Pogoplug E02 won't boot after power outage

[maz1324]

I had a power outage and ever since I have not been able to get archlinux to boot on my Pogoplug E02.

If I boot the pogoplug without the external hard drive attached that contains the install of archlinux, I can access it over the network. If I attach the drive and reboot the pogoplug, I cannot access it over the network and my router doesn't show it either.

I loaded up a live cd of Ubuntu. I plugged in the external harddrive I was previously booting off of. I unmounted the external drive as it automounts and then ran e2fsck -f against the drive. Then I reattached it to the pogoplug and tried booting again. I still cannot access it.

When I attached the hard drive to the PC running Ubuntu, I could access the files I have stored on it.

What else can I try to resolve this issue?

[moonman]

Netconsole seems like a next logical step unless you want to reinstall.

[maz1324]

This is the output I get from netconsole. No additional output displays after it states that it is "Starting kernel". I waited for about 10 minutes. This is the first time I've used netconsole before so I'm not sure if I set it up correctly.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'U-Boot 2011.12 (Feb 20 2012 - 21:21:59)
Pogoplug E02
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 4.4.1
GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 2.19.51.20090709
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Loading file "/rescueme" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /rescueme
reading /rescueme.txt

** Unable to read "/rescueme.txt" from usb 0:1 **
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
0x000002500000-0x000008000000 : "mtd=3"
UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size: 129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
UBI: sub-page size: 512
UBI: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset: 2048
UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name: "mtd=3"
UBI: MTD device size: 91 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs: 728
UBI: number of bad PEBs: 0
UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes: 0
UBI: available PEBs: 717
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 11
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 7
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/1
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:rootfs", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
1 bytes read
Found bootable drive on usb 0:1
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
2888208 bytes read
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /boot/uInitrd
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.10-20-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2888144 Bytes = 2.8 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...
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[hydro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('maz1324', 'N')o additional output displays after it states that it is "Starting kernel". I waited for about 10 minutes.

[maz1324]

Thanks for the link. I was able to get additional output from netconsole. Below is the output. It looks like there is an issue mounting the filesystem.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2011.12 (Feb 20 2012 - 21:21:59)
Pogoplug E02
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 4.4.1
GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 2.19.51.20090709
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Loading file "/rescueme" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /rescueme
reading /rescueme.txt

** Unable to read "/rescueme.txt" from usb 0:1 **
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
0x000002500000-0x000008000000 : "mtd=3"
UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size: 129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
UBI: sub-page size: 512
UBI: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset: 2048
UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name: "mtd=3"
UBI: MTD device size: 91 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs: 728
UBI: number of bad PEBs: 0
UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes: 0
UBI: available PEBs: 717
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 11
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 7
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/1
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:rootfs", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
1 bytes read
Found bootable drive on usb 0:1
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
2888208 bytes read
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /boot/uInitrd
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.10-20-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2888144 Bytes = 2.8 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

