Hi,
ext Neil MacLeod wrote:
I deleted a video from the card and then it worked fine. So it seems a
bad file can stop the device booting without any hint as to what the
problem might be!
Is this a bug that is fixed in the next firmware, if not what should i
file this against?
Yes, it should.
Thanks for the clues, Michael
This tends to confirm the theory that removing SD cards can help a
device that is refusing to boot. Obviously it shouldn't be possible to
get a device into such a situation but clearly something is happening in
the boot sequence whereby a corrupt fs can prevent the device from booting.
Hopefully it's fixed in the next firmware, I don't think anyone has
posted technical details about what exactly may be happening and why SD
cards result in a boot failure.
I think the problem is that when the device mounts the MMC during
the boot process, metalayer-crawler gets inotified about that and
starts scanning the contents of the MMC.
Metalayer-crawler didn't handle possible errors from corrupted (MMC FAT)
filesystems well enough and as a result it in worst case ended up up
taking all memory and CPU in the device. This is fixed in the next
release. It should also now react properly/promptly to user removing
the MMC.
There might also have been problems with some specific video files.
What was the format of the video files which removing helped?
- Eero
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