Solved Error message: Licenses haven't been accepted previously

[amortimer]

Hi,

I did a fresh reconfig of my router, an RT-AX86U on Merlin 386.3, after a factory reset but cannot seem to get spdMerlin running automatically.

Am seeing the following spdMerlin errors in my logs:
Aug 4 10:07:52 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses haven't been accepted previously, nothing to load
Aug 4 10:08:02 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses haven't been accepted previously, nothing to load
Aug 4 10:08:15 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses not accepted, stopping
Aug 4 10:08:24 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses haven't been accepted previously, nothing to load
Aug 4 10:08:27 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses haven't been accepted previously, nothing to load
Aug 4 10:08:45 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses not accepted, stopping
Aug 4 10:08:45 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses accepted and saved to persistent storage
Aug 4 10:08:45 cerberus spdMerlin: Starting speedtest using auto-selected server for WAN interface
Aug 4 10:09:08 cerberus spdMerlin: Speedtest results - Download: 938.32 Mbps (data used: 703.7 MB) - Upload: 938.07 Mbps (data used: 1.1 GB)
Aug 4 10:09:08 cerberus spdMerlin: Connection quality - Latency: 1.61 ms (0.12 ms jitter) - Packet Loss: 0.0%
Aug 4 10:09:08 cerberus spdMerlin: Retrieving data for WebUI charts
Aug 4 10:11:51 cerberus spdMerlin: Licenses haven't been accepted previously, nothing to load
Aug 4 10:11:51 cerberus spdMerlin: Starting speedtest using auto-selected server for WAN interface
Aug 4 10:12:01 cerberus spdMerlin: Lock file found (age: 10 seconds) - stopping to prevent duplicate runs
Aug 4 10:12:14 cerberus spdMerlin: Speedtest results - Download: 933.17 Mbps (data used: 675.7 MB) - Upload: 938.39 Mbps (data used: 1.1 GB)
Aug 4 10:12:14 cerberus spdMerlin: Connection quality - Latency: 2.11 ms (0.20 ms jitter) - Packet Loss: 0.0%
Aug 4 10:12:14 cerberus spdMerlin: Retrieving data for WebUI charts

I checked /root/.config/ookla and the speedtest-cli.json file seems to be present.

Any ideas?

 

[L&LD]

Did you use an old backup config file after you did a full reset? Did you plug in the USB drive into the router without formatting it on a computer first?

 

[amortimer]

Did you use an old backup config file after you did a full reset? Did you plug in the USB drive into the router without formatting it on a computer first?

Thanks for reply.

Everything started from fresh. even the drive was reformatted clean.
Details in my memory are vague but I think I did not do an initial run Option 1 (Run a speedtest now) in the spdMerlin cli UI before I started configuring it. When I finished configuring, and did run the test, there were some initial prompts about licensing which I tried responding with "y", "Y", "yes", "accept" etc. Tests run manually now but with a licensing error message.

I'm going to try removing the speedtest-cli.json file as well as config files in the spdMerlin.d directories and start over again.

 

[amortimer]

Update - not exactly sure what went wrong and what I did to cause it to begin with.. but after posting the initial query and seeing L&LD's response, I tried removing the speedtest-cli.json and config files etc w/o much success..

so I decided to take the path of least resistance and went ahead with uninstalling spdMerlin via amtm and restarted the router. Made sure I was extra paranoid and checked all known locations to make sure all vestiges were removed and even checked the messages log to make sure it was clean of spdMerlin messages or processes. I added spdMerlin again and made sure I ran the test FIRST before all else.

Sigh.. No errors. Problem went away. so I guess you could say it was solved. Think I'm reverting to noob ways as I advance in age.

Thanks, L&LD for the attention and question.

 

[thecheapseats]

a known issue on ax86u models installing spdMerlin... see/read here - specifically, note Jack's response for a future 'fix'...

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/spdmerlin-v4-x-speedtest-and-bandwidth-monitoring.67855/page-23#post-702516

there are a few ways to brute force the install to accept the licenses so spdMerlin doesn't post an error in the syslog every time it performs a scheduled run...

 

[amortimer]

Ahh, thanks. so i wasn't losing my sanity or doing something stupid as well. Good to know that.

The curious thing is the license message thingamabob not happening if I remove everything completely, do the install again, accept and run the initial test first.

Ah well.

 

[thecheapseats]

Ahh, thanks. so i wasn't losing my sanity or doing something stupid as well. Good to know that.

The curious thing is the license message thingamabob not happening if I remove everything completely, do the install again, accept and run the initial test first.

Ah well.

this is all academic now, as spdMerlin has been patched... see here, v 4.4.0 just released a few hours ago...

spdMerlin - spdMerlin - v4.x - speedtest and bandwidth monitoring

So I just got a 1.5Gbps connection and installed spdMerlin to test it. I don't have any 10Gbps capable devices at home and am using an AC-RT68U so understand that the router itself can only handle 1Gbps. spdMerlin installed is v4.3.0. I don't have any QoS setup. spdMerlin is setup to run once...

www.snbforums.com

however, it's not curious at all - there were vestiges of some 'config-or-another' laying around (I never bothered to look for it) that eventually allowed the license to be accepted if you smacked the ax86 hard enough... pure luck if you stumbled upon the method... another case of playing 'fool the hardware/machine', indirectly...

but, it was absolutely reproducible on any ax86u after a full reset and wax-on/wax-off rebuild... I tested it on three different ax86u units... like I said, it is of no matter now - as it's been patched in v 4.4.0...

to date I've found three or four buggy things that ax86 units unexpectedly do, which its closest previous cousin, the ax88, handles perfectly well... go figure... pick your toy and pray...