**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Jul 26 02:59:58 2012 Jul 26 11:55:44 ogra_: now tried the netboot installer several times an two brand new 16g sd cards. never finished, always failed during the "select and install software" step. Jul 26 11:56:38 weird, worked for three people during the past two days Jul 26 11:56:54 anything in dmesg or syslog ? Jul 26 11:57:07 ogra_: no idea. will try the preinstalled server image now Jul 26 11:57:16 (syslog is on tty4 if you do a console install, on serial you need to check the file) Jul 26 11:57:25 ogra_: i can look on one of the two cards in a few moment Jul 26 11:57:27 there is no preinstalled server image anymore Jul 26 11:57:28 its dead Jul 26 11:57:38 only a normal daily server Jul 26 11:58:07 ogra_: i've got a copy of the 12.04 omap4hf already here. Jul 26 11:58:32 (all arm images are now identical to their x86 pendants, desktop -> live, server -> alternate with squashfs, netboot -> well, netboot) Jul 26 11:59:00 if you downloaded anything called preinstalled thats several weeks old and 99% positively uninstallable Jul 26 11:59:39 ogra_: strange, my ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+omap4.img.gz here is the only thing that ever worked. Jul 26 11:59:52 oh, 12.04 ... sorry Jul 26 12:00:58 ok, got one of the cards with failed netboot ready now. Jul 26 12:01:11 the file in use was boot.img-serial.gz Jul 26 12:01:29 and you zcat'ed it as root to the SD Jul 26 12:01:33 ? Jul 26 12:01:36 sure. Jul 26 12:03:22 ogra_: you meant checkout the second partition on the sd card and there /var/log, right? Jul 26 12:03:40 looking at http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/precise/main/installer-armhf/current/images/omap4/netboot/ the serial image definitely has a partition Jul 26 12:04:19 i really have no idea whats broken. it never finished the installer successfully. Jul 26 12:04:56 hm, now preinstalled also fails with /dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Jul 26 12:05:04 something is really going on here. Jul 26 12:05:22 booting ... Jul 26 12:06:20 *sigh* now giving today's boot.img_serial.gz one more try. Jul 26 12:06:44 logged in as root, i do "zcat boot.img-serial.gz > /dev/sdd", then sync Jul 26 12:06:49 todays should definitely work Jul 26 12:07:23 i'm starting to believe in bad karma, broken feng shui or black magic. Jul 26 12:07:31 heh, probably Jul 26 12:08:10 hmm, my install doesnt seem to progress Jul 26 12:08:23 and i have a suspicion ... Jul 26 12:08:36 booted fine, language and locale select fine, network config fine. Jul 26 12:08:39 oh, it moved now Jul 26 12:08:52 just took a while to do whatever it did Jul 26 12:08:56 archive setup fine Jul 26 12:09:13 "Loading additiona componnents" now Jul 26 12:10:46 user setup done Jul 26 12:11:36 partitioning done (picked guided for the usb key) Jul 26 12:13:15 user setup done, no home encryption Jul 26 12:13:28 same here Jul 26 12:13:38 i largely just go with the defaults Jul 26 12:13:45 same here. Jul 26 12:13:50 its installing the base system now Jul 26 12:13:56 guided partitioning, using MMC/SD card #1 (mmcblk0) - 16.1 GB SD SDC Jul 26 12:14:09 oh, not sure that will work, good luck :) Jul 26 12:14:40 bug 1025420 Jul 26 12:14:42 Launchpad bug 1025420 in ubiquity "AssertionError: Returned to partman/choose_partition with nothing to do" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1025420 Jul 26 12:14:54 though thats a quantal desktop install Jul 26 12:15:02 but they both use the same backends Jul 26 12:15:26 he picked a pre-created partition on a live image though Jul 26 12:23:07 seems like it is stuck doing mkfs.ext4 on mmcblk0p2 Jul 26 12:26:46 give it some time ... big slow media etc Jul 26 12:27:03 too much time already. Jul 26 12:27:11 sd led also shows no activity. Jul 26 12:27:20 ah Jul 26 12:27:31 my LEDs are both solid green here Jul 26 12:27:48 i dont think we have the modules in d-i to use them Jul 26 12:29:19 just to be sure, redownloaded qq's boot.img-serial.gz now and starting over again. Jul 26 12:29:38 well, installing to mmc will likely have the same issue there Jul 26 12:29:58 and i bet if you check the logs you would see a similar error as in the bug Jul 26 12:36:50 now its "installing the base system" Jul 26 12:37:01 to MMC ? Jul 26 12:37:06 yep Jul 26 12:37:11 intresting Jul 26 12:37:28 nope, installing. Jul 26 12:37:32 did you keep the existing partition intact ? Jul 26 12:37:36 nope. Jul 26 12:37:37 heh Jul 26 12:37:52 oh, but you created a vfat in the beginning