Dave Pigott <[email protected]> writes:

> 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

+1 from me too.

Cheers,
mwh

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