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Topic: TL-WR2543ND loose configuration and installed packages after restart

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Post #1
isemionov
29 Sep 2012, 10:55

Hello! Please help me with very strange situation. I've installed on my TP-LINK TL-WR2543ND following firmware http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … actory.bin. Then installed LuCI,miniupnp configured network,wifi etc. Everything is OK except the thing if I'm restarting the system then it loose all configuration I did and installed packages and I can connect only trough telnet with default settings (and no wifi enabled, web gui,upnp etc). If I still do several reboots then at some time it finds all configuration I've done initially and works OK.
What could be the reason for such strange behavior? Can it be fixed ?

Thanks.

Post #2
jow
29 Sep 2012, 11:21

Attach the full kernel log (dmesg) here.

Post #3
isemionov
29 Sep 2012, 12:42

Hi Jow, in the mean time I've tried several times to revert to stock firmware and then flashing openwrt. Several times it failed with the same issue and only last time I got a stable system. But I will try to repeat it and if I'll manage to reproduce it then I'll collect dmesg.
By the way when it failed to start correctly I was able to login with telnet and when tried to change root password again it said that file system is read-only.

Thanks!

Post #4
isemionov
29 Sep 2012, 13:35

Hi Jow, I repeated the process 3 times more (revert to stock and back to openwrt) but unfortunately (or fortunately ) the issue wasn't reproduced again. In case if I'll get the issue again then I'll save firstly dmesg output and I'll post it to this topic.

Thanks for your time and have a nice weekend.

Post #5
isemionov
13 Oct 2012, 15:26

Hello, today when I restarted the router I've got the same issue described above.
Here is dmesg output for failed boot:

 === IMPORTANT ============================
  Use 'passwd' to set your login password
  this will disable telnet and enable SSH
 ------------------------------------------


BusyBox v1.19.4 (2012-09-25 18:39:47 PDT) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (Bleeding Edge, r33556)
 -----------------------------------------------------
  * 1/4 oz Vodka      Pour all ingredients into mixing
  * 1/4 oz Gin        tin with ice, strain into glass.
  * 1/4 oz Amaretto
  * 1/4 oz Triple sec
  * 1/4 oz Peach schnapps
  * 1/4 oz Sour mix
  * 1 splash Cranberry juice
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@(none):/# dmesg
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.3.8 (openwrt@snapon) (gcc version 4.6.3 20120201 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.02) ) #1 Wed Sep 26 04:42:21 PDT 2012
[    0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=00000000, boardp=00000000, parts=00000000
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR7242 rev 1
[    0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:5.000MHz
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 16384
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 8031b100, node_mem_map 81000000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 16256 pages, LIFO batch:3
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=TL-WR2543N console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Memory: 61324k/65536k available (2216k kernel code, 4212k reserved, 581k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
[    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[    0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.090000] gpiochip_add: registered GPIOs 0 to 17 on device: ath79
[    0.100000] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR2543N/ND
[    0.130000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[    0.340000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.350000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    0.350000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x10000000-0x13ffffff]
[    0.360000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000]
[    0.360000] pci 0000:00:00.0: [168c:0030] type 0 class 0x000280
[    0.360000] pci 0000:00:00.0: invalid calibration data
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0x00000000-0x0001ffff 64bit]
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 30: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff pref]
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x10000000-0x1001ffff 64bit]
[    0.370000] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x10020000-0x1002ffff pref]
[    0.380000] pci 0000:00:00.0: using irq 40 for pin 1
[    0.380000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[    0.390000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.390000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.400000] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.410000] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.410000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[    0.420000] TCP reno registered
[    0.420000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.430000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.440000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.440000] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[    0.460000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.460000] JFFS2 version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.480000] msgmni has been set to 119
[    0.480000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
[    0.490000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.490000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.500000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    0.530000] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
[    0.540000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.550000] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25sl064a, expected m25p80
[    0.560000] m25p80 spi0.0: s25sl064a (8192 Kbytes)
[    0.560000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.570000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.570000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[    0.580000] 0x000000020000-0x00000011d3a4 : "kernel"
[    0.580000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[    0.600000] 0x00000011d3a4-0x0000007f0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.600000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[    0.620000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
[    0.620000] mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=2A0000, len=550000
[    0.630000] 0x0000002a0000-0x0000007f0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.640000] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "art"
[    0.640000] 0x000000020000-0x0000007f0000 : "firmware"
[    0.660000] rtl8367 rtl8367: using GPIO pins 1 (SDA) and 6 (SCK)
[    0.660000] rtl8367 rtl8367: RTL8367R ver. 0 chip found
[    2.570000] rtl8367: probed
[    2.570000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
[    3.130000] TCP cubic registered
[    3.130000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    3.130000] Bridge firewalling registered
[    3.140000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    3.150000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[    3.160000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
[    5.150000] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[    5.480000] Registered led device: tp-link:green:usb
[    5.480000] Registered led device: tp-link:green:wps
Post #6
nebbia88
13 Oct 2012, 20:02

it's truncated..

maybe link a txt file uploaded somewhere wink

Post #8
MBS
14 Oct 2012, 18:05

it very much looks like truncated. where is the command prompt after dmesg has finished? or did dmesg hang when issued?

Post #9
isemionov
14 Oct 2012, 19:15

I just copy/paste dmesg output from putty terminal window and didn't selected prompt input

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