Just the one since Saturday:
---------------- snowball06 ---------------- http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
If it's not reliable it should be taken out. We can move it over to staging for more validation of reliability tests.
Thanks
Dave
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
Dave
Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com writes:
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens.
With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway.
Cheers, mwh
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:20:11PM +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com writes:
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens.
With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway.
What about first sending a "halt" command to make sure everything is flushed properly, and only after that power cycling the board?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Antonio Terceiro antonio.terceiro@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:20:11PM +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com writes:
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens.
With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway.
What about first sending a "halt" command to make sure everything is flushed properly, and only after that power cycling the board?
Yeah. That's what I would expect...
On 15 Nov 2012, at 13:08, Antonio Terceiro antonio.terceiro@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:20:11PM +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com writes:
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens.
With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway.
What about first sending a "halt" command to make sure everything is flushed properly, and only after that power cycling the board?
+1 - ideal solution
Dave
Dave Pigott dave.pigott@linaro.org writes:
On 15 Nov 2012, at 13:08, Antonio Terceiro antonio.terceiro@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:20:11PM +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com writes:
On 12 Nov 2012, at 12:49, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dave Pigott dpigott@gmail.com wrote:
Just the one since Saturday:
snowball06
http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/38435
As noted by Andy, this is our most flakey snowball. I'm proposing retiring it. It failed three times to reboot and get the network up. I went on the board and had to hard reset to get the network to come up, which suggests it gets into a weird state that needs a completely clean boot.
What is a clean boot? And why are we not doing a clean boot by default?
Clean boot = hard reset
Yes, I thought the same. I think we should always do a hard reset rather than a soft boot. It would mean the board state would be more likely to be consistent.
The worry with always power cycling on master image targets is that powering off sd cards is not particularly friendly, the firmware might be shuffling blocks around as you do it and so even parts of the master rootfs might be lost. But maybe we should try it and see what happens.
With the sd mux, we have to power cycle each time anyway.
What about first sending a "halt" command to make sure everything is flushed properly, and only after that power cycling the board?
+1 - ideal solution
+1 from me too.
Cheers, mwh
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