For the moment, I scavenged another SD card from a working ROACH, which
seems to have fixed the issue. I'd say that that FS corruption is a
pretty good bet. I'll try this out tomorrow, when I get the chance.
Thank you!
--Ryan
On 09/10/2012 05:53 PM, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote:
Our sys admin was able to get our system back up to working condition
with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
sync
echo
echo "THIS WILL REMOUNT, FSCK, AND REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER, YOU HAVE 5s
TO CTRL+C"
echo
sleep 6
sync;sync
mount -n -o remount,ro / || exit 1
fsck /dev/mmcblock1
echo
echo "REBOOTING IN 5s"
sleep 6
reboot
If this doesn't work let me know. We operate mobile, so unfriendly
shutdowns happen and we wanted to get back up and running in the
field. There may be a better way of doing this - so I would love
feedback from the community as well!
--Laura
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, G Jones <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I had some luck solving this problem by putting the SD card in another
machine and using fsck.ext2 on it to fix the corrupt FS. My experience
is the SD cards are overly susceptible to this sort of FS corruption.
I've had much better luck netbooting (once getting through the
annoying initial hurdle of getting everything set up).
Glenn
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Louis P. Dartez
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello Ryan,
>
> This happened to me as well recently with a new ROACH
board. I
> noticed that the file '/etc/network/run/ifstate' was corrupted.
When I used
> the command 'ls -alh' all I got was question marks in each
field. I was
> unable to rm or mv the file, or even execute 'touch ifstate'.
Another ROACH
> board that I received in the same shipment worked right out of
the box. I
> was going to try completely formatting the troublesome SD card
and copying
> everything on the working SD onto it. I have not tried this yet,
> though...but I think it should work.
>
> -Louis P. Dartez
>
> Arecibo Remote Command Center Scholar
> Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy Researcher
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Texas at Brownsville
>
> On 09/10/2012 06:42 PM, Ryan Monroe wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We recently purchased two ROACH boards from Digicom and we seem
to be
> experiencing a bit of an issue. Upon trying to boot to the SD
card on
> either, several processes don't come up, complaining of "Stale
NFS handle".
> If I configure eth0, I can start it that once but it will not
initialize by
> default. Attached is a copy of a dump from minicom via serial.
>
> The only command I am using in uboot is mmcboot. In addition,
I'm using the
> SD cards as they arrived (which seems to have the correct
> filesystem/format). Should I be doing something else in
addition to mount
> the SD card?
>
> Finally, I saw a similar thread in the archive (here).
>
> Any advice? Thank you very much!
>
> --Ryan
>
>
