DoXer Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Hi, I'm new with Armbian, have some experience with Raspberry. I have succesfully installed it on a bananaPi. uname -a Linux bananapipro 4.4.3-sunxi #19 SMP Tue Mar 1 21:34:52 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux Then I have installed Logitechmediaserver with dpkg -i logitech....deb It runs well, but after a reboot the installation is not there anymore. /var/lib is default, the init.d-script is also not there. Any hints? Edit: I have the message for 19 updates, so I made apt-get update After reboot, all updates are gone and I get the message for the 19 updates again. Regards DoXer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 That indicates some troubles with the SD media. Can you try to use another card? Can you provide a full boot log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoXer Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Indeed there are some troubles with the SD media. I replaced it, installed ARMBIAN new (with Win32 Disk Imager) and now all runs well. Thanx. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 That indicates some troubles with the SD media. Can you try to use another card? Can you provide a full boot log? BTW: What about including the f3 package to the list of default packages and introducing 'armbianmonitor -c' (check card)? Would be a bit tricky since we can not allow f3write filling the whole card [1] (might require patching f3write/f3read to be able to specify the size of the test files and adjust this to 100MB instead) and we're not able to test the whole card in this mode but it will rule out 99% of the 'Armbian is unreliable' complaints that are in fact related to faulty SD cards. Seeing the reported sequential write speeds from f3write can also be interesting/frustrating/enlightening (since there exist many cards that show good performance on 75% of the capacity and transfer speeds drop down to a few KB/s on the rest of the capacity) and if we add/install also the iozone3 package and fire up the random I/O tests mentioned here we could provide a simple tool to nail many of the problems related to 'bad storage' down. BTW: 'please provide full boot log' can be translated to recommend 'sudo armbianmonitor -b', reboot, 'sudo armbianmonitor -u' now [1] f3 manual page: F3(1) test real flash memory capacity F3(1) NAME f3write, f3read - test real flash memory capacity SYNOPSIS f3write [--start-at=NUM] [--end-at=NUM] <PATH> f3read [--start-at=NUM] [--end-at=NUM] <PATH> DESCRIPTION F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive). It writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you haven't been sold a card with a smaller capacity than stated. When writing to flash drive, f3write fills the filesystem with 1GB files named N.h2w, where N is a number (i.e. /[0-9]+/). WARNING: all data on the tested disk might be lost! OPTIONS --start-at=NUM Initial number of file names. Default value is 1. --end-at=NUM Final number of file names. Default value is "infinity". EXAMPLE To write over a flash drive mounted at /media/TEST: $ f3write /media/TEST To read this flash drive: $ f3read /media/TEST AUTHOR F3 was written by Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>. This manual page was first written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@erib- erto.pro.br>. F3 5.0 December 2014 F3(1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Checking SD cards with f3 and if we get close top 99% + statement: "Low quality SD card can lead to system failures", than this is done sudo armbianmonitor -b', reboot, 'sudo armbianmonitor -u Working nice but it's n/a on older boards ... yet. Need to pack things together and push to repository. And yes, much better to get wanted info this way. Can't be more simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Checking SD cards with f3 and if we get close top 99% + statement: "Low quality SD card can lead to system failures", than this is done I've just checked that if we implement 'armbianmonitor -c' in a way we ensure it's not called as root or via sudo we can simply use f3write since we use the default 5% reserved space (see here for example -- and this is something we should consider when doing the fs resize: Using 'tune2fs -m 2' if the card is larger than 15GiB and reducing that to maybe even 1% when larger than 30GiB?) I'll test that over the weekend and might push the '-c' functionality as PR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Here we go. I chose to be able to specify a path so disk checking can also be used with external thumb drives or SD cards in card readers and so on. Looks then like this (this is the SD card where the system is residing on): tk@orangepipc:~$ armbianmonitor -c /home/tk Now starting to write to the card, please be patient, this might take a very long time Free space: 5.21 GB Creating file 1.h2w ... OK! Creating file 2.h2w ... OK! Creating file 3.h2w ... OK! Creating file 4.h2w ... OK! Creating file 5.h2w ... OK! Free space: 325.22 MB Average writing speed: 14.82 MB/s Now verifying the written data: SECTORS ok/corrupted/changed/overwritten Validating file 1.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 2.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 3.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 4.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 5.h2w ... 