of the SD i hope Jul 26 12:38:01 it wont do that automatically Jul 26 12:38:17 it creates an ext2 in the beginning. Jul 26 12:38:29 thats /boot Jul 26 12:38:33 doesnt help Jul 26 12:38:39 you need a vaft to boot from Jul 26 12:38:54 ah yes, now we're getting closer. Jul 26 12:39:15 if you dont have that partiton flash-kernel-installer will fall over Jul 26 12:39:30 it tries to mount -t vfat i think Jul 26 12:39:34 LetoThe2nd: I have seen the unexpected inconsistency message every second boot on my tf201, no idea whats causing it but I wonder if there is something going on (booting with single and fscking the volume fixes it) Jul 26 12:39:46 so basically the automagic partitioning does not work, and one needs to take care that a vfat partition with, say 64mb or such is in place, right? Jul 26 12:40:18 automagic partition only works if you install to USB and leave the SD as "boot floppy/fake NAND" Jul 26 12:40:19 lilstevie: there's more going on here. :( Jul 26 12:40:35 hm :/ Jul 26 12:40:45 if you want a different setup you need to know what you are doing Jul 26 12:40:48 ogra_: ok. will do that next then. Jul 26 12:41:09 the automatic creation of /boot is plainly silly Jul 26 12:41:17 hey i'ma tyrant god emperor. i do not have to know what to do. i have minions for that! *SCNR* Jul 26 12:41:29 but the partman code is scary .. i need to be in the right mood to get at it :P Jul 26 12:41:49 massively drunk? Jul 26 12:42:11 for three days ... yeah Jul 26 12:43:00 minimum Jul 26 12:44:45 do you think being drunk is enough? Jul 26 12:45:10 resizing the terminal during serial netboot install is funny, talking ncurses-interface layout wise. := Jul 26 12:45:13 after three days being drunk i dont think anything ;) Jul 26 12:45:21 thats the point ;) Jul 26 12:45:28 might need some form of hallucinogen to help there Jul 26 12:45:34 LetoThe2nd, screen or minicom ? Jul 26 12:45:51 lilstevie: please, not engelbert humperdinck records again! Jul 26 12:45:57 ogra_: screen Jul 26 12:46:40 LetoThe2nd: lol Jul 26 12:47:18 lilstevie: "having a bad trip" Jul 26 12:47:33 lol Jul 26 14:58:17 ogra_: ok, now i've proceeded through the complete netinstaller and kept the first fat partition intact (use largest contiguous space). still does not boot - where to go hinting in the logs? Jul 26 15:00:06 pastebin it somewhere (sudo apt-get install pastebinit;; pastebinit /var/log/installer/syslog ;)) Jul 26 15:00:51 http://paste.ubuntu.com/1112040/ Jul 26 15:01:58 hmm, looks all good Jul 26 15:02:07 how does it not boot ? Jul 26 15:02:13 what are the symptoms ? Jul 26 15:02:25 power on -> led2 solid. Jul 26 15:02:35 notihing on serial ? Jul 26 15:02:41 exactly that Jul 26 15:02:57 thats pretty strange, MLO and u-boot wouldnt have changed Jul 26 15:02:57 check the vfat partition? Jul 26 15:03:03 yes Jul 26 15:03:31 http://paste.ubuntu.com/1112047/ Jul 26 15:03:33 the installer only updates boot.scr, kernel and initrd Jul 26 15:04:01 right, the timestamps agree Jul 26 15:04:23 since MLO wasnt changed you should definitely at least see MLO messages on serial Jul 26 15:04:55 negative. Jul 26 15:05:26 http://paste.ubuntu.com/1112052/ Jul 26 15:06:39 hmm Jul 26 15:06:52 * ogra_ is a bit clueless what to say Jul 26 15:07:14 from a binary POV nothing should have changed for MLO Jul 26 15:07:36 its a fat, files dont move around or anything Jul 26 15:08:19 i told ya. bad karma, or broken feng shui. Jul 26 15:09:02 boot.img-serial1 * 1 61440 30720 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Jul 26 15:09:05 just retried including starting the terminal over again. led2 solid, nothing else. Jul 26 15:09:09 hmm, the data has definitely changed Jul 26 15:10:21 i suspect parted rewrites the partition table Jul 26 15:10:33 since you created one Jul 26 15:11:06 ok, so the guess would be - what? Jul 26 15:11:12 oyu should probably pre-create one and select to not format it in the partitioner ... then it shouldnt touch the part. table Jul 26 15:11:23 as a workaround Jul 26 15:11:31 and the bug would be against partman i guess Jul 26 15:11:57 the fat partition? it basically *should* not get touched, as i nowhere told the installer to do so. Jul 26 15:12:17 no, not the partition, the partition table Jul 26 15:12:47 ogra_: so zcat to sd, manually partition in the pc, then start all over? Jul 26 15:12:49 compare my fdisk output with yours for the vfat partition Jul 26 15:13:01 right Jul 26 15:13:12 my guess would be that this works Jul 26 15:13:38 seems the rom doesnt get along with the differently computed