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

[Paul Blazejowski]

Hi John,

strange i did not receive your email, yet others from ml show up in my
inbox just fine...(case of forgotten cc: or reply to all?) anyways ...

just flashed the factory image i've built from r41792 and the changes
you've made in r41788 by spitting the 2 routers work just fine for me.

The router now correctly identifies as wndr3700v4 as reported in LuCI
and kernel dmesg as well as in sysinfo:

root at router:/tmp# cat sysinfo/*
wndr3700v4
NETGEAR WNDR3700v4

As for sysupgrade, it shows the checksum now and flashes OK.

It is nice to just upload the image into web interface and flash away
instead of cables,pins and other gadgets to get the firmware loaded ...

I thank you for your help in fixing this issue. case closed ;-)


Best Regards,
-paul


> hi,
>
> i pushed a patch in the hope that it will work. please test current
> trunk and tell if the problem is solved.

On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 11:56 -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry your email got lost somehow on my end... And the machine hosting
> mailing list is down at the moment it seems.
> 
> here is the info:
> 
> root at router:~# cat /tmp/sysinfo/*
> wndr4300
> NETGEAR WNDR3700v4/WNDR4300
> 
> 
> thanks,
> -paul
> 
> On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 14:52 -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > any update on this issue? i strongly believe that the hard-coded
> > wndr4300 string somewhere in the source is the culprit of the problem
> > since the wndr3700v4 board_detection is identified as wndr4300 thus the
> > sysupgrade works for 4300 but not for 3700v4.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > -paul
> > 
> > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:15 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 24/06/2014 22:43, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> > > > i get "The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format.
> > > > Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your
> > > > platform." from web interface.
> > > > 
> > > > this is what i have:
> > > > 
> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 diffie diffie 8919040 2014-06-24 15:58 
> > > > bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-nand-wndr3700v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar
> > > > 
> > > > should i push it from shell using sysupgrade script?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > it will work from shell, i will look into why it fails via webui.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 22:32 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> On 24/06/2014 22:25, 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...
> > > >>> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> i tested 4300 and it works. you need to use the
> > > >> *-ubi-sysupgrade.tar file.
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >>> 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
> > > >>>> 
> > > >>>> John _______________________________________________ 
> > > >>>> openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org 
> > > >>>> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> 
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