mar0ni Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 as used to, i upgraded the os of my newly received mk7 just now. the problem is now, recon and pineap is not working anymore. error message shown is always 'pineap not started'. also, filters cannot be switched from 'deny' to allow. probably further issues. now i will have to do recovery. is it not advised to do a upgrade of the installed openwrt packages at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mental Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Umm at the moment I have upgraded and not seen any issues so far, I have seen loads of people have scripts which do have opkg update in... I would suggest resetting the device if nothink is working and maybe see how it is after also there is a diagnostics mode in settings and do that and check the output 👍 Hope it works and happy ethically hacking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabbelebab Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I encountered the exact same thing: after updating all packages on a freshly installed and configured MK7 (firmware 1.0.2) the PineAP failed to start. I had to perform a factory reset and have not yet had the time to retry. I switched to 1.1.0 beta for other reasons (usb-modeswitch) and also have not tried to upgrade that one, just some packages. Note that upgrading all upgradable packages through a single command line ('opkg list-upgradable | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | xargs opkg upgrade' or equivalent) on OpenWRT and derivatives has always been discouraged and that is what I did anyway. hostapd is one of the packages that is upgradable and well that is a key package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrizree Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Doing upgrades is of course standard procedure in most cases, but when it comes to the Mk7 it is generally good advise to avoid upgrading since it might break things (as experienced in this thread). It's at least what I've taken note of in previous Discord discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabbelebab Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I just retried upgrading through opkg but this time by manually entering several opkg upgrade commands: again PineAP won't started. My conclusion: do not use the opkg upgrades unless you're really, really sure a package does not interfere with the main functionality. I guess upgrading curl, nana, vim, busybox, etc. would not be an issue but hostapd, wpad, dnsmasq might. Up to a factory reset it is ;-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrizree Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I think that is a correct observation and wise conclusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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