Joined: 07 Jan 2025 Posts: 242 Location: Bethel Park, PA, USA
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2025 23:49 Post subject:
It was snowflakes, but per kp69, we're outside of the winter "window" where the snow is supposed to show up. I've seen the same funky characters show up right after flash on R7800s and MR7350s. After a refresh in the browser, it goes away and doesn't come back - until the next flash. I assume come November/December, the snowflakes will be back. _________________ Formerly dpp3530 Linksys MR7350
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Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 16713 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 3:05 Post subject:
The issue should be fixed in current releases. And "snow" (or the graphical anomalies) should only show until NTP syncs in older ones pre-fix, just refresh the page. I'm pretty sure that the previous thread(s) wasn't / weren't locked...
After a refresh in the browser, it goes away and doesn't come back - until the next flash. I assume come November/December, the snowflakes will be back.
It did come back. I am not talking from a technical knowledge but the only things that I can think to trigger it are 1) browser update; or 2) newly assigned DHCP address.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 16713 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2025 14:51 Post subject:
If you're going to stay an a pre-fixed firmware release, then it's going to come back. If it's an issue on the current release, then we'll discuss.
kernel-panic69 wrote:
The snowflakes issue should be resolved in a future release. The reason for the odd characters is probably due to the month and day not being in the time period required or some other anomaly (?):
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2025 23:17 Post subject: Re: Is this what users are calling snow?
adFFhd1 wrote:
There are about 12 "graphics" flowing down the screen. Each graphic is a question mark with a boarder + o + [ (3 characters total).
My build is from the spring and I'm finally seeing these three characters "?o[" "snow" falling since it's the final week of December. Do more recent builds have different/better snow now? Just curious. Kind of fun.
Thanks for the info. The extra edit you added to your "UI themes!" post linking to Changeset 63138 with the checkin message "damn" answers my question. The question mark character mentioned in the OP in June (and quoted by me today) was not intentional and the 3 day old fix will show up in a future release giving future builds different/better snow.
Could have lived without the rolling your eyes emoji but six months to fix this bug report is indeed quite long.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 16713 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 3:47 Post subject:
Trac was being stupid prior to this changeset breaking page rendering, so I guess he figured out a different way to code it, but httpd didn't quite like the fix, I guess(?):
There was no feedback until recently that showed the bad characters, as evidenced in those other two threads... I guess it's a matter of "take a look around" ... but hey, bump the oldest post about it is quite fine, I guess... problem will be resolved, nonetheless. Even if Trac is now rendering garbage again (looks okay on github):
There was no feedback until recently that showed the bad characters, as evidenced in those other two threads... I guess it's a matter of "take a look around" ... but hey, bump the oldest post about it is quite fine, I guess... problem will be resolved, nonetheless. Even if Trac is now rendering garbage again (looks okay on github):
Firstly kp69 your voluminous quality contributions to these forums are a treasure trove of information and truly much appreciated.
I had done my due diligence and looked around the forums and seen the post by @egc showing the line of code which decides when to display snow. I compared my build's version with LATEST and saw that a year check was added to address the "when" to display problem in the OP.
The "what" to display problem in the OP was harder to assess because as you said Trac was displaying unreadable code for the recent versions of that file. I chose to reply to the only thread I found that specifically mentioned the (bizarre to me who is 0% artistic) choice of characters.
The github image you posted seems to show an asterisk will be the snow which seems much more logical so this thread is resolved.
