[Release] AB-Solution 3 - The Ad Blocking Solution

[iaTa]

I updated from 2.x using cu which worked fine.

Installed pixelserv which also went fine apart from an error on completion: Error: pixelserv-tls is not running. Any ideas?

Appreciate the huge amount of work that has gone into this, thank you.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I updated from 2.x using cu which worked fine.

Installed pixelserv which also went fine apart from an error on completion: Error: pixelserv-tls is not running. Any ideas?

Appreciate the huge amount of work that has gone into this, thank you.

Enter (dM) and post complete devMode output. Enter dM again to leave this mode.

 

[iaTa]

Enter (dM) and post complete devMode output. Enter dM again to leave this mode.

appState:5 stage:mh prevSett:1 news:0 nMsg:0
vUpd:0 majVer:3 instVer:3.0 appChk:0
dev:/tmp/mnt/USB path:/tmp/mnt/USB
tmpdev: psInstSt:5 psState:off
entware:1 entState:on entDevice:/tmp/mnt/USB
entDescr: readlink: /tmp/mnt/USB/ab-solution.sh

I tried removing everything and reinstalling from scratch, same issue.

 

[thelonelycoder]

appState:5 stage:mh prevSett:1 news:0 nMsg:0
vUpd:0 majVer:3 instVer:3.0 appChk:0
dev:/tmp/mnt/USB path:/tmp/mnt/USB
tmpdev: psInstSt:5 psState:off
entware:1 entState:on entDevice:/tmp/mnt/USB
entDescr: readlink: /tmp/mnt/USB/ab-solution.sh

I tried removing everything and reinstalling from scratch, same issue.

What happens if you run ps again?
Scroll up in the terminal after and post content.
It will start with:
writing the pixelserv-tls startup script

 

[iaTa]

What happens if you run ps again?
Scroll up in the terminal after and post content.
It will start with:
writing the pixelserv-tls startup script

writing the pixelserv-tls startup script
restarting pixelserv-tls to apply changes
Shutting down pixelserv-tls...              done.
Starting pixelserv-tls (AB-Solution)...              done.
checking if 192.168.1.2 responds
192.168.1.2 responded, continuing

Then the menu is shown.

 

[thelonelycoder]

writing the pixelserv-tls startup script
restarting pixelserv-tls to apply changes
Shutting down pixelserv-tls...              done.
Starting pixelserv-tls (AB-Solution)...              done.
checking if 192.168.1.2 responds
192.168.1.2 responded, continuing

Then the menu is shown.

Either your pixelserv-tls.add file is corrupt or the wget command is not working properly on your system.
Enter (cu) and select option 1. Redownload all add-on scripts
Then run ps again.
If it still happens try to find out if you can wget on the router.
Use this command exactly:
wget -q -t 5 www.ab-solution.info/releases/latest/version.info
If this does not work then the problem are the wget switches.

 

[iaTa]

Either your pixelserv-tls.add file is corrupt or the wget command is not working properly on your system.
Enter (cu) and select option 1. Redownload all add-on scripts
Then run ps again.
If it still happens try to find out if you can wget on the router.
Use this command exactly:
wget -q -t 5 www.ab-solution.info/releases/latest/version.info
If this does not work then the problem are the wget switches.

Entered cu, option 1, ps, same result.

Tested wget command, worked fine.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Entered cu, option 1, ps, same result.

Tested wget command, worked fine.

Technically, from the output you posted, everything seems to work.
Try this, don't leave the AB-Solution UI to do it:
Edit /adblocking/.config/ab-solution.cfg as such:
pixelserv="1"
psInstallState="6"
psState="on"
entware="1"
entwareState="on"
prevPsState=""
psLoggingState="off"

Then run option (11). It should be green all over.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Tested wget command, worked fine.

Just out of interest, what is the output of
wget --help

 

[iaTa]

Technically, from the output you posted, everything seems to work.
Try this, don't leave the AB-Solution UI to do it:
Edit /adblocking/.config/ab-solution.cfg as such:
pixelserv="1"
psInstallState="6"
psState="on"
entware="1"
entwareState="on"
prevPsState=""
psLoggingState="off"

Then run option (11). It should be green all over.

