Newbie ZYXEL NSA-320 Installation Questions

[shivahoj]

Hello,
being not too happy with the stock firmware, i just downloaded and installed the latest archlinux (dont know which uboot, and also dont know how to find out)on a ZYXEL NSA-320.
I have a serial adapter hooked up, and i could see the thing booting. However, there are a few concerns:

1) I installed samba and edited /etc/samba/smb.conf.
but when i tried to start it, it gave:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# time systemctl enable nmbd.service
Failed to execute operation: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
real 0m25.040s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
[root@alarm ~]#')
The same happens when i try to start or enable smbd.

2) The LEDs on the device dont work, only the blue Power LED and the highest orange (SYS) LED are up, all others dont do nothing. Neither does the power button, and "halt" gives:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# halt
Failed to start halt.target: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
Failed to open /dev/initctl: No such device or address
Failed to talk to init daemon.')
Do i really have to pull the power plug?

3) a Minor issue, but worth mentioning: I have no login on the serial console(i can enter text at the "Hit any key to stop autoboot: 2 ... 1 ... 0 " line in the minicom window that is echoed back to me), but the last line on the serial console is as follows:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' __ __ _ _
| \/ | __ _ _ ____ _____| | |
| |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
| | | | (_| | | \ V / __/ | |
|_| |_|\__,_|_| \_/ \___|_|_|
_ _ ____ _
| | | | | __ ) ___ ___ | |_
| | | |___| _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
\___/ |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|
** MARVELL BOARD: RD-88F6281A LE

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 23 2011 - 16:09:39) Marvell version: 3.4.19

U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 006CFEE0

Soc: 88F6281 A1 (DDR2)
CPU running @ 1200Mhz L2 running @ 400Mhz
SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz

DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 256MB
DRAM CS[1] base 0x10000000 size 256MB
DRAM Total size 512MB 16bit width
Addresses 10M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.
Mem malloc Initialization (10M - 7M): Done
NAND:128 MB
Flash: 0 kB

CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)
//--- stateButtonBit = 3, recovery ---//
Kernel address is 0x4640000.

Streaming disabled
Write allocate disabled

Module 0 is RGMII
Module 1 is TDM

USB 0: host mode
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.
Net: egiga0, egiga1 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 2 ... 1 ... 0

Reset IDE:
Marvell Serial ATA Adapter
Integrated Sata device found
[0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode (6)
Device 0 @ 0 0:
Model: SAMSUNG HD103SI Firm: 1AG01113 Ser#: S1XGJ90SA09848
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 953869.7 MB = 931.5 GB (1953525168 x 512)


