TL-WDR3600 BR memory locked

Hello, I installed 22.03.0-rc2 on a TL-WDR3600 BR, right at the beginning I had to do the forced update, after the update it doesn't allow to update the opkgs and doesn't allow the installation of new ones. Failure indicates memory is read-only
Has anyone gone through this and found a solution?

Could be a bug.
Any specific reason for avoiding stable 21.02 ?

I would like to test the version that comes with a squid update
I like Openwrt all news is welcome

Sorry for my english, i speak in portuguese br

Based on the replies in your 2nd thread, squid probably isn't to blame...

honestly it's curiosity
I already bricked routers testing Openwrt
When I saw this new version...I was happy lol

This device has only 8MB of flash, probably only a smaller self made build image without luci and other non essential packages may get you running? Try the online web image builder:
https://asu.aparcar.org

Could you post the output of cat /proc/mtd and df -h and does 21.0.2.3 work for you in the first place as in flashable/bootable and installing packages saving settings after reboot (as in ReadWrite fs)?

EDIT:
Did you have the original model or a "Sam Knows" rebranded one?

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Size should not be a problem (yet) for this hardware, at least not with release (or -rc) images. Only 192 KB of those 8 MB are lost to bootloader and calibration data, while the firmware images are still under 6 MB.

root@TL-WDR3600:/proc# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00010000 "u-boot"
mtd1: 007d0000 00010000 "firmware"
mtd2: 001f4a3a 00010000 "kernel"
mtd3: 005db5c4 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd4: 002b0000 00010000 "rootfs_data"
mtd5: 00010000 00010000 "art"
root@TL-WDR3600:/proc# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 3.3M      3.3M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    60.3M      2.4M     57.8M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda1               499.8M     50.3M    419.9M  11% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/sda4                 2.5G    379.8M      2.0G  16% /files
/dev/sda2               499.8M     17.3M    453.0M   4% /tmp/squid

TL-WDR3600 is original, not Chinese

I also believe that it is not, the factori,bin of the 2 versions are the same in size

Every root directory is already directed to a flash drive, but the normal size of memory left after installation is 2 mb

In an extroot scenario you would only install enough packages to the internal flash needed to get the external drive mounted. Then install your main apps after booting into extroot so they are stored on the external drive.

Errors
umount: tmpfs busy - remounted read-only
umount: can't remount tmpfs read-only
umount: proc busy - remounted read-only
Collected errors:
 * copy_file: unable to open `/etc/group-opkg.backup': Read-only file system.
 * file_copy: Failed to copy file /etc/group to /etc/group-opkg.backup.
 * backup_make_backup: Failed to copy /etc/group to /etc/group-opkg.backup
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package base-files.
 * pkg_write_filelist: Failed to open //usr/lib/opkg/info/base-files.list: Read-only file system.
The opkg install command failed with code 255

hello i found the problem
The problem is this base-files 1479-r19374-34b6abf5a8 » 1479-r19378-9f415792e1
When I use the update to update it in ssh and luci it blocks the memory forcing a reset
Do you know of any way to install it?

Errors
umount: tmpfs busy - remounted read-only
umount: can't remount tmpfs read-only
umount: proc busy - remounted read-only
Collected errors:
 * copy_file: unable to open `/etc/group-opkg.backup': Read-only file system.
 * file_copy: Failed to copy file /etc/group to /etc/group-opkg.backup.
 * backup_make_backup: Failed to copy /etc/group to /etc/group-opkg.backup
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package base-files.
 * pkg_write_filelist: Failed to open //usr/lib/opkg/info/base-files.list: Read-only file system.
The opkg install command failed with code 255

hello i found the problem
The problem is this base-files 1479-r19374-34b6abf5a8 » 1479-r19378-9f415792e1
When I use the update to update it in ssh and luci it blocks the memory forcing a reset
Do you know of any way to install it?

Do not run opkg upgrade attempting to upgrade all packages. Use attended sysupgrade to get a new ROM with updated packages.

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wonderful, this tool will never be presented to me, it solved everything quickly and clean
thank you for your support

Although already fixed, the issue seems to be inherent to the use extroot.

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found the problem?
Already solved but the more information I have the better, thank you very much for the support

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