Nova 227 pBS11003: web GUI broken, SNMP and LTE service down — firmware recovery advice?

Hello Baicells community,

I am trying to recover a Nova 227 LTE eNodeB (hardware module pBS11003, revision A, 2300–2400 MHz) running BaiBS_RTS_3.7.11.8. It uses a remote EPC. I do not have access to a Baicells OMC.

The local web GUI loads an unstyled login page and cannot complete login. I tested both HTTP and HTTPS in different Chromium browsers. The lighttpd server responds with HTTP 200 for the CSS and JS files, and their contents look like real CSS/JS, but it sends conflicting Content-Type headers. For example, a CSS file is returned with both “Content-Type: text/css; charset=utf-8” and “Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8”, together with “X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff”. JS files similarly receive both application/javascript and text/html. The browser reports errors such as “$ is not defined”, “MIBContainer is not defined”, and “doLogin is not defined”. This appears to explain the broken web GUI, but I have not established what adds the extra Content-Type header.

SSH on the device’s configured port still works with the admin account. I can enter enable mode (CELL#), run “show software version”, “show equipment”, and “show listenning port”, but “ls” and “cat /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf” return “You are not permited to access file system”. “show syslog last-line 60” returns “Can not have required syslog!”. The CLI help lists “upgrade img URL” for an image accessible over HTTP(S)/FTP.

After I rebooted the eNodeB, the private LTE network also stopped working. SNMP is no longer responding; the output of “show listenning port” did not show UDP 161. HTTP/HTTPS and SSH are listening. I do not yet know whether the LTE failure is due to the eNodeB, its link to the remote EPC, or another configuration/service issue. I have several CellConfig backups, but each archive contains only config/mib-home-fap.nv, not a firmware image.

Could you advise on:

  1. The supported diagnostic commands for cell status, S1/MME connectivity, SNMP, and the web server on RTS 3.7.11.8, given the filesystem permission denial?
  2. How to correct the duplicate Content-Type response headers, or whether a firmware reinstall is the supported repair?
  3. An official, stable RTS .IMG compatible with Nova 227 pBS11003 and a remote EPC, including the download location and checksum? Should we remain on 3.7.11.8, update, or roll back?
  4. The supported recovery procedure via “upgrade img URL”, including configuration preservation and what to do if image validation or upgrade fails? Is rollback possible over SSH without OMC access?

I can provide more non-sensitive diagnostics if needed. Thank you.

Hello,

I’ve made a small chrome extension to fix that :

BR