Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3.1 rv1206 (compatibility version 5)

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

Hi,

> In such a meshbox, I installed OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09.
> In order to do that, I downloaded the OpenWRT trunk and all the
> available packages from the OpenWRT repository.
> Then, I built the image selecting all the interesting packages; among
> these packages, in the network section,
> I selected batmand (B.A.T.M.A.N. 3 routing daemon).
> By the way, I did not compile batman by myself but it was directly
> integrated in the Kamikaze image.

I downloaded the OpenWRT trunk and compiled the i386 image before loading it 
into a qemu environment. I can confirm that batman does nothing if started 
without a debug level. It seems the main thread is not doing anything. 
Interestingly, if I compile & run batman on my debian machine it runs without 
problems. I guess OpenWRT uses some different libs / compile time options / etc 
that provoke that problem.

As a short term workaround I suggest you start batman with a debug level and 
redirect the output:
batmand -d 3 wlan0 > /dev/null 2>&1

I will try to debug this during the coming days but can't promise anything as 
I'm looking for the needle in the haystack.

Regards,
Marek