@exelan Normally the appropriate repo is enabled via the Web-UI as described in Update Channels as is activated via the System - Software Update Web-UI page. But given you appear not to have done this you could try:
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/Rockstor-Testing.repo
and cut and paste the contents as I previously pasted for that file: starting with the line "
[Rockstor-Testing]".
Then:
yum clean all
yum update rockstor-3.8.15
As per the instructions linked you would then reboot into 3.8.15 for it to do it’s setup. However in proving this here I then found that rockstor-3.8.15 is not available in the given Testing repo.
yum list available rockstor --showduplicates
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sax.uk.as61049.net
* epel: epel.check-update.co.uk
* extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* updates: mirror.sax.uk.as61049.net
Available Packages
rockstor.x86_64 3.8-12 rockstor
rockstor.x86_64 3.8.16-1 Rockstor-Testing
rockstor.x86_64 3.8.16-2 Rockstor-Testing
@suman Is this a Stable channel only version or was it intended to be in Rockstor-Testing repo also? @haoto in the following forum thread seems to have run into the same issue:
Upgrading Rockstor from a broken 3.8-14?
@exelan So for the time being your options are now limited to re-installing. But it might be worth holding out for further information in this thread as if the 3.8.15 package appears in the Testing repo soon then you can continue on from here with the linked instructions.
But it is worth noting that when earlier I installed 3.8-12 and then, in an attempt to reproduce your issue, did a ‘yum update -y’ my test install was not broken and continues to function after a reboot. So given your experience is quite different with missing dirs etc you may have run into something else, given your reported actions.
Sorry to not have been more help and well done on making a config backup, the docs for this can be found in the official docs as Configuration Backup and Restore and yes the file is simply a gzip json format so you could even unzip it a read the settings by eye if it came to it. Although the file ‘as is’ can be uploaded and ‘played back’ to the system in question.
Make sure you retrieve that settings file from the system drive prior to any re-installing though.
Currently given I was unable to reproduce you missing dir’s it may well be. If you first disconnected your data drives after shutting down then there would be no risk of choosing the wrong drive during re-install. Then once you’ve got the install and first reboot and setup done you can then shutdown, re-attached the data drives, bootup and import via the given doc references.
Hope that helps at least a bit.