I have just built the latest release of openwrt "OpenWrt 23.05-SNAPSHOT r24045-5773538c90 / LuCI openwrt-23.05 branch git-24.212.79335-cdbe903"
I have several routers of different make models, all but 2 models based on ipq806 work fine.
Both Netgear RT7800 and Linksys EA8500 now give an error on the main status page. The error is (in a red rectangle with a "Dismiss" button):
TypeError
pkg is undefined
Status
Loading View....
and it hangs.
Some package must be missing from the new version or something must have changed for this chipset that causes this issue.
The problem is that the error does not help understand what is missing. Nothing is logged either, so I have no clue.
Iirc, luci isn't included in snapshots - search for opkg install luci to get the actual command to load basic luci. The luci extras you'll need to install manually as well.
I build my own image using make menuconfig and I pick the packages I need from there. The configuration for my 2 ipq806 based routers has not changed in several months, only this last build is giving me this error (after deployment, on the Status splash page).
I was only trying to understand how can I get more information from luci so that I can identify what is missing.
Overview: as above
Routing, Firewall, System Log, Processes, Channel Analysis, Realtime Graphs, Mobile Service, Wireguard ... all good.
Unless I find the issue tomorrow I will try to start from scratch a new software configuration by deleting the .config file used to build the image ("make menuconfig"). Perhaps something has been changed/added/removed that the saved .config does not include or fix automatically. Although if possible I would like to avoid this because it is a lengthy manual process with many packages to select (one has to remember all the necessary packages and their configuration).
That is one way to do it, the other way as described in the wiki for building firmware is to have them configured in a text file and copy that to the config file.
That is what I do, but I found out that occasionally the saved configuration becomes incompatible with new updates. When this happens, normally the build fails because of some missing dependencies. This time it succeeded, so I am not even sure whether this could be the problem.
Unfortunately I cannot use a standard build because I have to turn on openssl and turn off mbedtls, I use openvpn with openssl and wpad-openssl other than dhcp-full and several other kernel and packages tweaks.
I have to go back to my original question: is there any way to get a more detailed error report from luci so that I can understand what goes wrong?
You ain’t supposed to define the dependables or any version of anything in that file. You only define the basic packages you want to include, nothing more.
Thank you for sharing the latest commits' history. I will see what I can do as I do not have a spare router with an ipq806 chipset that I can use for troubleshooting. 2 of them are deployed in unattended remote sites (therefore I cannot risk crashing either), one is local, but constantly in use too in a key role.