[ 23.955990] EXT4-fs (sda1): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 23.975159] List of all partitions:
[ 23.978702] 0800 732574583 sda driver: sd
[ 23.983381] 0801 732572001 sda1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
[ 23.990516] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 23.995293] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00303030
[ 24.002738] pgd = c0004000
[ 24.005485] [00303030] *pgd=00000000
[ 24.009107] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT
[ 24.013745] Modules linked in:
[ 24.016823] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.1.10-20-ARCH #1)
[ 24.021997] PC is at mount_block_root+0x200/0x280
[ 24.026723] LR is at mount_block_root+0x1e0/0x280
[ 24.031452] pc : [<c0539bfc>] lr : [<c0539bdc>] psr: 40000013
[ 24.031457] sp : cf82bf80 ip : 00000000 fp : 00000000
[ 24.042991] r10: c04a6f40 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00008000
[ 24.048242] r7 : c086b95c r6 : c055bf0c r5 : cf812005 r4 : 00303030
[ 24.054800] r3 : cf82beb0 r2 : cf82bf74 r1 : c04a6f18 r0 : 00000039
[ 24.061358] Flags: nZcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel
[ 24.068708] Control: 0005397f Table: 00004000 DAC: 00000017
[ 24.074480] Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xcf82a270)
[ 24.080341] Stack: (0xcf82bf80 to 0xcf82c000)
[ 24.084724] bf80: 00000000 00000000 00006180 cf4a2980 00006000 c00d35bc cf8190a0 cf497300
[ 24.092946] bfa0: c04a6f40 00000001 c059d340 c055bf21 c000945c 00000013 00000000 00000000
[ 24.101170] bfc0: 00000000 c0539f3c fffffffe 00000002 00000000 c0562f00 c0562f00 c05398c8
[ 24.109392] bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c05397ac c000945c ffffffff ffffffff
[ 24.117625] [<c0539bfc>] (mount_block_root+0x200/0x280) from [<c0539f3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0)
[ 24.127247] [<c0539f3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0) from [<c05398c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c)
[ 24.136438] [<c05398c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c) from [<c000945c>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
[ 24.145366] Code: e1a00004 ebf38eaf e2800001 e0844000 (e5d43000)
[ 24.151653] ---[ end trace 598d946cac648ee0 ]---
[ 24.156419] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 24.162407] [<c000d290>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c03d2714>] (panic+0x58/0x198)
[ 24.170672] [<c03d2714>] (panic+0x58/0x198) from [<c0021afc>] (do_exit+0x88/0x7a0)
[ 24.178324] [<c0021afc>] (do_exit+0x88/0x7a0) from [<c000b8e0>] (die+0x1d4/0x200)
[ 24.185880] [<c000b8e0>] (die+0x1d4/0x200) from [<c03d25ec>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.2+0x54/0x74)
[ 24.194818] [<c03d25ec>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.2+0x54/0x74) from [<c03d9e18>] (do_page_fault.part.3+0x274/0x2b0)
[ 24.205256] [<c03d9e18>] (do_page_fault.part.3+0x274/0x2b0) from [<c03d9e80>] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x94)
[ 24.214713] [<c03d9e80>] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x94) from [<c00083cc>] (do_DataAbort+0x34/0x98)
[ 24.223317] [<c00083cc>] (do_DataAbort+0x34/0x98) from [<c03d8638>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60)
[ 24.231648] Exception stack(0xcf82bf38 to 0xcf82bf80)
[ 24.236749] bf20: 00000039 c04a6f18
[ 24.244983] bf40: cf82bf74 cf82beb0 00303030 cf812005 c055bf0c c086b95c 00008000 00000000
[ 24.253307] bf60: c04a6f40 00000000 00000000 cf82bf80 c0539bdc c0539bfc 40000013 ffffffff
[ 24.261563] [<c03d8638>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60) from [<c0539bfc>] (mount_block_root+0x200/0x280)
[ 24.270430] [<c0539bfc>] (mount_block_root+0x200/0x280) from [<c0539f3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0)
[ 24.280080] [<c0539f3c>] (prepare_namespace+0x160/0x1c0) from [<c05398c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c)
[ 24.289296] [<c05398c8>] (kernel_init+0x11c/0x14c) from [<c000945c>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

')

[moonman]

It seems you have ext3 filesystem. Am I correct? you need to change usb_rootfstype from ext2 to ext3. In netconsole interrupt the boot process.

Then enter this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'setenv usb_rootfstype ext3
saveenv
reset')

[maz1324]

Looks like that got me a little further, but I still can't reach it over the network nor do I see it in my router.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2011.12 (Feb 20 2012 - 21:21:59)
Pogoplug E02
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 4.4.1
GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 2.19.51.20090709
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Loading file "/rescueme" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /rescueme
reading /rescueme.txt

** Unable to read "/rescueme.txt" from usb 0:1 **
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
0x000002500000-0x000008000000 : "mtd=3"
UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size: 129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
UBI: sub-page size: 512
UBI: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset: 2048
UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name: "mtd=3"
UBI: MTD device size: 91 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs: 728
UBI: number of bad PEBs: 0
UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes: 0
UBI: available PEBs: 717
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 11
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 7
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/1
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:rootfs", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:rootfs'!
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
1 bytes read
Found bootable drive on usb 0:1
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
2888208 bytes read
Loading file "/boot/uInitrd" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
** File not found /boot/uInitrd
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.10-20-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2888144 Bytes = 2.8 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

