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

Wed Jun 25 02:02:37 EDT 2014

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

> 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
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> John _______________________________________________ 
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> >>>>
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