Figured it would be safe to post here since this thread is about compatibility of the Asus GT-AX6000 with Merlin. If I should start a new thread instead please let me know.
I purchased a GT-AX6000 used off eBay, and it appears to be in excellent condition physically. However, when I flash it with the latest release of Merlin (GT-AX6000_386.7_2_nand_squashfs.pkgtb) I cannot mount a USB Drive and through SSH I cannot launch "amtm", and receive the following error;
...:/# amtm
mkdir: can't create directory '/jffs/addons/': Read-only file system
amtm failed to create the directory
/jffs/addons/amtm
Please investigate. Aborting amtm now.
When I do a "df -h" I see the root mount at 100% capacity as follows;
...:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 57.5M 57.5M 0 100% /
devtmpfs 409.3M 4.0K 409.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 497.5M 472.0K 497.0M 0% /var
tmpfs 497.5M 2.5M 495.0M 1% /tmp/mnt
ubi:data 16.8M 5.1M 10.8M 32% /data
ubi:defaults 5.7M 376.0K 5.0M 7% /tmp/mnt/defaults
tmpfs 497.5M 2.5M 495.0M 1% /tmp/mnt
ubi:defaults 5.7M 376.0K 5.0M 7% /tmp/mnt/defaults
tmpfs 497.5M 2.5M 495.0M 1% /tmp
ubi:defaults 5.7M 376.0K 5.0M 7% /tmp/mnt/defaults
/dev/sda1 117.1G 59.7M 111.1G 0% /tmp/mnt/Samsung128G
Also, in the Web GUI under Administration | System under "Persistent JFFS2 partition", I only have the option for "Enable JFFS custom scripts and configs" (set to Yes), but not the option for Format JFFS on next Reboot.
I this due to a possible misconfiguration with NVRAM commands, or is it possibly a Bad / Failed NVRAM Module?
Also, I found the following in the syslog file, but not positive they are relevant to this issue;
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May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0 warning: ubi_calculate_reserved: number of bad PEBs (360) is above the expected limit (40), not reserving any PEBs for bad PEB handling, will use available PEBs (if any)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: attached mtd2 (name "image", size 252 MiB)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: good PEBs: 1656, bad PEBs: 360, corrupted PEBs: 0
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: user volume: 8, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 1196/332, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 1616815245
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: available PEBs: 280, total reserved PEBs: 1376, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 0
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 118
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EGPHY:0x1
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EGPHY:0x2
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EGPHY:0x3
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EGPHY:0x4
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EXT3:0x11
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: 10GAE:0x6
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: EXT3:0x13
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Registered phy device: 10GAE:0x7
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_10" started, PID 213
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 10, name "data"
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): FS size: 19808256 bytes (18 MiB, 156 LEBs), journal size 1015809 bytes (0 MiB, 8 LEBs)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): reserved for root: 935592 bytes (913 KiB)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:10): media format: w5/r0 (latest is w5/r0), UUID B82B22E7-0A12-462E-A9CD-AB885355D242, small LPT model
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_11" started, PID 229
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 11, name "defaults"
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): FS size: 7237632 bytes (6 MiB, 57 LEBs), journal size 1015809 bytes (0 MiB, 6 LEBs)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): reserved for root: 341850 bytes (333 KiB)
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: UBIFS (ubi0:11): media format: w5/r0 (latest is w5/r0), UUID A1A7E880-F36A-4F3F-9ECB-D20BDE0182E7, small LPT model
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: not enough PEBs, only 280 available
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 13, error -28
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: wlcsm: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
May 5 01:05:17 kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
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I did completely Reset the Router as soon as I powered it on and a few times more when I flashed to previous versions of Merlin and Asus downloaded Firmware. None of this helped the situation at all.
Any help / guidance is greatly appreciated, as I cannot install anything (Diversion, Skynet, Entware, etc) on the Router till this is resolved, or I just end up returning the Router to the Seller as defective.
Thanks in advance!