BeagleBone Black images keep getting corrupted

[John Lenton]

Víctor, are you still seeing this with the images that mount boot with the
"sync" option?

On 28 April 2015 at 19:31, Gábor Paller <gaborpaller at gmail.com> wrote:

> it also happened to me many times. ever since i started shutting down the
> system properly (shutdown -h now), the problem disappeared. it seems to be
> related to switching off the power unexpectedly (unexpectedly for the
> system).
>
> regards,
> gabor
> On 28 Apr 2015 8:26 pm, "Víctor Mayoral Vilches" <victor at erlerobot.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> At Erle Robotics we've been doing quite a bit of testing with Snappy and
>> we honestly love it.
>>
>> Unfortunately the images get corrupted from time to time and that makes
>> it really troublesome. The reason seems to be related to a bad shutdown
>> process where some files in the *system-boot* partition get corrupted
>> (if not the whole partition itself). When dealing with drones we connect
>> and disconnect the batteries as needed thereby we constantly reproduce this
>> problem.
>>
>> After the image goes wrong the only noticeable change is that the
>> *system-boot* partition seems wrong. When booting with a corrupted image
>> we get this behavior
>> <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ad19776c93eccd2d1d43> (it ends up
>> switching into eMMC)
>>
>> When inspecting the system-boot partition:
>>
>> *cat snappy-system.txt *
>> *cat: snappy-system.txt: Input/output error*
>>
>> And for some reason, the whole system-boot partition seems wrong since
>> there's no way to edit it (complains about permissions and read-only file
>> system, tested with root and tried also repairing the partition but it did
>> not help).
>>
>> This is an issue that appeared a while ago and we hoped it'll get solved
>> eventually but keeps coming in newer images and many users might have
>> experienced it.
>>
>> Has anyone looked into this? Help would be much appreciated.
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *Víctor Mayoral Vilches*
>> CTO & Co-Founder
>>
>>
>>
>> *Erle Robotics*
>> erlerobotics.com | victor at erlerobot.com
>> +34 616151561
>> *skype*: v.mayoral
>>
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