Pogoplug V2 - REBOOT and SHUTDOWN -r DOESNT WORK

[metalshark]

Hi Guys,
Ever since I hacked my Pogoplug and installed ARM in it, I noticed that my "reboot" and "shutdown -r " commands do not work. What happens is that it looks like it just shuts down. This is somewhat a nuisance because i needed to reboot my plug very often. Is there anybody having the same problems now and before..? Sorry if this has been tackled before.. Kinda new at this. Thanks guys!

[WarheadsSE]

LET ME HAVE AN IMMEDIATE LOOK AT YOUR POST BECAUSE IT TITLE IS IN ALL CAPS.

Oh wait.

Perhaps you should realize that you should be ensuring that said commands are actually applicable via the systemd-sysvinit-compat, or jsut call systemctl reboot / systemctl poweroff.

[metalshark]

Thanks for the reply and apologies for the CAPS. Yes WarHeadsSE, i've checked if it's the right command. I'm a Newbie not dumb. But anyway, any other suggestions? BTW, I'm a guy coming from a windows environment. This is pretty much my first take on using Linux. I guess I have to start somewhere.

[Socaltom]

Have you tried " systemctl reboot " and "systemctl poweroff" ?
What type of drive are you using? Why do you need to reboot often?
Tom

[metalshark]

Hi Socaltom,

Yeah, I tried all of those. For some reason nothing worked. I've used USB sticks and USB Hard Drives.
To be honest, I'm just trying to figure out a way to setup a Samba Server and a Web Server without any fuss. I have looked at the internet and noticed that there are so many people saying how to do this. But it seems that Arch Linux ARM for POGOPLUG is so unstable that so many people are asking the same questions.

Case in point, last night I took another USB stick and reformatted the same way i did the other 2. For some reason, the REBOOT and SHUTDOWN commands are working with this one!

I'm still doing a lot of test why this happened. I would keep formatting HDDs till I find out what I did wrong and will share with everybody. Hopefully I can find out how to setup web server which is less painful! Thanks for the reply buddy.

[metalshark]

Ugghhh... Tried replicating it and still it didn't work! is there anybody else having the same problem?

[pepedog]

You have been advised not to use bsdtar, gonna quote a pm, adjust for your rootfs, not imx6
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'I have just a little feedback on the installation process, which I tried for the purpose of determining whether there was anything I needed to modify on my working rootfs. You're right to recommend bsdtar rather than tar. However, I had to change the command a bit, because (1) bsdtar complaied if LANG wasn't set to something of UTF8 flavour, and (2) we want uid/gid to match the user/group mappings of the installation, not of the host.

LANG=en_US.UTF8 bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-imx6-cubox-latest.tar.gz --numeric-owner -C root

Even after this, I found that bsdtar on Ubuntu 12.04 didn't handle ACLs properly, so var/log/journal and var/log/journal/remote didn't get their proper ACLs. Just as a heads-up, I notice that you have etc/resolv.conf as a symlink, and that a reinstall/upgrade of the filesystem package replaces this symlink with an ordinary file.')

[metalshark]

Hi PepeDog,

Thanks for the info. I didn't see this one. BTW, I used tar -xzvf instead. Still have the same problems. Could you be more specific when you said "adjust for your rootfs, not imx6"? I'm a total Noob with Linux System. I appreciate all the help you guys are giving.

[Geoff]

The tar command also has a "--numeric-owner" flag to set file ownership by uid/gid instead of user/group. However, I noticed the same issue with tar as mentioned in another thread:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('metalshark', 'I') too have the same problem and I also tried using Tar but i got this error:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'')

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('metalshark', 'H')i Socaltom,

Yeah, I tried all of those. For some reason nothing worked. I've used USB sticks and USB Hard Drives.
To be honest, I'm just trying to figure out a way to setup a Samba Server and a Web Server without any fuss. I have looked at the internet and noticed that there are so many people saying how to do this. But it seems that Arch Linux ARM for POGOPLUG is so unstable that so many people are asking the same questions.

Case in point, last night I took another USB stick and reformatted the same way i did the other 2. For some reason, the REBOOT and SHUTDOWN commands are working with this one!

I'm still doing a lot of test why this happened. I would keep formatting HDDs till I find out what I did wrong and will share with everybody. Hopefully I can find out how to setup web server which is less painful! Thanks for the reply buddy.