Re: Re: Disturbing reports of upgrades causing flash to be overwritten

On 5/27/06, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 17:14 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Richard Purdie schreef:
> > > On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:25 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> > >> We've had at least 2 reports now of upgrades causing a machine to be
> > >> unbootable and have to be reflashed from scratch (NAND backup or
> > >> OSPack). Does anyone know of any recent changes which could cause
> > >> overwriting of flash outside of the filesystem? Kernel changes or
> > >> fsprog changes?
> > >
> > > A kernel that was too large? Maybe something to do with hrw's logo
> > > changes? We should detect large kernels but...
> >
> > I think this refers to 'ipkg upgrade' overfilling the flash.
>
> That shouldn't be possible. You could potentially overfill it and not
> leave enough space for garbage collection which would lock the partition
> up and perhaps cause a booting issue but you should never damage
> anything enough to require a NAND restore? :-/
>

True, yet at least 2 users seem to have reported that an ipkg upgrade
caused their machine to be "bricked", and on different machines. It
could have been other causes, of course, I just wanted to see if
anyone knew of any changes that might cause this.

-- 
Justin Patrin


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