[OpenWrt-Devel] 18.06 Bug: Baby Jumbo Frames on mt7621

[Levente]

Try upgrading the sysupgrade image using your bootloader.

Lev

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Mathias Kresin <dev at kresin.me> wrote:
>>> 2018-05-25 12:48 GMT+03:00 Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com>:
>>>> Dear Martin, Mathias and the rest,
>>>>
>>>> Please scratch my previous message. It seems like the flash was not
>>>> successful, and hence I was still running the old firmware. However, I
>>>> have tried flashing 3 different times now, without any luck. The
>>>> router ends up rebooting and boots right into the old firmware. This
>>>> seems to be a major bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this
>>>> particular issue?
>>>
>>> First of all, Martin is right. The commit in my staging tree should
>>> fix the MTU issue but I don't have the hardware to test it on my own.
>>>
>>> So far you never mentioned which board you have. Hence it's quite
>>> difficult to have a look at the code about what could be wrong. It
>>> would be helpful if you can name the last working revision to limit
>>> the number of commits to look at.
>>>
>>>> Seems like a dealbreaker for 18.06 (which I am
>>>> running now) to me. I could simply use recovery and flash a firmware
>>>> like that, but I would prefer to get to the bottom of this issue so
>>>> that end users won't end up stuck on a particular firmware. Any ideas
>>>> what I could do to debug this?
>>>
>>> Your best bet is to attach the/a serial console and check the console
>>> for errors.
>>>
>>> Mathias
>>
>> My apologies for leaving out important details. I am using a Dir-860L
>> B1. I used to be running Lede 17.01.4, until last Tuesday. At that day
>> I upgraded to OpenWrt 18.06-SNAPSHOT r6917-8948a78 via Luci. Flashing
>> any other firmware seems to be broken now: I have tried flashing a
>> build compiled from your staging tree, I've tried reverting back to
>> 17.01.4 and I've tried reflashing 18.06. All end up in the exact same
>> spot: Still on the OpenWrt 18.06-SNAPSHOT r6917-8948a78 with all
>> manually installed packages still present. I've tried flashing via
>> Luci and via the sysupgrade command (with the -v switch for more
>> verbosity), but no useful information there. The last line that is
>> output is simply:
>>
>> Commencing upgrade. All shell sessions will be closed now.
>>
>> One particular weird thing that I do remember on this build, is the
>> fact that I tried to update all upgradable packages via OPKG (I know
>> this is discouraged). One of those packages was "base-files". The
>> upgrade failed with a weird error (can't remember what exactly), but
>> nothing seemed wrong at that time, so I didn't really think much about
>> it. Is there anyone more knowledgeable than me that knows whether this
>> could influence the sysupgrade functionality?
>>
>> Lastly, I do not have a serial cable unfortunately, so I think
>> debugging will be difficult for me. I could use recovery to reflash a
>> fresh 18.06 build, and see if upgrade functionality is still broken in
>> that case. I will report back with my findings.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Jaap Buurman
>
> Dear all,
>
> This just popped up on the Lede forum:
> https://forum.lede-project.org/t/xiaomi-wifi-router-3g/5377/879
>
> So this might simply be a (mt7621 specific?) bug that prevents
> sysupgrade from working properly. I am still awaiting his answers to
> verify that he is indeed also running into the same issue where to
> firmware won't upgrade.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Jaap Buurman
>
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