[Leesburg_Dave]

Hello. My GUI suddenly stopped working after attempting to set ntp server field from blank to 2.pool.ntp.org. I can SSH in just fine using Windows PUTTY.exe, but when attempting to access GUI via browser. Without the GUI available, can I back out the change to NTP Server field back to blank?

Running DD-WRT v24-sp2. Shell is BusyBox v1.22.0.

This is what I get when I log in via SSH (if that helps at all)

login as: root
DD-WRT v24-sp2 std (c) 2014 NewMedia-NET GmbH
Release: 01/10/14 (SVN revision: 23320)
root@192.168.0.7's password:
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||_| ||_||_____\ V V / | _ < | | \ V / / __/|__ _|
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DD-WRT v24-sp2
http://www.dd-wrt.com

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BusyBox v1.22.0 (2014-01-10 07:24:25 CET) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

root@LanternWaste:~#

Thanks so much!

[Leesburg_Dave]

...just so you know, I'm trying to avoid the 30/30/30 reset just because I have to go back through all the setup and (more importantly) my family gets mad at me when I disrupt the internet service

Also, I did not find anything in the NVRAM (did nvram show) that has pool.ntp.org in it so I don't even know if the ntp change "took" when I hit apply. It was after I hit apply and the router booted, that I lost the GUI - all of the browsers just say, "unable to connect," yet all of the services I had configured before still appear to be working. Is there some place other than tmp/var/logs/messages or NVRAM that I should be looking to see what might be preventing the web GUI from running?

[mittelhessen]

I've had the problem that the web-interface of my WRT54GL crashed if i added too many services on the qos-list (i think, this is a bug). Normally you access the web-interface via http://<router-ip>. Try to use https://<router-ip>, because http-webinterface is another service than https-webinterface. If you have luck you'll reach the https-interface.

[Leesburg_Dave]

No joy there either. Same on both http and https. I guess I'll punt and try 30/30/30 reset and if that doesn't work, I guess I'll try nvram erase. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any way (that I can tell) to stop SAMBA service without going through the GUI so while I can umount the partitions I used to use for optware (before removing it), I can't umount the sda1 volume which SAMBA uses. Good news is no one has any shared files open so hopefully nothing will go wrong there.

[LOM]

The most common reason for disappearing gui or garbled gui is running optware which has copied your contents of system directories onto harddisk and accessing them from there.
It works until you update dd-wrt to a build with a later linux kernel version without updating system directories on the harddisk. You can not use old system directories together with a new kernel!

[Leesburg_Dave]

Thanks. That makes complete sense. I had been using optware, but found no significant benefit other than seeing directory listings in color like normal Linux distributions. I thought I could use Swap but since it turned out that was not available, I couldn't really find a benefit so I renamed optware.enable to optware.disable and it worked until I tried to modify the Samba settings. I must have changed something somewhere else back when I was playing with optware enhancements that survived through the reboot with optware.disable. The 30/30/30 reset worked fine and it didn't take me as long as I thought it would to put everything back.