[OpenWrt-Devel] MR24 sysupgrade seems to be broken

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Jul 2 16:10:44 EDT 2018


Updating to a current ubi-utils seems to fix it.  It looks like the version
number didn't change with the fix though, so I needed to use
--force-reinstall to overwrite ubi-info 2.0.2-1.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:26:35 AM CEST Russell Senior wrote:
> > Here is what shows during sysupgrade:
> >
> > https://pastebin.com/YfbQZ5fB
> >
> Have you tried the aforementioned fix for the buggy mtd-utils on
> your old/existing installation or not?
>
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Saturday, June 30, 2018 10:06:21 AM CEST Russell Senior wrote:
> > > > I just tried updating a Meraki MR24 to current master, from an image
> a
> > > few
> > > > months old and it broke.  I get a new kernel, but an old rootfs.  I
> have
> > > > some of these deployed where a serial connection is awkward.  It
> would be
> > > > nice if sysupgrade worked.
> > > >
> > > Any idea what broke it? From your description "new kernel, old rootfs"
> it
> > > could be the mtd-utils update to 2.0.2 that broke it:
> > >
> > > <https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=
> > > f37f63f38ccb706b196fe4934d0d9d92537eb832>
> > >
> > > and this was fixed by me just this month:
> > >
> > > <https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=
> > > daf19649dbf101ce7ae17abf84eeed7a30b41275>
> > > (also upstream <http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/commit/
> > > 0f833ac73ad631248826386e2918d8571ecf0347>)
> > >
> > > so I think you would need to somehow update the mtd-utils
> > > package (ubinfo, ubimkvol, ubirmvol, ...)  on your old routers
> > > before performing sysupgrading in order to fix this.
>
>
>
>
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