Hi I’ve hosted a mender server on aws ec2 which seems to function properly, and i have a ubuntu24 machine on which i installed mender client(v5) through apt install mender-client4. The client can be properly registered to my mender server, but when i tried to deploy an artifact, the client reported …

I tried to downgrade my mender client to v3.5 and the BAD VERSION issue didn’t occur. I could see related issues in the release notes ( * Fix download failure to always do a proper cancellation and cleanup of internal HTTP stuctures to avoid breaking future HTTP requests. Fixes bad_version error. ( M…

Hi @nicktech , It’s not a problem which we are aware of immediately. Possibly long shot, does it also persist when trying it on the Hosted Mender instance? Greetz, Josef

It does not occur in hosted mender or mender-client(v3.5), but persists across mender client v4-v5. Mender-updated service kept reporting error when communicating with mender-authd service.

Hi @nicktech , No idea then, maybe @robgio has a pointer on how to debug the issue server side then. Greetz, Josef

ok, appreciate that. I’ll stick to mender-client v3 for now.

Hi @nicktech , in your Mender Server setup, could you please check the Deployment service logs? Something like kubectl logs <deployment service pod> --namespace <your namespace> Additionally, which Mender Server version are you using? With which helm chart version? Are you using the storage_prox…

Hi, mender server version is v4.0.1, the latest version i suppose helm chart version is v3.18.3 I’ve actually disabled the storage_proxy feature. When the feature is enabled, artifacts could not be properly downloaded from my mender website. (All artifacts are stored in S3)

AS for the logs, i could not find much helpful information, are there anything that I should pay special attention to? Thanks a lot for your assistance.

Hi @nicktech , for the exact Mender Server version you can look at the image tags of the Mender Services: kubectl get deploy -o yaml --namespace <mender namespace> | grep -i image: You mentioned the helm chart version v3.18.3, but I guess that’s the version of the helm as a package. Could you pl…

Mender-Client failed to update deployment status

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nicktech July 3, 2025, 1:25am 5

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