[OpenWrt-Devel] [BUG] NAND sysupgrade broke ubifs on Netgear WNDR3700v4/4300.

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Wed Jun 25 02:09:21 EDT 2014 


On 25/06/2014 08:02, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 07:57 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> can someone with a 3700v4 run "cat /tmp/sysinfo/*" on a 3700 ?
>> 
>> the sysupgrade fails because the board id is not added yet in
>> the upgrade script. however i fail to figure out what id it gets
>> from the ar71xx.sh script
>> 
>> John
>> 
> 
> Good morning John
> 
> on my 3700v4 i get this:
> 
> root at router:~# cat /tmp/sysinfo/* wndr4300 NETGEAR
> WNDR3700v4/WNDR4300
> 
> hope this helps!
> 
> -paul
> 
> 

and which sysupgrade file fails in luci ? if the id is 4300 then you
should simply use the 4300 tar file for luci sysupgrade

	John



> 
>> On 25/06/2014 06:27, Adam Kuklycz wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've flashed my Netgear WNDR4300 with trunk r41336 and have run
>>> a series of tests.
>>> 
>>> Everything looks great!  I can restore backed up settings, I
>>> can configure it from scratch too should I desire.
>>> 
>>> Sysupgrade works fine on my WNDR4300 via the web UI.  Paul if 
>>> you're still having issues with this on your WNDR3700v4 it may
>>> be specific to that model; I do not have one of these to test
>>> on unfortunately. But sysupgrade on the WNDR4300 works and
>>> works well. All settings are kept when sysupgrading too.
>>> 
>>> If it helps Paul out I can email him my config file, write me 
>>> directly for it; that should eliminate any mistakes that have
>>> been overlooked. Easy to do.
>>> 
>>> Will run the router for a few hours on the test bench and do
>>> some traffic through it, should that play nice then it's
>>> problems resolved on my end :)
>>> 
>>> Cheers Adam
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 25/06/14 13:14, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>> Adam,
>>>> 
>>>> what do you know? hehehe when one sleeps another fixes
>>>> things ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> so far so good, my router has been up for few hours without 
>>>> problems... there's still issue with the sysupgrade image
>>>> that John is already aware of ... and may have a fix for us
>>>> to test ... one fix at a time they say.
>>>> 
>>>> glad we made much progress today!
>>>> 
>>>> thank you all!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 00:07 +0000, Adam Kuklycz wrote:
>>>>> Geez, it must be true that you should only sleep when
>>>>> you're dead...damn Aussie time zones...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll test with latest trunk as well & will confirm.  But
>>>>> looks promising!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: openwrt-devel 
>>>>> [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On Behalf
>>>>> Of Paul Blazejowski Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2014 6:27 AM
>>>>> To: John Crispin Cc: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [BUG] NAND sysupgrade broke
>>>>> ubifs on Netgear WNDR3700v4/4300.
>>>>> 
>>>>> sorry i meant https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16803 the
>>>>> previous one is closed for good ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 16:25 -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks for the tftp fix, flushing just became so much
>>>>>> faster and easier.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Tested trunk r41336 after your jffs2 fix and the image
>>>>>> boots fine, restored my configuration changes, rebooted
>>>>>> the router and all changes are saved now. I will post the
>>>>>> working dmesg to the ticket at
>>>>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840 but it is safe to
>>>>>> say that you can close it ;-) now.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sysupgrade image(s) for 3700v4 and 4300 do not work now, 
>>>>>> guess this is next on the list...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you, -paul
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:18 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>>>>>>> On 24/06/2014 19:05, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
>>>>>>>> John,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Yes i use the reset with pin and from there i tftp
>>>>>>>> the original firmware from netgear after that i go to
>>>>>>>> the gui and upload the open-wrt image because the
>>>>>>>> router will not accept the wndr3700v4 image (there's
>>>>>>>> a cosmetic fix for that, i created a patch that
>>>>>>>> someone from the forums has sent months ago to this
>>>>>>>> list but it was never accepted...)
>>>>>>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> With that patch tftp'ing the 
>>>>>>>> openwrt-ar71xx-nand-wndr3700v4-ubi-factory.img works 
>>>>>>>> without need to flash the original firmware.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If there's another method that can be used to flash
>>>>>>>> the image(s) please let me know i would want to try
>>>>>>>> any alternative ways of flashing and could learn a
>>>>>>>> thing or two in the process as well ;-)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you, -paul
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> i just pushed the V vs v fix and another fix that
>>>>>>> removes the jffs2 magic. i think this might have been
>>>>>>> the cause of the problems. please retry with current
>>>>>>> trunk and let me know if the problem is gone or still
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>> 
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