I got my device several months ago and for a few weeks had fun getting it up and running, but then set it aside for awhile after getting into a state where I'd given up on what I was trying to do. Now I'd like to dust it off and bring it back to life.

But, here's the thing - somewhere along the line I lost my web gui. I think I broke a symlink or something, because when I hit 192.168.3.1 all I get is a ".." and "/lib" option, like it's pointing to a directory that still exists but no longer has any content. Since I haven't touched the device in awhile I'd like to make sure I start with any flash updates, and that's the easiest way I know to get them.

There's nothing that I did to it that I can't recreate, so, can I completely factory reset this thing so that whatever it came with originally, I'm back to that state? Or, barring that, is there a way that I can get the web ui back? If I can find the files hiding on my external storage because I moved them incorrectly, where do I put them back?

@Zogg-Baubas Well, it seems my likelihood of doing that is going down fast. I guess I can reformat the drive to ext4? I only went with HFS because I'd been using the drive on a separate machine and it was already formatted (and loaded with a few hundred gig of files). But if that's what I gotta do, I guess that's what I gotta do.

@WereCatf Fair enough -- but as a third option, maybe I could find a previous version of the hfs support module that was intended to work with an earlier kernel version, that satisfies the dependency?

I'm quite excited to report that I've basically gotten my media server running! I got minidlna up and running, adding a movie file, and successfully saw the server on my Roku box (connected to my television) and streamed the file. As we say in my part of the world, wicked awesome.

My next move was to switch from the 32G thumb drive I'd been using for portability, to the terabyte drive where I keep all my media.

Problem. It tells me that I don't have HFS+ support at the kernel. Fine, I go looking for it:

root@Omega-7C0F:/etc/config# opkg list | grep hfs
hfsfsck - 332.25-1 - Utilities to create and check HFS/HFS+ filesystems. (fsck.hfs and fsck.hfsplus for checking integrity of HFS/HFS+ volumes)
kmod-fs-hfs - 4.4.45-1 - Kernel module for HFS filesystem support
kmod-fs-hfsplus - 4.4.45-1 - Kernel module for HFS+ filesystem support

Alas, I don't like that 45, because:

satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-fs-hfsplus:

• kernel (= 4.4.45-1-fe1bc68f978d8185c583d2d3048a7dfc) *

root@Omega-7C0F:/etc/config# opkg list-installed | grep kernel
kernel - 4.4.42-1-11683ab37b13c3e3a6d241c5792626ed

Seems I'm literally THIS close to where I need to be. What are my options here? Is there a way for me to find a previous version of the HFS+ support module that will work with my kernel? Dare I attempt a kernel upgrade of my own? Is that something that's upgraded regularly by the good people at Onion? I've come this far, there's got to be a simple solution to the problem.

Ok, maybe the reset did work -- I got SSH back (after removing an old entry from my .ssh/known_hosts file), and came into a machine that remembered nothing of my previous setup, no mounted storage cards, no wifi recognized ... but fine, I can work with that.

What's surprising is that in /overlay/upper/www/console there's nothing. Just a lib directory. Is that right? Where'd my console go? Can I independently download that from a different source? I liked it, especially for firmware upgrade.

@Luciano-S. Sorry - Omega2+, with the mini dock.

After discovering that my USB storage and memory card were both mounted and usable after the latest firmware upgrade, I went to town and started installing all the packages I wanted to play with (git, nodejs, python...) and promptly ran out of space on / again.

Long story short, I spent some time mucking around and trying to move directories over to removable storage to free up space (making adjustments in opkg.conf to make better use of my new storage, for example). Now when I try to get back into the device, not only does it not respond to SSH, the web console doesn't even come up. I get the generic "index" page like the web server is running but it's pointing to an empty directory.

I feel like I've done this before, but what do I need to do to get it back to factory reset condition? I'm getting more efficient with getting it back up and running every time I do this :). I thought it was "hold the reset button down for up to 30 seconds" but I try that, the LED starts blinking quickly after about 10 seconds, but then upon reboot I'm back where I started from.

@Daniel-Hinds-Bond I have not gotten it working yet -- i've got another post up about why block-mount is missing from packages and how to get that part working, too.

Trying to get my OS moved to USB and I've realized that executing a 'reboot' causes my device to basically halt and never come back. I have to power cycle it at that point. This isn't normal reboot functionality. Does it happen to anybody else? I recently factory restored the device so the odds that I have something special about my device are pretty small.