chrisd Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hi, I just upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4 using apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Unfortunately the device is headless and I don't have a monitor. I cannot login over SSH any more, I get asked for password, but after entering the connection timeouts. When I mount the SD-Card on my laptop to find out what's going on I found a ~350MB /var/log/kern.log, repeating only these lines: ... Oct 9 20:38:26 localhost kernel: [ 42.777207] axp20x 0-0034: uevent Oct 9 20:38:26 localhost kernel: [ 42.778709] axp20x 0-0034: uevent Oct 9 20:38:26 localhost kernel: [ 42.779509] axp20x 0-0034: uevent ... This is exactly what I updated: Start-Date: 2015-10-09 20:19:08 Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade Upgrade: syncthing:armhf (0.11.25, 0.11.26), linux-image-next-sunxi:armhf (4.3, 4.4), linux-headers-next-sunxi:armhf (4.3, 4.4), linux-dtb-next-sunxi:armhf (4.3, 4.4), linux-jessie-root-next-bananapi:armhf (4.3, 4.4), linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi:armhf (4.3, 4.4) End-Date: 2015-10-09 20:22:45 What can I do to get the BananaPi starting again? Thanks, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcat_paris Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 unsure if it can help... as you cannot login Igor quite forgot about "u-boot" my "labomo-r1" card needed the package "linux-u-boot-lamobo-r1-next" and btw, I don't have "syncthing" package (I am running Armbian vanilla Ubuntu 14.04) so my package list is gr@bpi:~$ dpkg -l "*next*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============================================-============================-============================-================================================================================================== ii linux-dtb-next-sunxi 4.4 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.2.2-sunxi ii linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 4.4 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 4.2.2-sunxi ii linux-headers-next-sunxi 4.4 armhf Linux kernel headers for 4.2.2-sunxi on armhf ii linux-image-next-sunxi 4.4 armhf Linux kernel, version 4.2.2-sunxi ii linux-trusty-root-next-lamobo-r1 4.4 armhf Various root file system tweaks for ARM boards ii linux-u-boot-lamobo-r1-next 4.4 armhf Uboot loader 2015.07. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisd Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 syncthing is unrelated, see https://syncthing.net/ I don't think it has a problem with booting, I comes up (I can ping) and also SSH and get a password authentication. Afterwards the SSH connection timeouts, as it is logging into 3 files at the same time, probably at maximum speed since it gets warm: /var/log/syslog, /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/debug. All 3 files are roughly 300MB each, then I unplugged it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Bug was nailed down but packages are not updated yet I am working on some other bugs and doing testings @ this moment. Can't say when things will be done. I hope in a day or two. A possible fix is a manual install of v4.3, I add a section "How to unbrick a system" to documentation. Follow that and you will be fine. You usually don't need to change u-boot so there is no tip for changing that. I'll ad that too ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcat_paris Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 ok, so your banana-pi seems to boot, so I am wrong. Igor replied so it seems there is something wrong with the Armbian 4.4 for you So? save your sdcard reinstall the distrib from scratch... alternate : if you can retrieve the 4.3 armbian packages (linux-{dtb,firmware,headers,image,u-boot}-next-sunxi extract the files from .deb files and reapply them on the sdcard filesystem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 so it seems there is something wrong with the Armbian 4.4 for you https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/commit/58dee9986c0d9e76d8b3e9dc840f51d0c21b4bad When this is done, everything is normal. With systemd there are more problems and you can't login, on others can and it's just annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisd Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 Today I wanted to reinstall, just saw that there is 4.5 available. Is this problem fixed in 4.5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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