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I can't execute command x from the Post Installation guide, what is wrong?
First of all double check if you typed in the command correctly. If so, your box is maybe not done with installation. The first clue is, that your command line looks like this root@OpenWrt:~#. The hostname is still OpenWrt, which is changed during a successful installation.
It seems my installation is still running, what went wrong?
If your box is online for more then 45 minutes, you may take a look into it to see what is going on. When you telnet into the box, like described in the installation guide, and execute the command ps , you have a long multiple line output. If you are able to spot a line including “opkg”, then everything is fine and it just take another while to finish. You can watch the installation using the following command ( using CTRL+C to exit the command)
tail -f /var/log/messages
If you can't find opkg lines, maybe your installation is stuck in detecting the USB stick. That can happen if the USB stick does not have a proper partition table, so in the system the device appears only as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1. When you run tail /var/log/messages you are able to spot a loong dotted line, which means “Searching for USB”. You can verify the assumption using this command ls /dev/sd*, if you see only /dev/sda you might have an USB partition problem. The quickest solution is to change the PirateBox configuration to use the USB stick without the partition one indicate. To do so run the following commands:
sed -i 's;sda1;sda;' /etc/ext.config
reboot & exit
After executing those line, the box will log you off and reboot. After the reboot is done, the installation tries to use /dev/sda only. See the tail commands above to watch at the installation progress. If you still have trouble, please post in the PirateBox Forum and include the output of the technical summary below.
Clik here to view.
I can't execute command x from the Post Installation guide, what is wrong?
First of all double check if you typed in the command correctly. If so, your box is maybe not done with installation. The first clue is, that your command line looks like this root@OpenWrt:~#. The hostname is still OpenWrt, which is changed during a successful installation.
It seems my installation is still running, what went wrong?
If your box is online for more then 45 minutes, you may take a look into it to see what is going on. When you telnet into the box, like described in the installation guide, and execute the command ps , you have a long multiple line output. If you are able to spot a line including “opkg”, then everything is fine and it just take another while to finish. You can watch the installation using the following command ( using CTRL+C to exit the command)
tail -f /var/log/messages
If you can't find opkg lines, maybe your installation is stuck in detecting the USB stick. That can happen if the USB stick does not have a proper partition table, so in the system the device appears only as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1. When you run tail /var/log/messages you are able to spot a loong dotted line, which means “Searching for USB”. You can verify the assumption using this command ls /dev/sd*, if you see only /dev/sda you might have an USB partition problem. The quickest solution is to change the PirateBox configuration to use the USB stick without the partition one indicate. To do so run the following commands:
sed -i 's;sda1;sda;' /etc/ext.config
reboot & exit
After executing those line, the box will log you off and reboot. After the reboot is done, the installation tries to use /dev/sda only. See the tail commands above to watch at the installation progress. If you still have trouble, please post in the PirateBox Forum and include the output of the technical summary below.
