Hello, We have devices out there with doing updates with mender. Doing a full image update works in general. Lately we tried to use pauses to let devices download updates already but let us trigger the installation later. The devices will not be always on. The customer has control over when a devi…

Hi @diekleinekuh , There is a difference between a coordinated reboot (as initiated by Mender) and a spontaneous reboot (waiting until user reboots). I know that this is being looked into at the moment, I’ll see if I can find information and get back to you. Greetz, Josef

Hi @diekleinekuh , Finally spotted the problem. Support for spontaneous reboots was added in 3.4/3.3.1, while your client is 3.3.0. So a small version bump should actually fix that nicely! Please note though that this only applies to the pause-before-reboot stage if an artifact has already be insta…

Hi Josef, Thanks for your quick reply. I’ll update the client and give it a try. So if I put a pause before reboot and set a lot of retries for the update it will start over from the beginning if the device is switched off until it finally reaches the pause. Then I can keep it there and the device…

Also: I’m using the stable apt repository for Ubuntu Bionic. The latest version there is still 3.3.0. I cannot see any 3.3.1. Do I have to install from source?!

Hi @diekleinekuh , Actually 3.4 should be in the repos. Can you please provide apt update && apt list --upgradable | grep mender-client so we can dig a little deeper? Thanks, Josef

sudo apt update && apt list --upgradable | grep mender-client Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-backports InRelease … Hit:8 https://downloads.mender…

Hi @diekleinekuh , You are right! There should have been an error publishing mender-client 3.4.0 package in Ubuntu Bionic for ARM64 and the latest there is 3.3.0. My preliminary research shows that the other Ubuntu distributions (and the other architectures for Bionic) are correctly updated, so som…

Hello @diekleinekuh , It should be fine now, could you please try again on your end? The bug was actually pretty simple to identify, but I took my time doing some improvements to our automation scripts and writing tests. I hope to be able to catch these kind of issues earlier next time …

Hi @lluiscampos , I can see mender 3.4.0-1 now in the repository. Thanks for fixing that :slight_smile: EDIT by @TheYoctoJester : put remark about 3.3.1 into next comment

To conclude this thread here: I upgraded to mender-client 3.4. I cannot test pauses anymore since I upgraded from the free plan to basic which doesn’t have this feature anymore :frowning: I was putting a state script for ArtifactReboot_Enter that blocked the reboot indefinitely. I can manually reb…

Letting devices reboot between update steps with pauses

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Letting devices reboot between update steps with pauses

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