compressed data is corrupt

This doesn’t look good. Could mean an issue with your SD Card.

New install might be best but suggest to test the card with h2testw before install (which is a destructive test).

You can try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --reinstall install armv7-remote-osmc
sudo apt-get --reinstall install rbp2-mediacenter-osmc

but I assume errors remains

sam_nazarko · 19 September 2022 10:33

Hi,

It seems like your SD card may be problematic.

Some SD cards are not genuine or have a lower capacity than advertised. Some simply fail over time.

Symptoms of SD cards not working correctly are:

Read-only behaviour, or changes made not persisting
A filesystem corruption error

Symptoms of counterfeit SD cards are:

Writing works until a certain filesystem size is reached, thereafter, writes seem to cause issues where existing data is lost or newly written data is not preserved.
SD card fails after a short amount of time.

Counterfeit cards are usually found on Amazon and eBay.

SD cards have a limited lifespan. I recommend you change SD card and suspect that issues will no longer persist with a good card. If you would like to be a good quality SD card purpose manufactured for OSMC, then you can find one in the Store.

AJCxZ0 · 19 September 2022 17:54

That seems like the most likely explanation if the symptom is exclusive to my update, as appears to be the case.

With nothing to lose, I followed your suggestion to manually reinstall/update, preceded by a clean and followed by an autoremove.

$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install armv7-remote-osmc
...
Done
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-113) ...
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20210119) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.20-2) ...

This completed the installation and setup of many packages.

$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install rbp2-mediacenter-osmc
...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  rbp2-mediacenter-osmc
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 95.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,258 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt bullseye/main armhf rbp2-mediacenter-osmc armhf 19.5.0-6 [95.2 MB]
Fetched 95.2 MB in 29s (3,282 kB/s)                                            
(Reading database ... 44841 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_19.5.0-6_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking rbp2-mediacenter-osmc (19.5.0-6) over (19.4.0-1) ...
Setting up rbp2-mediacenter-osmc (19.5.0-6) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.69) ...

Before making any further changes, I rebooted and tested basic operation. Everything I tested up to playing tracks from a DVD ISO appears to be working normally and the My OSMC app had all the icons restored and the update process worked normally.

Wading confidently into treating an appliance as a platform with the expected consequences, I tested removing “no longer needed” packages and a distribution update (which should be effectively the same as just an update).

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  armv7-libass-osmc armv7-libnfs-osmc dh-python gnupg-agent libapt-inst2.0
  libbind9-140 libbind9-161 libcdio13 libcdio18 libcryptsetup4
  libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdns1104 libdns1110 libdns162 libenca0
  libevent-2.0-5 libevent-2.1-6 libfdk-aac1 libffi6 libgeoip1 libhogweed4
  libicu57 libicu63 libidn11 libip4tc0 libip6tc0 libiptc0 libisc1100
  libisc1105 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccc161 libisccfg140 libisccfg163
  libiso9660-8 libjson-c3 liblvm2app2.2 liblwres141 liblwres161 libmpdec2
  libncurses5 libnettle6 libnfs12 libntfs-3g871 libprocps6 libprocps7
  libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib
  libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib libpython3.7 libpython3.7-minimal
  libpython3.7-stdlib libreadline7 libssl1.0.2 libunistring0 libwebpmux2
  python-pkg-resources python-six python2 python2-minimal python2.7
  python2.7-minimal python3-distutils python3-lib2to3 python3.5
  python3.5-minimal python3.7 python3.7-minimal wireless-firmware-osmc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 72 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 152 MB disk space will be freed.
...
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

This indicates that the armv7-remote-osmc and rbp2-mediacenter-osmc reinstall/update effectively completed the platform update.

Rebooting from the OSMC interface, it started and appears to be operating normally, confirming that the problem which I experienced was almost certainly a storage failure of the MicroSD which may be a 32 GB Samsung EVO from 2014.

$ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/date
11/2014

I am well aware that this error is probably an indicator of not-too-distant future failure of the MicroSD card.

Thanks for your help and another great job with this update, @sam_nazarko.

sam_nazarko · 19 September 2022 20:40

Get everything backed up and move to a new SD card