negativeZero

Upgrading to WhiteRussian RC6

The other day I came accross the upgrade of OpenWrt, my favourite Asus WL-HDD firmare. I gave a ikpg an upgrade shot and ended up with a broken system. How come ? The upgrade obviously did some changes which resulted in unability to install to other package root but 'root'. See, I install almost everything into 'opt' which is 60GB HDD. Ahh, I know, I envy myself too, don't worry.

So, ipkg would fail with 'no space left on device', and true. There was 0 Kb free. Looking around, I found out that the problem was caused by libopenssl, that's size was around 1.3MB, on a 2MB partition,  that hurts.

What is the strategy in that case ? Do not retstart. Uninstall all you can, in my case USB drivers, vfat kernel modules and all that was not immediately needed. Then I tried to upgrade libopenssl  to 'opt' where it belongs, but ipkg would not. So I would always end up with 'no space left on device'. Then I prayed for a short while and restarted. Not sure what helped, but the restart did it.

After the restart all worked like a charm. And I made a great discovery -- webif^2. Looks great, feels great. Price: 130KB of memory. Nevermind. Worth the try.

Posted at 10:20AM Nov 20, 2006 by bs31 in Personal  |  Comments[0]