Upgrade using ASU (gui or owut) always times out

[85ag]

I am running openwrt on an intel cpu, with rootfs set to 1024.

when trying to upgrade from 25.12.1,

owut always timeout at around 600s.

is there a way to have a longer time period?
im assuming compiling openwrt with a lot of package could take longer than 10 minutes...

is there another way to overcome this?
can i run asu server locally?
is there a more-or-less user-friendly way to compile openwrt so that ill have the configuration, packages, and rootfs size so i could maybe just 'flash' another image to get to the state?

thanks.

[efahl]

@85ag

owut always timeout at around 600s.

is there a way to have a longer time period?
im assuming compiling openwrt with a lot of package could take longer than 10 minutes...

That's a server issue, even my biggest x86 builds only take 3-4 minutes. What step is the server in when it times out? If it's at Status: validate_manifest, then there's something going on with the downloads server, probably the package feeds are having issues (that's what I think all the wget status 8 errors are, too).

can i run asu server locally?

Yes, but that will probably have the same issues, as it's almost never the ASU server itself causing these issues, but rather the upstream connections to downloads.openwrt.org.

[85ag]

Ok...

any way better than just keep retrying to upgrade?

i was trying for a while now..
im on 25.12.1, and im trying every couple of days since 25.12.2 came out... were already at 25.12.3 ....

[Dante]

If you're on Linux or Windows, check out Bouwer:

Bouwer: desktop firmware builder GUI (Linux/Windows)

Some users expressed interest in building their own images locally, but lack the skills to either set up the necessary dependencies for the prepackaged image builder, or use containerized images. With that in mind I made a simplified desktop GUI for the official image builders. The app uses Podman or Docker under the hood, so some assembly required. Features Allows easy configuration of installed packages, setting the size of the root filesystem, disabling unwanted services, and including a fi…

[efahl]

And if you do use Bouwer, please report back.

The wget status 8 issues are occurring inside the containerized image builder, when apk downloads the packages from downloads.openwrt.org, so the issue should follow the container around, irrespective of whether it is run on the ASU server or a local host...

[85ag]

Sorry it took me so long to answer -

i used Bouwer to generate the images, and it seems pretty great...
it worked out easily and it seems to be able to get the existing list of all the installed packages easily, but when i finally got the time when i could try to use it - it trying upgrading again, and it just worked (switching to 25.12.4)

So i haven't fully tested it yet.

I still think its a great idea, and if i could set it to run on my x86 to create images with the current packages and settings ready as a backup would be great if possible...

maybe ill try it again on the next upgrade if ill have any issues.

Thanks, and sorry for the partial-testing/feedback.