01-25-2024, 06:58 PM | #1 |
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Older downloads from pgaskin.net not working
Hello,
I am trying to download software version 4.30.18838 for both the Libra 2 and the Glo from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html but the downloads keep getting hung up mid-download and never actually finish downloading. I have tried with different browsers, networks and even different machines, and it's the same across all of them. What do I do? I was able to download the kobopatch for that software version just fine. Just not the actual software itself. Last edited by Lily7; 01-25-2024 at 07:01 PM. |
01-25-2024, 10:42 PM | #2 |
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For kobopatch, you can use one of these files as the input (just change the src option in kobopatch.yaml): https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-testdata.
I will probably need to expose my mirror of full kobo firmware files if this keeps happening. |
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01-30-2024, 12:44 AM | #3 |
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01-30-2024, 01:24 AM | #4 |
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01-30-2024, 11:20 AM | #5 |
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It's not just the old firmware. It's the newest one that I'm unable to download either through the site or on my Kobo. Also can't download Kobo Desktop from their website either, same problem.
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01-30-2024, 05:04 PM | #6 |
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Odd. I just tried downloading the Kobo Desktop for Windows from their site and no issues using Firefox, Edge and Chrome under Windows 11, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Edge on MacOS Sonoma 14.3 (downloaded the Mac version) and Firefox, Chromium, Brave and Vivaldi on SUSE Linux Tumbleweed with no issues. From the links on Patrick Gaskin's site, downloading 4.38.21908 (the latest version) has no issues.
I had to use wget with the retries set to 0 to download the 3 older versions I tried. |
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With the correct month/year, I was able to build a Libra 2 URL. 4.30.18838 for the Kobo Libra 2. https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/firmw...4.30.18838.zip Last edited by JSWolf; 01-30-2024 at 05:27 PM. |
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01-30-2024, 05:27 PM | #8 | |
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https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/firmw...4.38.21908.zip https://cdn.kobo.com/downloads/firmw...4.37.21586.zip As for the dates, they seem to be present both in the URLs and the popup panel for older firmware. See attached image. Last edited by DNSB; 01-30-2024 at 05:34 PM. Reason: Added image |
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Using Firefox, I have to wait until the download fails and retry until it finishes. One of the download did finish. The download will try to continue form where it left off. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-30-2024 at 05:39 PM. |
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01-30-2024, 05:36 PM | #11 |
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Which is exactly what I am seeing and why I used wget for it's automatic retries. 6 seconds to download the first 12MB of a file and then 45 minutes for the rest is not what I really wanted to see.
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01-31-2024, 01:09 AM | #13 |
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It isn't the issue you think it is. This is a separate issue, and I really don't get how kobo can screw up something as simple as serving files this badly... Anything not in the cloudflare cache is downloading in ~40MB chunks then stalling, each taking 4-5 minutes to prepare... It's almost as if they have some poor employee running around grabbing physical chunks in the form of a book off a bookshelf when someone tries to download it (and occasionally making a mistake, returning a corrupt chunk)
At any rate, my mirror should be ready by the end of the week. I'm still waiting for my script to download 23 files, and to re-download 17 corrupt ones. Last edited by geek1011; 01-31-2024 at 01:16 AM. |
01-31-2024, 01:11 AM | #14 |
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Kobo no longer uses Akamai AFAICT. It appears that it's now cloudflare, possibly a proxy, then s3 or a s3-compatible server (I could probably figure it out, but my priority rn is to get the firmware files mirrored).
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01-31-2024, 05:20 AM | #15 |
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What happens on a Kobo Reader with these downloads? Does it eventually fail? Do you get to resume? Do you have to start over?
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