1880680/ 0/ 0/ 0 Data OK: 4.90 GB (10269288 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Corrupted: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Slightly changed: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Overwritten: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average reading speed: 21.31 MB/s Starting iozone tests: Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O Version $Revision: 3.429 $ Compiled for 32 bit mode. Build: linux Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR, Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner, Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone, Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root, Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer, Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa. Run began: Fri Mar 18 17:01:12 2016 Include fsync in write timing O_DIRECT feature enabled Auto Mode File size set to 102400 kB Record Size 4 kB Record Size 512 kB Record Size 16384 kB Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 512k -r 16M -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 /home/tk/cardtest.J0kMqR Output is in kBytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. random random bkwd record stride kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread 102400 4 2867 3022 8163 8171 8145 1243 102400 512 19708 18935 21583 21593 21528 3033 102400 16384 19008 20369 22915 22915 22910 20343 iozone test complete. The results from testing /dev/mmcblk0p1 (ext4): Data OK: 4.90 GB (10269288 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average writing speed: 14.82 MB/s Average reading speed: 21.31 MB/s random random reclen write rewrite read reread read write 4 2867 3022 8163 8171 8145 1243 512 19708 18935 21583 21593 21528 3033 16384 19008 20369 22915 22915 22910 20343 Health summary: OK Performance summary: Sequential reading speed: 21.31 MB/s 4K random reading speed: 8145 KB/s Sequential writing speed: 14.82 MB/s 4K random writing speed: 1243 KB/s To interpret the results above correctly or search for alternatives please refer to http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/and also http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-microsd-card/ Now the test is running on a card that is known to be faulty and then afterwards I will let it run on an ultra slow card that might have also minor errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Now test with faulty SD card: tk@orangepipc:~$ armbianmonitor -c /mnt/faulty-card WARNING: It seems you're not testing the SD card but instead /dev/sda1 (ext4) Now starting to write to the card, please be patient, this might take a very long time Free space: 3.53 GB Creating file 1.h2w ... OK! Creating file 2.h2w ... OK! Creating file 3.h2w ... OK! Creating file 4.h2w ... OK! Free space: 188.71 MB Average writing speed: 2.08 MB/s Now verifying the written data: SECTORS ok/corrupted/changed/overwritten Validating file 1.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 2.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0 Validating file 3.h2w ... 1337312/ 0/ 0/ 0 - NOT fully read due to "Input/output error" Validating file 4.h2w ... 0/ 0/ 0/ 0 - NOT fully read due to "Input/output error" Data OK: 2.64 GB (5531616 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Corrupted: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Slightly changed: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Overwritten: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) WARNING: Not all data was read due to I/O error(s) Average reading speed: 11.64 MB/s Test stopped, read-only filesystem [13855.152371] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 6337504 [13855.156244] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 6337744 [13855.159708] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 6337984 [13855.165025] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 6338016 [13856.349531] EXT4-fs (sda1): previous I/O error to superblock detected And now a pretty old 512MB card, slow as hell when it's about random I/O, especially small block sizes and this is what would make you crazy if you put a Linux image on this card tk@orangepipc:~$ armbianmonitor -c /mnt/slow-card/ WARNING: It seems you're not testing the SD card but instead /dev/sdb1 (vfat) fallocate: fallocate failed: Operation not supported Now starting to write to the card, please be patient, this might take a very long time Free space: 488.10 MB Creating file 1.h2w ... OK! Free space: 0.00 Byte Average writing speed: 3.11 MB/s Now verifying the written data: SECTORS ok/corrupted/changed/overwritten Validating file 1.h2w ... 999632/ 0/ 0/ 0 Data OK: 488.10 MB (999632 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Corrupted: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Slightly changed: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Overwritten: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average reading speed: 10.03 MB/s Starting iozone tests: Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O Version $Revision: 3.429 $ Compiled for 32 bit mode. Build: linux Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR, Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner, Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Dave Boone, Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root, Fabrice Bacchella, Zhenghua Xue, Qin Li, Darren Sawyer, Vangel Bojaxhi, Ben England, Vikentsi Lapa. Run began: Fri Mar 18 18:12:44 2016 Include fsync in write timing O_DIRECT feature enabled Auto Mode File size set to 102400 kB Record Size 4 kB Record Size 512 kB Record Size 16384 kB Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 512k -r 16M -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 /mnt/slow-card//cardtest.gXxhVa Output is in kBytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. random random bkwd record stride kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread 102400 4 1727 1724 4561 4560 4554 58 102400 512 4590 4785 10246 10180 10240 2560 102400 16384 4719 4946 10405 10335 10407 4839 iozone test complete. The results from testing /dev/sdb1 (vfat): Data OK: 488.10 MB (999632 sectors) Data LOST: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors) Average writing speed: 3.11 MB/s Average reading speed: 10.03 MB/s random random reclen write rewrite read reread read write 4 1727 1724 4561 4560 4554 58 512 4590 4785 10246 10180 10240 2560 16384 4719 4946 10405 10335 10407 4839 Health summary: OK Performance summary: Sequential reading speed: 10.03 MB/s 4K random reading speed: 4554 KB/s Sequential writing speed: 3.11 MB/s (too low) 4K random writing speed: 58 KB/s (too low) To interpret the results above correctly or search for alternatives please refer to http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/and also http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-microsd-card/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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