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/etc/config/luci seems to be corrupt, unable to find section 'main'

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OpenWrt 18.06.1 on a WRT3200ACM
Sometimes, when I try to access the main page on the router, I get this error:

/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:230: /etc/config/luci seems to be corrupt, unable to find section 'main'
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:230: in function 'dispatch'
	/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:127: in function </usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:126>

However, “/etc/config/luci” looks fine, and just rebooting the device fixes the issue.
When this happens, all other functionality on the router works fine., but f I log into the router and execute “logread -l 100”, all I can see is this single line:

Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970 kern.emerg kernel:

A couple of minutes later, the logs fill again with normal messages, but luci never recovers.
Restarting “uhttpd” does not fix the issue.

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:13 (2 by maintainers)

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token0commented, Apr 28, 2019

service rpcd restart works for me

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JocelynDelalandecommented, Apr 10, 2020

I had the same error, after an upgrade from some LEDE version (from 2017 IIRC) to OpenWRT 18.06.08. I choosen to keep settings while upgrading, that was apparently a mistake.

To fix it, I did :