dpkg error with Linux Kernel 5.4.179 Oxnas (OX820) Pogo V3 package

Hey, I'm really happy to see continued development for these awesome little devices. I first learned about this place about 7 years ago and enjoyed setting up a couple of Pogoplugs as network shares. Then life happened and they were eventually boxed up and shelved for a few years.

I dusted one of them off today and it started up as if they were online just yesterday! I ended up needing to update the uBoot because I wanted netconsole and that worked out well as far as I can tell.

Now, I'm trying to update the kernel but I'm stuck at step 4:

Linux Black 4.4.38-oxnas-tld-5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 11 17:32:48 PST 2016 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.

Last login: Fri Aug 12 08:55:27 2022 from 192.168.199.249

root@Black:~# cd /boot

root@Black:/boot# ls -l

total 62252
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 Aug 12 08:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root     4096 Aug 11 22:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 Aug 12 08:41 backup
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   142130 Feb 15 11:35 config-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 Mar  1  2021 dts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 31733414 Aug 12 08:51 linux-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1.bodhi.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   160063 Feb 15 12:52 linux-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1.patch
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    61440 Feb 15 12:35 linux-dtb-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11311708 Feb 15 12:25 linux-headers-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 14676152 Feb 15 12:26 linux-image-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  5533336 Feb 15 12:21 zImage-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1

root@Black:/boot# dpkg -i linux-image-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb

dpkg-deb: error: archive 'linux-image-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing linux-image-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1_1.0_armel.deb

Am I missing something obvious here? I feel like I am.

rsavera,

> Am I missing something obvious here? I feel like I
> am.

Nothing obviously wrong. What Debian version are you at?

cat /etc/debian_version

If it is too old, try upgrading Debian first.

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> What Debian version are you at?

Thanks for the reply. It was on 7.11, wow.

I prepared a fresh USB drive with Debian-4.14.180-oxnas-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 and upgraded the kernel with linux-5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1.bodhi.tar.bz2

U-Boot 2015.10-tld-2 (Oct 21 2017 - 22:00:02 -0700)
OXNAS OX820

Last login: Wed Dec 31 16:00:48 PST 1969 on ttyS0
Linux Configs 5.4.179-oxnas-tld-1 #1.0 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 14 21:50:21 PST 2022 armv6l

root@Configs:~# cat /etc/debian_version
10.12

I remember now that the only issue I had with these devices (to use as network shares) was the lack of an RTC. I also remember that a workaround would be to prioritize NTP in the boot process with a static IP so I'll be exploring either that or adding in a hardware RTC.

The maker space/community is far more established today than it was 7 years ago so I'm expecting a hardware RTC shouldn't cost more than a dollar or two — hopefully.

Thanks again bodhi, you're a legend!

Cool!

Also, you can use fake-hwclock package instead.

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