Error installing email plugin

[Fredkup]

I'm new at this and just installed V1.8.0 Gargoyle on a TL-WR841N/ND v8. I installed 'plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl'. It shows installed, I rebooted, unplugged, but it will not show in System menu nor can I 'uninstall' it. Found same issue in another post about Adblock problems but no solution offered.

Thanks for any help, Fredkup
Memory Usage:13.2MB / 28.2MB (46.8%)

[Lantis]

If you can manually navigate to the http://192.168.1.1/email.sh site and it works then I'd be inclined to leave it and manually add it to the menu with the following commands:

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	uci set gargoyle.display.system_email_notifications="Email Notifications"
	uci set gargoyle.scripts.system_email_notifications='email.sh'
	uci set gargoyle.system.email_notifications='380'
	uci commit

[Fredkup]

Can't get to http://192.168.1.1/email.sh. It gets replaces by overview.sh so I assume it doesn't exist.

[Lantis]

Correct.
Sounds like the plugin didn't install correctly at all.

You said it shows still installed?
You'll have to do a manual uninstall which involves removing the entry in the status file at /plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/status as well as any files relating to the email plugin at /plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info/ after checking the ".list" file in that directory for any and all files relating to the plugin.
(I'm typing these directories from memory so use your best judgement when navigating to them).

A faster method would be to reflash your firmware. Depends which way you are inclined.

[Fredkup]

Thanks for your help, I just got Putty up and running and haven't used Linux for a while but I will try it the long way first and if that fails I'll re-install the firmware and post the results.

Fredkup

[Lantis]

For this kind of work i actually recommend WinSCP.
Because it's a visual based implementation navigating through the folders is super quick and easy

Whatever works best for you though! Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Fredkup]

Thank you for the info on WinSCP, it's downloading as I type. Got this from Putty last night and only found one ref to email. Not sure what all to remove so will reflash router today. One question, what is meant by Status -- half-installed?
Fredkup
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root@Gargoyle:~# cd /plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info/

root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Aug 20 15:10 msmtp-nossl.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595 Aug 20 15:10 msmtp-nossl.control
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Sep 30 18:54 msmtp-nossl.list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 145 Aug 20 15:10 msmtp-nossl.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76 Aug 20 15:10 msmtp-nossl.prerm

root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info# cat *.list
/plugin_root/etc/msmtprc
/plugin_root/usr/bin/msmtp

root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info# cd ..
root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 30 18:54 info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 388 Sep 30 18:54 status

root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg# cat status
Package: msmtp-nossl
Version: 1.6.2-1
Depends: libc
Provides:
Status: install ok half-installed
Architecture: ar71xx
Installed-Time: 1443653641
Link-Destination: root

Package: plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: libc, gargoyle, msmtp-nossl
Provides:
Status: install user half-installed
Architecture: all
Installed-Time: 1443653641
Link-Destination: root

root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg# cd info

[Lantis]

I have never seen a "half installed" status before. Very strange. And probably the reason it hasn't worked.

A fresh start might be a good idea

[Fredkup]

Ok, so I flashed with gargoyle_1.8.0-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v8-squashfs-factory.bin and re-installed "Email notifications for Gargoyle (without SSL support)" which appears to be different than "plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl".

I now have different files in "info"
root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info# ls
msmtp-nossl.conffiles
msmtp-nossl.control
msmtp-nossl.linked
msmtp-nossl.list
msmtp-nossl.postinst
msmtp-nossl.prerm
plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl.control
plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl.list
plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl.postinst
root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg/info#

but status is the same with 'half-installed'
root@Gargoyle:/plugin_root/usr/lib/opkg# cat status
Package: msmtp-nossl
Version: 1.6.2-1
Depends: libc
Provides:
Status: install ok half-installed
Architecture: ar71xx
Installed-Time: 1443878128
Link-Destination: root

Package: plugin-gargoyle-email-notifications-nossl
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: libc, gargoyle, msmtp-nossl
Provides:
Status: install user half-installed
Architecture: all
Installed-Time: 1443878128
Link-Destination: root

but there is no email.sh in any directory on the router.

Any insights/suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Fredkup

[Lantis]

At this stage I'm thinking its a flash space issue.
We've seen a few problems with this plugin but no one has failed to install it at all.