Here's the first draft with a little more info, written (and forgotten) a couple of days earlier. Then today I found ↩️
Heads up: this is a bit long. (and maybe rambly)
I'm being thorough for the devs since I'm using a RC version. For other WRT helpful ninjas, the picture and a little skimming should be enough, I think.
I've installed a few packages but they don't appear in LuCI's menus.
I used the GUI and selected for these(1) packages the packages specific for LuCI(2), so it(2) installs the real package(1) I want as a LuCI dependency. i.e.+e.g; the GUIs for ACME certs, banIP, NATMap install those same packages and related packages so the GUI it's not just pages added that do nothing.
They install and run, but they won't appear on LuCI. In the case of WireGuard, for example; it has a top bar component under Status which hasn't failed to show up, but in this case where it matters the most is in its dropdown interface menu entry, from where it is missing.
The pages themselves are installed, I know so because I copied the URL path to successfully load the same page on another OpenWRT instances the otherwise missing in action page.
Upon reading some threads, it all seemed to point out to mismatched versions of software, and indeed I actually had mismatched versions from one OpenWRT RC to the next, but the packages themselves didn't differ — or differed but weren't showing (or rather not showing). To be sure, I created a new master and cloned two new systems from it.
Both systems are virtual machines running LuCI openwrt-23.05 branch (git-23.236.53405-fc638c8) / [OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc4 (r23482-7fe85ce1f2)].
The packages are various, but I checked carefully versions matched where a package is failing to appear in one of the system.
It seems to be just a skipped/failed step of the package installation process for which I assume the code (script) must be there somewhere to force the update of the UI -- am I wrong?
Unfortunately, the NATMap example was the only one I had of the problem where the link to it wouldn't show on the top menu bar, but if entered the path manually it loaded fine. It fixed itself. I don't recall if I installed it or not because I did try uninstalling and reinstalling stuff as an attempt to "nudge" them into place. It wasn't successful, but for all I know it might've been a very stubborn browser cache.
that this question had already been asked, just phrased differently. It was answered too. Unfortunately, restarting the network service, like in that case, didn't work in mine.
Components of packages that go outside of the Network menu, seem to install just fine though.
Any suggestion what could this be? =)