Skynet Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 1 Of 10 )

[LaMpiR]

Hi. I have upgraded to latest beta 3 firmware for my AX88U, but the router doesn't recognise the usb anymore. Running firewall command brings me this:

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# Router Firewall And Security Enhancements
# By Adamm - https://github.com/Adamm00/IPSet_ASUS
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Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 1 Of 10 )


Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Look in the router's System Log for error messages indicating what the problem is with the USB drive.

 

[LaMpiR]

USB was somehow corrupt. Format, reinstallad, created a new swap and reboot.
USB was unmounted before in the main panel, not its showing the usage. When I click on it, I see usage and so on, but under Firewall no Skynet.
When running the option firewall from ssh,

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# Router Firewall And Security Enhancements
# By Adamm - https://github.com/Adamm00/IPSet_ASUS
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Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 1 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 2 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 3 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 4 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 5 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 6 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 7 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 8 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 9 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 10 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 11 Of 10 )
Skynet: [*] Problem With USB Install Location - Please Fix Immediately!
Skynet: [*] To Change Install Location Run - ( sh /jffs/scripts/firewall install )

lampir@router:/tmp/home/root#

But its freshly installed?

 

[L&LD]

Can you test with another USB drive? This one may be shot.

 

[agilani]

after you reformat the USB drive
uninstall and re-install skynet

firewall uninstall

then re-run the re-installation script

 

[LaMpiR]

Tried it on windows, everything seems ok. I happened after the update to beta 2. I have order a new one for the router and will test it out tomorrow.

A strange thing happened when installing skynet and creating swap. My CPU usage was high, which was to be expected, but my free ram usage when from 250 to 30MB.

 

[LaMpiR]

Changed usb, formated to fat32. Installed skynet, but it didn't ask for swap creating. Still not working, the same error, USB not found.

an 7 13:03:32 kernel: usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd
Jan 7 13:03:32 kernel: usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jan 7 13:03:32 kernel: scsi host1: usb-storage 2-2:1.0
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 60088320 512-byte logical blocks: (30.8 GB/28.7 GiB)
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sda: sda1
Jan 7 13:03:33 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 7 13:03:34 kernel: tfat info: FAT32 volume name 'ESD-USB', version 0.0.
Jan 7 13:03:34 hotplug[4171]: USB vfat fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/ESD-USB
Jan 7 13:03:34 usb: USB vfat fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/ESD-USB.
Jan 7 13:03:34 kernel: tfat info: Exiting online fsck with status 4: completed successfully
Jan 7 13:03:34 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/post-mount (args: /tmp/mnt/ESD-USB)
Jan 7 13:08:29 Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 1 Of 10 )
Jan 7 13:08:39 Skynet: [*] USB Not Found - Sleeping For 10 Seconds ( Attempt 2 Of 10 )
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver cdc_mbim
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver cdc_ncm
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver qmi_wwan
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver cdc_wdm
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver rndis_host
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver cdc_ether
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver ax88179_178a
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver asix
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver cdc_acm
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver unloaded
Jan 7 13:09:41 kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver usblp
Jan 7 13:09:41 custom_script: Running /jffs/scripts/services-stop

 

[dave14305]

Does the skynetloc parameter in /jffs/scripts/firewall-start match your USB path? Might be easiest to rm /jffs/scripts/firewall-start and then reinstall.

 

[LaMpiR]

Does the skynetloc parameter in /jffs/scripts/firewall-start match your USB path? Might be easiest to rm /jffs/scripts/firewall-start and then reinstall.

Thank you

I have added another usb 16gb and formatted it properly with amtm (ext4) and installed it. Working now.

 

[xtv]

Something like this happened to me a few times.
Now I've noticed that the USB key is mapped sometimes as /dev/sda and some other times as /dev/sdb

At least in the last event this was the reason for Skynet to fail startup,
As Skynet was installed with the USB mounted in /dev/sda, the configuration was explicitly pointing to locations in /dev/sda, however a restart of the router remapped for unknown reasons the USB to /dev/sdb, thus Skynet was not able to find anymore the install dir and the swap.

I could restore Skynet without reinstalling, just changing the configuration.

Hint for maintainers:
While I don't know the reason* why the USB seems to roam from sda to sdb and back at restarts, I think that there could be some margins for improvements in detecting the correct install directory, maybe it could be achieved leveraging a symbolic link created at USB mount time like the one in /tmp/opt (which always points to the correct installation directory of entware) and change the default configuration to use the symbolic link.

* roaming could be due to a number of reasons, including slow USB mounting, an fsck, etc...

 

[LaMpiR]

I didn't have any problems with the new one so far. It's a bit too much with 16GB, but it works.

 

[ColinTaylor]

The drive mapping changing is a well know issue (and applies to Linux boxes generally not just this router). That is why it is recommended that people put a volume label on their devices rather then leave them unlabelled. That way the router always mounts the device with the same path, e.g. /tmp/mnt/VERBATIM.