Troubleshooting strange UniFi 6 LR behavior: No LEDs

Hi all,

I recently bought two used Ubiquiti UniFi 6 LR access points and flashed them with the latest OpenWrt build.

The first one seems to work just fine, I haven't found any issues with it. However, the second one immediately acted up. After installing, the LEDs went off and can't be turned on in normal operation. They just briefly turn on at boot. There are also no devices found on the LED config page.

In dmesg, I got the following:

root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg | grep err
[ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 845719
[ 0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 843419
[ 0.024242] ramoops: probe of 42ff0000.ramoops failed with error -22
[ 0.099631] mt-pmic-pwrap 10001000.pwrap: unexpected interrupt int=0x1
[ 76.017829] ubnt-ledbar: probe of 0-0030 failed with error -22
root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg | grep fail
[ 0.024242] ramoops: probe of 42ff0000.ramoops failed with error -22
[ 38.571888] leds blue: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-22)
[ 57.291887] leds green: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-22)
[ 76.011887] leds red: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-22)
[ 76.017829] ubnt-ledbar: probe of 0-0030 failed with error -22
[ 76.306373] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: failed to assign [mem size 0x200000000 64bit pref]
[ 76.357037] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: of_irq_parse_pci: failed with rc=-22

It appears that for some reason the LEDs can't be accessed.

I did use the exact same binary to flash both devices and I re-flashed the second AP from the interface, however that changed nothing.

The LEDs also did work in vendor operation (Boot, factory reset, tftp mode), so they aren't broken.

Another weird issue is that I can't access luci for a while when the AP is rebooted, it will just fail the web-UI connection (although I haven't found out yet if that's maybe a browser issue).

Then I've noticed a sticker from some kind of Brazilian telecom-company on the back of the case.

Is there any way to diagnose this issue? Could I maybe just export all the partitions from the working AP and upload them to the strange one or could that break anything?

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The first revisions of the U6-LR did have a 'full' RGB LED, due to supply chain issues they've replaced the LED with the 'normal' Blue/White one, it is also mentioned in the 'new' datasheet. I guess the 'ubnt-ledbar' driver still likes to manage the RGB LED instead of the Blue/White one with new revision AP's.