partition table Jul 26 15:13:48 or some such Jul 26 15:14:13 the image is originally created by fdisk ... while the installer uses partman Jul 26 15:14:32 ok, lets see. Jul 26 15:14:32 (which handles CHS differently for example) Jul 26 15:16:40 ok, when repartitioning with gparted after zcat'ing boots. Jul 26 15:21:45 my install to USB finished properly btw Jul 26 16:06:14 ogra_: seems to boot now. Jul 26 16:06:22 \o/ Jul 26 16:53:32 LetoThe2nd, awesome ! Jul 26 17:21:21 marvin24, did you commit yesterday's resume problem fix? Jul 26 17:22:10 marvin24, I just checked your new branch compared to what we have in ubuntu, quite a diff. You seem to have added a lot of commits since Jun 8 when the previous package got branched off Jul 26 17:22:43 did you add rt2000 driver fixes too besides strictly ac100 stuff? I want to make sure I am not mishandling git log here Jul 26 17:22:44 :) Jul 26 18:12:09 janimo: use the l4t-r15-ac100 branch Jul 26 18:12:20 and yes, I updated some drivers we use Jul 26 18:12:34 rt2x00 and cleancache Jul 26 18:13:23 marvin24, ok. thanks, I'll use that Jul 26 18:13:34 too bad gitorious is so slow Jul 26 18:13:39 and sometimes disconnects Jul 26 18:15:06 yes, that's the "non-commercial" way ;-) Jul 26 18:16:29 janimo: I'm thinking about uboot ... Jul 26 18:16:56 what is the prefered way to boot the kernel (where to store, initrd, boot.scr?) Jul 26 18:17:19 preferred way with uboot? Jul 26 18:17:46 the cases I know have a separate partition for uboot conffiles and kernel+initrd Jul 26 18:20:16 I wonder if we should use the boot partitions for this Jul 26 18:20:45 if it works I don't see why not. Jul 26 18:20:53 it can be restored easily Jul 26 18:21:19 and what about an efi partition table? Jul 26 18:21:22 We usually store the kernel and initrd on the same flash/partition as u-boot.bin, but that's only for historical reasons, because u-boot used to suck so terribly hard at loading from ext* filesystems. Jul 26 18:21:39 There's really no reason we should continue that brain damage, IMO. Jul 26 18:21:57 I think it still only understands ext2 Jul 26 18:22:14 or ext4 without some features I guess Jul 26 18:22:29 For read-only, it's good enough on ext4, afaik. Jul 26 18:22:47 As for efi, I don't think u-boot speaks gpt at all yet. Jul 26 18:23:04 But that's fine if you load u-boot and the kernel externally, and let the kernel sort out partitions. Jul 26 18:23:28 I tried loading the kernel from my ext4 partition, but failed Jul 26 18:23:46 it could only see the root fs, but /boot gave garbage Jul 26 18:23:58 gpt is supported AFAIK Jul 26 18:24:14 chromeos also uses it and likely all new devices also Jul 26 18:24:24 * marvin24 goes and checks Jul 26 18:25:50 seems it should work as long as the storage is smaller than 2 TB ... Jul 26 19:30:24 marvin24, use vfat Jul 26 19:31:12 ogra_: never ... Jul 26 19:31:18 ext2 is fine I think Jul 26 19:31:28 for internal mmc Jul 26 19:31:39 vfat is the most stable filesystem in u-boot, as sad as it sounds ... Jul 26 19:31:52 even read only ext2 doesn't work? Jul 26 19:31:59 zzz Jul 26 19:32:08 but ext2 is usually ok too, i have seen it failing on arches where iot was supposed to work though Jul 26 19:32:39 (some mervell ones, but they used their own u-boot fork i think) Jul 26 19:32:45 *marvell Jul 26 19:46:20 yeah, we can use mainline :-) Jul 26 21:21:00 marvin24, I rebased on your new branch and want to check with you on the config changes introduced as I see it here Jul 26 21:21:16 +CONFIG_REGMAP=y and REGMAP_I2C=m are new Jul 26 21:21:34 XVMALLOC ZCACHE and ZRAM got turned off Jul 26 21:23:35 ogra_, what keys to use to boot into recovery on the ac100? Jul 26 22:22:06 ogra_, ah you removed the 30 minutes text from the installer, nice :) Jul 26 22:23:43 * RoyK smacks his raspberry pi Jul 26 22:25:12 janimo: I think he should have taken an average timing of 5 installs, and ammended the message to "this process may take around 13.73 minutes, ish." Jul 26 22:26:40 it is 5-6 minutes in my tests. Not sure if the USB stick or the internal mmc is the bottleneck Jul 26 22:26:45 but its not slow at all Jul 26 22:27:14 Yeah, I know. I just pulled 13.73 out of my ass. :P Jul 26 22:28:02 I figured. Ithought 5 - as I experienced should be representative for all, but forgot the usb stick/sd card used has an influence Jul 26 22:29:16 infinity, I'll do some more work on mono tomorrow and in the weekend, today and yesterday I did not do anything. **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Jul 27 02:59:58 2012