Only red light after update rasperry-firmware

[smaxer]

Hi,

on Monday I did an system update (pacman -Syu) which updated among others the following packages:

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raspberrypi-firmware-20130721-1 raspberrypi-firmware-bootloader-20130721-1 raspberrypi-firmware-bootloader-x-20130721-1 raspberrypi-firmware-emergency-kernel-20130721-1 raspberrypi-firmware-examples-20130721-1 raspberrypi-firmware-tools-20130721-1
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After an immediate reboot my raspberry didn't come up i.e. no boot screen just the red light on. So I tried several things like downgrading the firmware packages to *20130707* and the things suggested on: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting Nothing helped. So I simply copied the boot partition of the original image to my sdcard which did work and still works. Curious as I'am I did a pacman -Syu again which updated the packages above (because of the downgrade), I rebooted immediately: again only the red light.

For now I again just copied the original boot partition to my sdcard which works. But I'm afraid with the next update my raspberry crashes again.

So without a clue whats going wrong I'm asking you guys for help.

cmdline.txt and config.txt can be found here: http://pastebin.com/HZaE6Mk9

Thanks

smax

[pepedog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')I rebooted immediately

[smaxer]

I did a orderly reboot with umount etc. so there should have been a "sync" somewhere.... but I just tried it again with an implicit sync with the same result: just the red light on.

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alarmpi@/var/cache/pacman # pacman -S raspberrypi-firmware raspberrypi-firmware-bootloader raspberrypi-firmware-emergency-kernel raspberrypi-firmware-examples raspberrypi-firmware-bootloader-x raspberrypi-firmware-tools
alarmpi@/var/cache/pacman # sync
alarmpi@/var/cache/pacman # sync
alarmpi@/var/cache/pacman # sync
alarmpi@/var/cache/pacman # reboot
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[pepedog]

Which image was the origin?
Need to see cmdline.txt and config.txt

[smaxer]

cmdline and config can be found in the pastbin link in the first post.

The raspberry firmware of the "original" image is version *20130514*. I'm probably going to try to use a boot partition of the current install image. Because this one is a littelbit buggy.

[smaxer]

The last working raspberry firmware is from: 20130611 All newer firmware won't work with my setup.

[sdjf]

smaxer: You mentioned two dates in your post, which one of them is the one you have found to be buggey? I am running the May 15 one, the June 15 I give up on. If the June 6 one is less buggey than May, I might try it.

[crashmaster]

I see a "init=/bin/systemd" in your "cmdline.txt". The latest Archlinux versions don't have that link, there is no "systemd" in "/bin" or "/usr/bin" anymore.
What happens if you delete this init parameter ?

[smaxer]

sdjf, the 20130514 (May) firmware works for me but has a buggy ethernet implementation, means "kevent 2 may have been dropped" errors.
The next available (in my locale pkg cache) is the 20130611 which works as well for me and hasn't the kevent 2 Error.

crashmaster, I just checked my cmdline.txt and I don't have the init variable in there anymore It looks like this:
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smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=noop rootwait
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Musst have been from the May firmware packages - maybe...