Upgrade and dist-ugrade fails on CT

[TBone]

Hi Forum,

My CT with "Armbian_5.14_Cubietruck_Debian_jessie_4.6.2" image fails to complete apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade.

I haven't installed or removed any package, simply used the original image as it is.

It starts the process, gets the packages, unpacks, starts setting them up and hangs at compiling the new headers. I left it working a full night but found with doing nothing. No cpu or disk activity was seen.

Has anyone seen this before?

Any idea?

Thanks,

T

[Igor]

http://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-provide-boot-logs-for-inspection

 

Without logs it's hard to say but bad / low quality SD card would be my first guess.

[TBone]

Hi Igor,

Thank you for the link. I'll update the post with the link as it gets ready.

 

What "low quality SD card" means? What is the parameter that Linux counts on? Is it too slow? Endurance can't be seen by L only if the card fails. 

 

Regards,

T

[Igor]

http://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-prepare-a-sd-card

 

For system usage, random read / write, is at most important and SD Class doesn't tell that. For apt-get upgrade is essential I would say - you are getting lot's of new small files and a header compilation is done on the way. On normal (cca. 5 USD Samsung EVO) whole upgrade process takes several minutes, while on 100x slower cards ... do the math. If card is corrupted "slow" can become "never".

[TBone]

Hi Igor,

It's there http://sprunge.us/SNTU

Regards,

T

[Igor]

Everything looks o.k. but I can't tell if SD card is quality enough. There is another test:

Do a compare:

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/954-sd-card-performance/

iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2

Fastest would be to try the same on some other SD card.

[TBone]

I'm using a 16GB Samsung EVO, but I'll do the test.

[TBone]

Here's what I got.        

 

        Include fsync in write timing
        O_DIRECT feature enabled
        Auto Mode
        File size set to 102400 kB
        Record Size 4 kB
        Record Size 16 kB
        Record Size 512 kB
        Record Size 1024 kB
        Record Size 16384 kB
        Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
        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     2016     2211     6269     6275     6116      862
          102400      16     4561     5795    14194    14200    13750     3458
          102400     512     9872    11975    21845    21843    21720     9308
          102400    1024    10703    12388    22093    22085    21977     9878
          102400   16384    11659    12136    22186    22182    22141    11377

where here is reference result for the Samsung Evo 64G from the forum link, http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/954-sd-card-performance/ .

102400 4 3233 3339 7547 7557 7561 3392
102400 16 11326 12256 14628 14618 14636 12237
102400 512 21248 21333 22682 22684 22680 21402
102400 1024 21487 21640 22805 22806 22805 21688
102400 16384 21747 21756 22938 22940 22939 21798

 

Despite I have the same brand and type it looks as mine were about at 2/3 performance or even less. Hmm...

But this speed degradation doesn't proove me that it takes a whole night to upgrade the system and in the morning I can't see any progress. Even if the boot up speed is less then one minute from switching on to get a login prompt.

[Sudosudores]

Hello! i have a big problem.

I installed Armbian 5.14 (debian jessie 3.4.112, Vanilla Kernel)

The firmware is good but, when i try to upgrade the distro the system crashes.

 

i did:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

the system download all packages, unpacks them, settings up them.

 

After setting up all packages: 

...
...
...
Setting up linux-headers-sun7i (5,16) ...

...when it try to compile headers...

Compiling headers - please wait ...

the Cubietruck remains in "stasis" for hours and hours and hours.... like a loop.

 

CPU Usage is ever swings from 56% to 58%

Memory usage swings from 192 to 211 MB cyclically.

 

Absolutely no active process. No SD card activities.

The SD card is Good. the system is very rapid, aslo the booting time!

But if i try to upgrade-it, this happens everytime.

I am obliged to disconnect power supply and install the distro from scratch! 

 

I aslo tried the version of O.S. whit Legacy Kernel but.... same problem.

 

I'm very, very sorry for my bad english, please excuse me!
Please help me! 

[Igor]

This must be some other problem. Is Cubietruck under some (heavy) load during this upgrade?

I made a simple test with one of my worse SD cards.

                                                              random    random
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write
          102400       4     2730     3725     5775     4941     2410      502
          102400      16     3006     5704    10181    10325     6854     2708
          102400     512     5166     6037    16735    16586    16235     5379
          102400    1024     5175     7034    17131    17281    16883     5455
          102400   16384     6077     6491    17881    18138    18041     6621

Image was 5.14, from current download, Cubietruck, kernel 4.6.2 -> upgrading to 4.6.3

 

apt-get upgrade took exactly 9 minutes and 12 sec and was successful.

Can you login to machine while doing upgrade / compiling headers or it stop responding? 

 

Edit:

 

This is what's done after headers install:

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.2-sunxi; echo "Compiling headers - please wait ..."; make -s scripts >/dev/null 2>&1
exit 0 

Try execute it manually, without -s, and observe what's happening.

[Sudosudores]

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.2-sunxi; echo "Compiling headers - please wait ..."; make -s scripts >/dev/null 2>&1
exit 0 

Try execute it manually, without -s, and observe what's happening.

 Hello dear!

Excuse me but i'm noob.

 

The machine remain usable during the "stasis".

 

I write this in the terminal? 

make scripts >/dev/null 2>&1 exit 0 

[Sudosudores]

I HAVE AN IDEA!

 

If you want, i can send you the image of my SD card to run-it in your CT!  Ok man?

[Sudosudores]

IT WORKS!!!! DAMN IT WORKS!!!!!!!! I HAVE SUCCESFULLY UPGRADED ALL PACKET IN LESS OF 5 MINUTE!!!

 

i have no idea why first was not working, but now as worked! I have upraded via remote terminal (ssh and Putty on windows)