Problem with WL500gP, settings all gone after reboot

[Alwin]

Hello all,

I'm having big troubles with my WL500gP and Oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-7g. All settings are gone after a reboot and I cannot even putty (SSH) to the router. Only telnet works and all settings / installations are gone (dropbear, MC, Samba2 etc.) when browsing through the router with telnet.

It's really weird, because I always perform the following command when rebooting:

flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

What's also quite weird, that this problem does not always happen with every reboot.

Does someone please have more information regarding my problem? It's quite a big problem, because it will be useless to install any program... hopefully I can get all this to work and use my 500Gb USB HD as a fileserver... :)

ps. I followed all instructions for installing programs by Moody Blue at this link
http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=5909&page=3

[Cowgoesmoo]

I had a simmilar issue.

What I ended up doing was copying the file made by flashfs to my usb stick and uploading it via the web interface.

Worked fine when I did that.

[raas]

Alwin,

did the suggested method work for you?

I'm having the same problems.

[Alwin]

what I end up doing is backing up the FlashFS every time I changed something and when this problem occurred, I just upload the FlashFS through the web-interface and all settings were restored.

I still haven't figured out the exact cause of this problem... perhaps someone else can help us?

[raas]

Well,

I found out the following.

I had several programs pointing to to /tmp/harddisk folder.

being a /tmp folder my guess is that the /tmp get's cleared after every reboot.

When I placed the files outside off the /tmp folder to the /opt folder the files are intact after a reboot

I reconfigured the programs to use the /opt -path and all is working now.