2 hotspots failed after upgrade to 4.1.2

[DJ5UW]

@Andy
Did you get my PM yesterday?
I have prepared two 4.1.1 SD Cards for you to test here via remote
The effect is reproducable, 4.1.1 runs fine, after upgrade to 4.1.2 boom, the hotspot and the display are dead.

Uli

[W4BPP]

Do you see now why I was as you put it "splitting hairs" on the conclusion that it was the 4.1.2 upgrade that killed it?

honestly no. as reproduced, running the upgrade process from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 broke hotspots...

regardless i'm glad to have in some way helped here. hopefully save a few people from frustration. glad the other posters had better and more useful information to provide to get to the bottom of it.

[W4BPP]

The error was in the dashboard version 20200526.

Dashboards get updated automatically whenever there is a new version by a nightly script or when a user runs sudo pistar-update.

The dashboard version 20200526 broke hotspots, and only if users went in and fiddled around with that dropdown on that specific version of the dashboard.

again i disagree. my post was may 25th, and my dashboard as outlined in that post was may 24th, the other posters with issues referred to issues prior to may 24th.

and there was no "fiddling" with a dropdown. update, upgrade, reboot, failure.

[DJ5UW]

@Andy
Did you get my PM yesterday?
I have prepared two 4.1.1 SD Cards for you to test here via remote
The effect is reproducable, 4.1.1 runs fine, after upgrade to 4.1.2 boom, the hotspot and the display are dead.

The issue has been identified and solved a few posts back.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2753&start=30#p13554

Just run "sudo pi-star-update" and fiddle around with the display settings and it should repair your broken hotspots.

It was a simple coding error in the dashboard that stemmed from this issue report.
https://github.com/AndyTaylorTweet/Pi-S ... issues/106

No, unfortunately this did not solve the problem
1. The command sudo pi-star-update is unknown in the ssh shell
2. After upgrade to 4.1.2 everything seems to be fine, after a reboot, the hotspot is as dead as before (screen and hotspot)

[DJ5UW]

No, unfortunately this did not solve the problem
1. The command sudo pi-star-update is unknown in the ssh shell

sudo pistar-update

Thanks for the hint, seems to work now.