[ 28.035604] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 28.652924] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[ 28.657983] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 28.665760] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 8:1.
[ 28.698889] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 28.702540] Freeing init memory: 172K
[ 29.944959] systemd[1]: systemd 204 running in system mode. (+PAM -LIBWRAP -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ)
[ 30.236130] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4'
[ 30.312288] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 30.320629] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[ 30.381265] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <alarm>.
[ 30.879437] systemd[1]: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/nzbget.service:4] Unknown lvalue 'DaemonAfter' in section 'Unit'
[ 31.056961] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
[ 31.079434] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 31.087572] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 31.095352] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-ttyS0.device...
[ 31.124899] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems.
[ 31.144926] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems.
[ 31.153663] systemd[1]: Starting Syslog Socket.
[ 31.174863] systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket.
[ 31.179884] systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 31.204852] systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 31.210730] systemd[1]: Starting Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 31.234886] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 31.244582] systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 31.274848] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 31.281945] systemd[1]: Starting LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 31.304856] systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 31.311080] systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes.
[ 31.334843] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[ 31.340486] systemd[1]: Starting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 31.374857] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 31.384436] systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 31.392770] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 31.400841] systemd[1]: Starting Paths.
[ 31.424859] systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
[ 31.429671] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket.
[ 31.454855] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
[ 31.460578] systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket.
[ 31.484855] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
[ 31.490404] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket.
[ 31.514849] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
[ 31.520235] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
[ 31.586425] systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System.
[ 31.591862] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
[ 32.358287] systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
[ 32.364550] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
[ 32.444967] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
[ 32.617099] systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
[ 32.685522] systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
[ 32.755458] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
[ 32.825442] systemd[1]: Starting Create static device nodes in /dev...
[ 34.122324] systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
[ 34.127527] systemd[1]: Mounted Configuration File System.
[ 34.133161] systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[ 34.138738] systemd[1]: Mounting Temporary Directory...
[ 34.246492] systemd[1]: Started File System Check on Root Device.
[ 34.252755] systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[ 34.405004] systemd[1]: Mounted Debug File System.
[ 34.455002] systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables.
[ 34.514868] systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console.
[ 34.544859] systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
[ 34.604862] systemd[1]: Started Create static device nodes in /dev.
[ 34.624930] systemd[1]: Mounted Temporary Directory.
[ 34.684875] systemd[1]: Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[ 34.744874] systemd[1]: Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
[ 34.751645] systemd[1]: Starting Load Random Seed...
[ 34.816103] systemd[1]: Activating swap /swapfile...
[ 34.875555] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
[ 35.004945] systemd[1]: Started Load Random Seed.
[ 35.315543] Adding 524284k swap on /swapfile. Priority:-1 extents:5 across:557052k
[ 35.344985] systemd[1]: Activated swap /swapfile.
[ 35.350388] systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
[ 35.374918] systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
[ 35.380796] systemd-udevd[74]: starting version 204
[ 35.404916] systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
[ 35.410766] systemd[1]: Starting Local File Systems (Pre).
[ 35.434903] systemd[1]: Reached target Local File Systems (Pre).
[ 35.441078] systemd[1]: Starting Local File Systems.
[ 35.464900] systemd[1]: Reached target Local File Systems.
[ 35.470552] systemd[1]: Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage...
[ 35.536054] systemd[1]: Starting Recreate Volatile Files and Directories...
[ 35.894977] systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.
[ 35.954914] systemd[1]: Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
[ 35.975010] systemd[1]: Starting Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown...
[ 37.378159] systemd-sysctl[109]: Duplicate assignment of kernel/sysrq in file '/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf', ignoring.
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[moonman]

check your fstab on the flash drive and make sure that it either has nothing in it (commented out stuff is fine) or that it's got ext3 specified for your rootfs. Also make sure you have all the drives that you have in fstab are connected before you power the device on. If it still fails, then try this: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5657&p=32126&hilit=ln+s+sshd#p32014 (remove the one there if there's one). And if that fails - reinstall. There's a guide in my signature for reinstallation, use ext3 as the filesystem.

[magnumbi]

I had a similar problem and found that following the instructions in this link solved the problem: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4576&start=10