Just updated to 1078. All worked fine via the web interface - none of the oddities reported above.
Couple of things: if i reboot the unit (from the web interface, cos the asus is physically upstairs and i'm lazy) and telnet in, i can work for a bit (with different prompt) before connection is dropped/kicked after say 30secs. then when i log back in, the login prompt is different; all good tho!
Done as said: renamed old opt dir /shares/MYVOLUME1/opt to something else, and copied the 'new' /opt in place to start afresh from. However,
doing 'ipkg update' gives me the following, and i can't add any new packages afterwards (e.g. optware-devel etc)
Code:
$ ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages.gz
wget: missing URL
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Try `wget --help' for more options.
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget -q -P http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages.gz'
also, whenever i try to do 'sudo bash' i get something about /opt/etc/sudoers being owned by gid 42000 should be 0.
but i love the whole 'press copy button to use default boot' - great solution to mucked up rc.local, and finally a fix for /bin/sh -> /opt/bin/bash. great stuff.
UPDATE: ok ok ok...so my asus couldn't actually access the wider world (was reset to gateway mode not access point which is how i normally have it). so ipkg thing fixed, but the sudo oddity still there...