"Still determining local interface address. Please try reloading page in a few moments." problem
This isn't a big deal, since I can recover control by rebooting or power cycling the Kiwi.
This message greeted me on several Kiwis after SW upgrades.
/var/log/messages ends with:
...
Nov 4 23:47:11 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:00:48.802 0.234567 TIMEZONE: "PST", "America\/Los_Angeles"
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.468 0.234567 [07] PWD isLocal_if_ip: IPv4 client, but no server IPv4/IPv4_6
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.472 0.234567 [07] PWD admin config pwd set TRUE, auto-login TRUE
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.474 0.234567 [07] PWD admin CAN'T DETERMINE: no local network interface information
After a reboot admin access is OK.
This message greeted me on several Kiwis after SW upgrades.
/var/log/messages ends with:
...
Nov 4 23:47:11 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:00:48.802 0.234567 TIMEZONE: "PST", "America\/Los_Angeles"
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.468 0.234567 [07] PWD isLocal_if_ip: IPv4 client, but no server IPv4/IPv4_6
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.472 0.234567 [07] PWD admin config pwd set TRUE, auto-login TRUE
Nov 4 23:47:47 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:01:24.474 0.234567 [07] PWD admin CAN'T DETERMINE: no local network interface information
After a reboot admin access is OK.
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Dec 12 11:20:26 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:16:31.608 01234... UPDATE: exiting because admin update check not enabled
Dec 12 11:20:28 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:16:32.892 01234... [06] PWD isLocal_if_ip: IPv4 client, but no server IPv4/IPv4_6
Dec 12 11:20:28 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:16:32.895 01234... [06] PWD admin config pwd set FALSE, auto-login FALSE
Dec 12 11:20:28 kiwisdr kiwid: 00:16:32.897 01234... [06] PWD admin CAN'T DETERMINE: no local network interface information
What could be a problem and how to fix this? Please help.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Any other network interfaces?
Your Kiwi is set to get an ip via DHCP I assume? And using wired Ethernet?
Yes, I'm on wired Ethernet and DHCP. As requested here is ifconfig output:
root@kiwisdr:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:a0:30:ac:65:ad
inet addr:192.168.0.28 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::caa0:30ff:feac:65ad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:139188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:136141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13687539 (13.0 MiB) TX bytes:117349637 (111.9 MiB)
Interrupt:175
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:1112 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1112 (1.0 KiB)
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:a0:30:ac:65:a0
inet addr:192.168.7.2 Bcast:192.168.7.3 Mask:255.255.255.252
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
BTW I don't know what that usb0 is, as nothing is plugged in the USB port. The beagle has only the power and LAN cable connected in, and two antenna cables (a magloop and GPS) connected to the Kiwi board...
This happens because if the Kiwi can't decide what its local ip address is then it darn sure can't let you into the admin page without supplying the admin password, assuming none has been set. Otherwise how could it distinguish attempted admin connections from the outside Internet?
Common practice in similar devices. But of course you can't keep users from sharing it with the entire internet.
If I had the chance to connect to it while it was failing I probably could have seen what was going on (network issue, Kiwi bug, browser cache issue, ...) But too late for that now I suppose. Please let me know if it happens again. If it does it would really help if you can open port 8073 on your router. The Kiwi doesn't have to publicly listed, but I have to be able to connect on port 8073.
I'm UTC+13, so somewhat inconvenient for Europe.