[SOLVED] TFTP error: "Only absolute filenames allowed"

Workaround

I’m not sure what was going wrong with what I was doing initially, but, thanks to @tapdattl, as suggested, I disabled the tftp server system service, and, instead, started it with the following command:

<span style="color:#323232;">sudo in.tftpd -L /srv/tftp --verbose --permissive -s
</span>

and it then flashed successfully.

Original Post

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/11735447

I’m trying to flash firmware to a router (Archer C7) using TFTP, but, when the router makes the request for the firmware file over TFTP, the TFTP server responds with the following error

<span style="color:#323232;">Error code: Access violation (2)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Error message: Only absolute filenames allowed
</span>

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This is the config for tftpd in /etc/conf.d/tftpd:

<span style="color:#323232;">TFTP_OPTIONS="-s"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TFTP_ADDRESS="192.168.0.66:69"
</span>

I have the firmware file in /srv/tftp, and both the firmware file, and /srv/tftp have chmod 777 permissions.

The TFTP server is running on Archlinux, and is installed as tftp-hpa from the arch repos.

If I test as a client, I can get it to download if I specify the full (absolute) path to the file /srv/tftp/filename, so it seems that the config isn’t pointing the server to /srv/tftp as the relative path… How would I go about fixing that?