Yep, green all over:

[ps] pixelserv-tls   [192.168.1.2]
     entware device  [/tmp/mnt/USB]

Just out of interest, what is the output of
wget --help

Too many characters to put it all in here but I assume you just want the version:

GNU Wget 1.18, a non-interactive network retriever.
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

 

[thelonelycoder]

GNU Wget 1.18, a non-interactive network retriever.

That is exactly the problem: 1.18
Well, you got your pixelserv-tls installed.
Don't tell anyone I showed you a trick. It will not work in other scenarios.

 

[iaTa]

That is exactly the problem: 1.18
Well, you got your pixelserv-tls installed.
Don't tell anyone I showed you a trick. It will not work in other scenarios.

Ah Ok. I'm running hggomes firmware 380.62 and wget was updated to 1.18 in version 380.59: (27 JUN 16).

What exactly causes the issue on 1.18, different switches/output?

Thank you for your help and your secret is safe with me

 

[thelonelycoder]

Ah Ok. I'm running hggomes firmware 380.62 and wget was updated to 1.18 in version 380.59: (27 JUN 16).

What exactly causes the issue on 1.18, different switches/output?

Thank you for your help and your secret is safe with me

I was gonna say hggomes or john9527 had a hand in this.
I have set the scripts to use the system binaries but others may interfere with Merlin's work. 1.18 uses one of the switches for something else or simply removed it, cant remember.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Ah Ok. I'm running hggomes firmware 380.62 and wget was updated to 1.18 in version 380.59: (27 JUN 16).

What exactly causes the issue on 1.18, different switches/output?

Thank you for your help and your secret is safe with me

Will update scripts asap to use curl only. The curl maintainers seem not to drop things out of the blue, just for the sake of it.

 

[Makaveli]

I'm using 380.62 on my R7000 and I have AB solution 2.0.1 running.

Saw that version 3.0 is released.

So I open putty login to the router and when I run

./ab-solution.sh

I was hoping to upgrade from cu



*update*
I was able to get in using sh ab-solution.sh

Update completed and ./ab-solution.sh now works for me to launch it.

 

[john9527]

I have set the scripts to use the system binaries but others may interfere with Merlin's work.

It's not wget that caused the problem....the wget command you are using 'wget -q -t 5' is valid under both GNU and busybox wget (busybox ignores the -t though). Also, since it's the same as the previous release, I think it has to be something else.

EDIT: the common option which causes problems between the releases is the spider option....-s on busybox wget and --spider on GNU.

 

[baddog]

Great job, upgrade from v1.08-beta1 worked without a hiccup! Mail function works great too, thank you!

 

[akb]

I am having this issue when I run "ps", please advise. note i have download manager installed on ac88u which looks to be in /tmp/opt/

AB-Solution 3: pixelserv-tls install

checking your system

testing if 'ifconfig br0 up' works on your system
this appears to be working, continuing

found a folder named opt at
/tmp/opt

but Entware does not appear to be running.
Please investigate first.

-------------------------------------------------

Based on the check above, pixelserv-tls
is not available for install with AB-Solution

Hit [Enter] to return to Menu


EDIT: fix was just to remove symbolic link opt in tmp folder which pointed to the asuss download manager which i dont even use anyways

 

[splatee]

Just updated. Working great

Thank you for all your hard work

 

[tomsk]

I am having this issue when I run "ps", please advise. note i have download manager installed on ac88u which looks to be in /tmp/opt/

AB-Solution 3: pixelserv-tls install

checking your system

testing if 'ifconfig br0 up' works on your system
this appears to be working, continuing

found a folder named opt at
/tmp/opt

but Entware does not appear to be running.
Please investigate first.

-------------------------------------------------

Based on the check above, pixelserv-tls
is not available for install with AB-Solution

Hit [Enter] to return to Menu


EDIT: fix was just to remove symbolic link opt in tmp folder which pointed to the asuss download manager which i dont even use anyways

I believe that ASUS download manager uses optware, whereas ABsolution is trying to use entware. The two don't play nicely with each other, so you won't be able to run the download manager and use pixelserv as part of AB at the same time.