The router reset itself

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

One day I just came back home to find the router coming back by itself to its factory config. WiFi just stopped working - that's how I found out.

WRT version: LuCI openwrt-19.07 branch (git-21.044.30835-34e0d65)](https://github.com/openwrt/luci) / OpenWrt 19.07.7 r11306-c4a6851c72
Router: Linksys WRT32X

Any ideas what could have caused it?

Thanks!

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Three resets without a successful boot.

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Hmm, I have another version of OpenWRT on the other partition that works. Would it not just switch to the other partition if there was a problem with the current firmware?

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I took this to mean a revert to OEM. If you are saying that it went back to OOTB OpenWrt config, then firstboot got executed, or one of your OpenWrt partitions has not been configured?

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Sorry, both partitions ahd openwrt installed. One was v19.07, the other 21 I think. What happened all my configs are gone, including root password, wifi setup etc. But it's still vanilla openwrt.

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This can happen from time to time if the read/write partition completely fills up. Do you know if you were running out of storage space?

Meanwhile, both 19.07 and 21.02 are very old and are EOL + unsupported. They both have known security vulnerabilities and should not be used anymore.

Please use this opportunity to upgrade to 23.05 (current) so that you are running a supported and secure version of OpenWrt.

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.3&target=mvebu%2Fcortexa9&id=linksys_wrt32x

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Should you move forward as suggested, use factory as device has seen a kernel space reservation change.

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Hard to tell really as it got reset. Right now it all looks good:

root@OpenWrt:~# df -hT
Filesystem           Type            Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root            squashfs        3.3M      3.3M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                tmpfs         250.0M    284.0K    249.7M   0% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1          ubifs          97.8M     44.0K     93.0M   0% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay   overlay        97.8M     44.0K     93.0M   0% /
tmpfs                tmpfs         512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
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Hi, just tried to upgrade the firmware, but got this warning. Is that "normal"?

Image metadata not found Use sysupgrade -F to override this check when downgrading or flashing to vendor firmware Image check failed.

The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform.
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Yes, there is also the DSA change, which might require some knowledge accquisiotn? You will have to force and not keep config, see post, might ease things a wee bit.