Hybrid state of older SNAPSHOT and 24.10.3 after upload of factory image

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I had a router on which I had the pre 24 snapshot installed.

I’d like to start from scratch with the 24.10.3 image.

What I did was to download the factory image and select to wipe the cfg.

I ended up with an hybrid. Status Overview reported I was still on snapshot, kernel was newer, some user installed program where still there and all the config.

So I performed a reset, via web GUI. Router lost its name and probably some more options, it lost the Network Wireless menu, but some of the user installed menu were still there. Overview still report I’m on snapshot, opkg sources still pointing to snapshot.

What should I do to return to a pristine 24.10.3 installation, no user installed packages, and just “original” configs?

thanks

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Whiteout knowing the hw used, we have no idea.

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Hi,

it is a GL.iNet GL-MT6000. I thought the procedure for wiping it would be the same regardless of the hardware.

I already read https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/failsafe_and_factory_reset

but before randomly trying the other options I’d like to understand what I’m doing especially considering “in some cases it is not enough”.

thanks

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What exactly did you flash to the router?

Can you ssh to the damaged router?

You should be able to download sysupgrade backup from there.

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I used the firmware selector, selected the 24.10.3 factory image for my router and flashed it selecting all the options to not save previous setup.

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.3/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-24.10.3-mediatek-filogic-glinet_gl-mt6000-squashfs-factory.bin

Next step was to press “Perform reset” from the web GUI… but it still came up with an hybrid setup.

I can ssh and I can access the web GUI. Router “mostly” works but eg. opkg sources were still the one of the snapshot, unbound, openvpn menus where still there, LAN ip of the router was the one I previously chose and not the one default install of openwrt comes with, the wireless menu disappeared…

I’d really like to start from scratch, being sure all configurations are the default one and all the packages are at the version included in 24.10.3.

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You could try to do a sysupgrade with this file.

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it seems sysupgrade worked and I leart something.

I thought factory images where going to wipe things like a “factory” reset, but sysupgrade images did the trick.

Now back to try to understand why upgrading openvpn packages in 24.10.2 seems had killed openvpn in a weired way.

thanks

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Then you may wish to revew the Wiki: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.sysupgrade#how_the_openwrt_upgrade_works

Glad you got it working and didn't brick your device.

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I was thinking more about this

and I added 1 small line

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