Solved: Can not reboot after shutdown ppv4

[jhaveri]

I have searched for hours and still no answers. I can not cleanly shutdown ppv4. The green light stays on. I have rootfs on a flash drive on top, and media files on a usb hd plugged in the back. I issue the command "shutdown -h now" from a ssh session on windows to ppv4. The green light is on, but the ssh stops working. I wait for a few hours. When I want to reboot, I just unplug and plug the ppv4 again to the power strip. Then the green light keeps flashing and no reboot.

Only way to boot, is put the flash drive in linux computer, run "fsck -fy /dev/sdb1" followed by "tune2fs -j /dev/sdb1" and plug the usb drive back in ppv4, and power it up. It boots then.

There must be some way to clean shut down the Pogoplug Series 4 with Arch Linux ARM. I just installed it yesterday. I would hate to revert to the original firmware.

Please help.

Regards,

jhaveri

[pepedog]

Does poweroff work ok?

[jhaveri]

I just issued the command poweroff. The green light is still on. No ssh. So I have power cycled. Too bad. It is flashing. Well, I have to boot in linux and do the fsck and tune2fs.

Well, it is clean, and I have booted again in ppv4. I do not plan to shutdown, until I get some suggestions for a powerdown the device here.

Any more suggestions?

[pepedog]

Some suggestions from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151487
Is systemd-sysvcompat installed? If not then install.
Uninstall cronie and install dcron instead
Always sync before reboot or poweroff

[jhaveri]

Installed systemd-sysvcompat
Uninstalled cronie and installd cron
sync
poweroff

I still have solid green light, so it seems not halted. I have waited about 5 minutes. Should i wait longer?

OK waited for half an hour, and fixed file system and booted again. Now doing full upgrade using pacman -Syu . Found conflict of ntp with opennntpd. Wonder if that caused problem . It is downloading a lot of update packages. Let me see, if it fixes the issue.

I am not the only one with this issue, am I? Are others with ppv4 able to shutdown with arch linux?

[UberSlackr]

You are not $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jhaveri', '
')I am not the only one with this issue, am I? Are others with ppv4 able to shutdown with arch linux?

[jhaveri]

OK, I have a temporary working solution. I transferred the flash drive partition to an external usb 2.0 drive to partion /dev/sda1. I also created a data partition /dev/sda2 on this drive as sda2. I plugged it in the top of ppv4 instead of flash drive. I can now boot, and to shutdown, I use
"systemctl poweroff" command.

Once again, the ssh connection from my pc is gone, but the green light stays study. For some reason, arch linux on pogoplug series 4 can not completely shut the power. Anyway, I pull the powercord out. Good news is that when I am ready to boot again, I plug the power cord back in, and the system just boots up fine.

I am still puzzled. Just because the system is booting up, is my partition /dev/sda1 on usb external drive OK or got corrupted?

In some sense, completely powering off pogoplug is not necessary if the system is actually cleanly shut down, since there is no way to boot the device except by unplugging and plugging the power cord. There is no power button on pogoplug like nslu2. Am I missing something?

[pepedog]

Some devices completly shut down, some don't
/sbin/poweroff is symlinked to systemctl so poweroff is the same as systemctl poweroff

[jhaveri]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'S')ome devices completly shut down, some don't
/sbin/poweroff is symlinked to systemctl so poweroff is the same as systemctl poweroff

[pepedog]

Buy me one and I will tell you
My V2 doesn't but drives do unmount fine