Thank you JField for the information provided, I followed your instructions yesterday and finally managed to get RACHEL -Plus updated with the new version. I will follow same procedure to update the RACHEL Plus that are currently being used in schools. God bless.
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Hi @jfield
I ran the command on Rachel Plus WRTD 303N. It was okay but when I ran the last command (4), it gave error below. What can I do?
When I want to update add and update modules, its not downloading. It saying’ waiting. Below is the screen shot
Ah, my instructions assumed you were logged into the root account. But I see that is not always the case. I have updated my instructions to include sudo, which will run the command as root, which will have permission to killall lighttpd.
In any case, you can achieve the same thing by restarting the machine. The goal is just to re-load lighttpd, the web serving software, so that it uses the updated files. Either sudo killall lighttpd from the command line, or restarting the device will work.
Let me know if there’s any problem!
I experienced the same problem as @gkholman and @Rose. I went through all the information being exchanged in this forum and ultimately, followed @sam instructions as per @gkholman case. I downloaded the recovery image RACHEL_Recovery_USB_CAPv1_20160707-oldHDschema.img.zip. This image bring the RACHEL Plus back to life. Unfortunately, I noticed that Wikipedia and few other modules were in France language.
I researched of few more tips but didn’t work out. The next option I had in mind is to delete and reinstall again but the file sizes were big so had no choice. I had no choice so I decided to run the command posted by @jfield on the root. This is the command
Run the following command, making sure to get everything on one line: sudo rsync -Pavz --exclude modules --exclude /admin/admin.sqlite --exclude ‘.*’ --del rsync://dev.worldpossible.org/rachelmods/contentshell/ /media/RACHEL/rachel/
Run the following command: sudo killall lighttpd
and Reboot
Bingo…Bingo. All working very well…
Thank you all for sharing your ideas and knowledge. God bless.
Laso
I’m very glad that worked for you! Sorry for the hiccups along the way – it can be tough figuring out what went wrong remotely with many different types of hardware and software out there. Thanks for your patience, and I hope your RACHEL runs smoothly and helps many people going forward!
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