On 15 Nov 2012, at 13:08, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:20:11PM +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: >> Dave Pigott <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Just the one since Saturday: >>>>> >>>>> ---------------- >>>>> snowball06 >>>>> ---------------- >>>>> http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435 >>>>> >>>>> As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing >>>>> retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I >>>>> went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, >>>>> which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean >>>>> boot. >>>> >>>> What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default? >>> >>> Clean boot = hard reset >>> >>> Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset >>> rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more >>> likely to be consistent. >> >> The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that >> powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might >> be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master >> rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens. >> >> With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway. > > What about first sending a "halt" command to make sure everything is > flushed properly, and only after that power cycling the board? +1 - ideal solution Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-validation mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation
