Misleading Browser Tab Title After Failed Installation

[Black Hole]

I'm in the middle of configuring a HD-FOX as a Foxlink client. After clicking Install Full Interface and the browser refreshing, the tab reads "Customised firmware succes..." but closer inspection of the actual page shows "Error installing packages. Please try again.".

 

[prpr]

Well the firmware was successfully installed - it's just the package installation that failed for whatever reason.

 

[EEPhil]

The error message is fairly explicit. I'd be annoyed if I got the message after a second attempt. (On other systems I have come across similar messages which clear on a second attempt. To be fair, I've also had some that repeat the same error message and require some detective work to solve the problem.)

 

[Black Hole]

Well the firmware was successfully installed

That's true enough, but IIRC (and that's not trustworthy) the tab title only became that after the package installation problem. To get the the download page at all required the firmware to have been successfully installed!

it's just the package installation that failed for whatever reason.

Crap UPD. I bought a batch of three 64GB UPDs around the time of the "2TB" ones (not the same source) for this purpose, and they are total sh*t. Slow to format, slow to write, and then when I did get a successful download run, reboot and it was back to "no disk found"! Had me chasing my tail for hours yesterday. Try one of my standby Cruzer Dials and the experience was so different.

 

[EEPhil]

Why do you keep buying carp [sic] devices?

 

[Black Hole]

carp [sic]

What's sic about that? It's not what I wrote!

These were not obviously fake, 64GB is not unreasonable and they were not too cheap.

 

[MikeSh]

These were not obviously fake, 64GB is not unreasonable and they were not too cheap.

I tend to stick with known brands where possible, but there's so much knock-off stuff around even that's not a guarantee.

 

[bottletop]

I tend to stick with known brands where possible, but there's so much knock-off stuff around even that's not a guarantee.

I also try to test new devices as soon as I get them. Make sure they work reliably and to spec.

 

[prpr]

That's true enough, but IIRC (and that's not trustworthy) the tab title only became that after the package installation problem.

You can look at it yourself in /var/bootstrap/

 

[prpr]

I bought a batch of three 64GB UPDs around the time of the "2TB" ones (not the same source) for this purpose, and they are total sh*t. Slow to format, slow to write, and then when I did get a successful download run, reboot and it was back to "no disk found"! Had me chasing my tail for hours yesterday.

Have you forgotten all the f3 stuff from a few weeks ago? Just test stuff and bin what doesn't work. It isn't worth the waste of time.

 

[Black Hole]

Just test stuff and bin what doesn't work. It isn't worth the waste of time.

That just feeds them. They're getting it back!

 

[Black Hole]

FWIW, f3 doesn't report any problem with these units. They're just flaky rather than fraudulent.