It seems I have the same problem on my Wetek Play 2, the automatic update from 8.90.3 to 8.90.4 failes.
CoreElec downloads the tar archive correctly, it is placed under .update.
Restart extracts the tar archive
After extracting another reboot happens, but
8.90.3 is started again
It download the tar again and same game happens on next restart.
After extracting the tar archive I see the following message:
g (target) kernel.img or /SYTEM!
(Unfortunately I cannot read the beginning of the message on my screen, but it seems to be the same message as Skunz metnioned)
I have tried to investigate this by installing 8.90.3 (S905) on a clean memory card and then letting the system auto-update to 8.90.4 and it completed successfully so I’m not too sure what has gone on here.
You can manually update by replacing the files on your memory card with those in the tar, 8.90.4 has been installed on 774 devices at the time of this post so I would assume there would be more reports on this if something was broken.
Put the 8.90.3 tar inside the update folder and see if that installs.
@anon88919003 Just to confirm that I understand the installation process correctly.
When this error occured all other files, but SYSTEM and kernel.img should already be installed. Also after reboot I have a mixed installation (SYSTEM and kernel.img from 8.90.3, all other files from 8.90.4).
So I just can manually copy SYSTEM and kernel.img from the tar and should have a complete 8.90.4 installation.
I have been trying all the instructions for update auto and manual as described above but no luck, my hub doesn’t update to the latest version. Stuck with 8.90.3.
After initial problems I managed to update to 8.90.4 by copying the sytem and kernel files onto the SD card.
First I copied the files under target from the tar archive to the SD-card. And the box boots to WEOS, only.
Alternatively I extracted the files from the .img file. Then I saw the differences in the naming of the kernel files.
.img:
kernel.img
kernel.img.md5
.tar:
KERNEL
KERNEL.md5
The naming of the .img files are the same as the old .3 files on the SD-card. So I copied them onto the SD-card. And it finally boots into CoreElec 8.90.4.
On my Wetek Play 2 i copied the 4 files from the target folder .tar archiv of 8.90.4 to my sd card and reboot. after the reboot CE starts fine, also Kodi.
I have copied the the .tar of 8.90.4 after the manuel update to the .update folder and reboot, and the update was installed correctly without an Issu and CE and Kodi work fine.
But after the next reboot i became at the start of CE a lot of Code message see on the picture and CE dont’t start
I have delete the 8.90.4 file wich was automaticly download and copied a manuel downloaded 8.90.3 .tar file to the .update folder and reboot.And the it shows me the same issu like the update to 8.90.4 or what do you mean exactly