3124268 bytes read
## Booting image at 02000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.10-33-ARCH
Created: 2014-04-27 8:45:16 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3124204 Bytes = 3 MB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.10-33-ARCH (nobody@root-armv5-copy) (gcc version 4.8.2 20131219 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Sun Apr 27 02:45:06 MDT 2014
[ 0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: ZyXEL NSA320 2-Bay Power Media Server
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 131072
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c05f36c0, node_mem_map c06c4000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1024 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 130048 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x100000(uboot),0x80000(uboot_env),0x80000(key_store),0x80000(info),0xA00000(etc),0xA00000(kernel_1),0x2FC0000(rootfs1),0xA00000(kernel_2),0x2FC0000(rootfs2) root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait loglevel=8
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] allocated 2097152 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
[ 0.000000] Memory: 512MB = 512MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 510780k/510780k available, 13508k reserved, 0K highmem
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] DMA : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 ( 2 MB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfe800000 ( 480 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc058fda4 (5664 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc0590000 - 0xc05bc000 ( 176 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc05bc000 - 0xc05f5f10 ( 232 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc05f5f34 - 0xc06c3b6c ( 824 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 6.870447] Calibrating delay loop... 1196.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=5984256)
[ 6.960390] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 6.960499] Security Framework initialized
[ 6.960521] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter
[ 6.960579] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 6.960920] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 6.960943] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 6.960975] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 6.960987] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 6.960996] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 6.961004] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 6.961025] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 6.961042] Initializing cgroup subsys bfqio
[ 6.961120] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 6.962225] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 6.963860] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 6.964425] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
[ 6.964438] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[ 6.964472] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 6.964945] initial MPP regs: 21111111 01003311 33331100 33003333 00000533 20202000 00000000
[ 6.964976] final MPP regs: 01111111 00003311 00001100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 6.969716] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 6.970044] vgaarb: loaded
[ 6.970292] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 6.970462] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 6.970664] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 6.970746] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 6.970842] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 6.971349] Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 6.979323] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 6.980379] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 6.988584] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 6.988793] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 6.989424] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 6.989776] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 6.989955] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 6.989964] TCP reno registered
[ 6.989973] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 6.989994] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 6.990209] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 6.990241] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 6.990784] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 6.990813] type=2000 audit(0.100:1): initialized
[ 7.065033] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 7.065279] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 7.067359] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) .. 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 7.068588] aufs 3.1-20130325
[ 7.068608] msgmni has been set to 997
[ 7.069847] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[ 7.069861] io scheduler noop registered
[ 7.069868] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 7.069943] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 7.070006] io scheduler bfq registered (default)
[ 7.070013] BFQ I/O-scheduler version: v7r2
[ 7.070069] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 7.070098] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 7.101421] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 7.141422] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 7.181418] mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 7.221419] mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 7.226215] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 7.246845] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
[ 7.801672] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 7.810851] brd: module loaded
[ 7.816708] loop: module loaded
[ 7.820159] sata_mv sata_mv.0: version 1.28
[ 7.824499] sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 2
[ 7.830615] scsi0 : sata_mv
[ 7.833816] scsi1 : sata_mv
[ 7.836818] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
[ 7.840935] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 21
[ 7.845921] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xf1 (Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
[ 7.854772] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 7.947955] Bad eraseblock 852 at 0x000006a80000
[ 7.961108] Bad eraseblock 934 at 0x0000074c0000
[ 7.975069] Creating 9 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 7.980232] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "uboot"
[ 7.985500] 0x000000100000-0x000000180000 : "uboot_env"
[ 7.991053] 0x000000180000-0x000000200000 : "key_store"
[ 7.996617] 0x000000200000-0x000000280000 : "info"
[ 8.001708] 0x000000280000-0x000000c80000 : "etc"
[ 8.006694] 0x000000c80000-0x000001680000 : "kernel_1"
[ 8.012147] 0x000001680000-0x000004640000 : "rootfs1"
[ 8.017519] 0x000004640000-0x000005040000 : "kernel_2"
[ 8.022973] 0x000005040000-0x000008000000 : "rootfs2"
[ 8.029026] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[ 8.035966] mv643xx_eth smi: probed
[ 8.042665] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0: eth0: port 0 with MAC address b0:b2:dc:ee:d4:f2
[ 8.051674] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 8.058262] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
[ 8.063584] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 8.091398] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 8.111384] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 8.117861] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 8.121681] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 8.126102] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 8.131083] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 8.137139] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 8.141885] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 8.147976] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 8.153819] rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
[ 8.159790] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 8.166034] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 8.170472] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 8.176297] Registered led device: nsa320:green:hdd2
[ 8.181409] Registered led device: nsa320:red:hdd2
[ 8.186307] Registered led device: nsa320:green:usb
[ 8.191290] Registered led device: nsa320:green:sys
[ 8.196290] Registered led device: nsa320:orange:sys
[ 8.201444] Registered led device: nsa320:green:copy
[ 8.206527] Registered led device: nsa320:red:copy
[ 8.211450] Registered led device: nsa320:green:hdd1
[ 8.216529] Registered led device: nsa320:red:hdd1
[ 8.221637] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[ 8.228003] GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
[ 8.232488] TCP cubic registered
[ 8.235916] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 8.240449] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
[ 8.246158] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 8.251424] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[ 8.256175] Gating clock of unused units
[ 8.260112] before: 0x00dfc3dd
[ 8.263189] after: 0x00c7c1c9
[ 8.266757] registered taskstats version 1
[ 8.271492] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 8.275171] netconsole: network logging started
[ 8.280272] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0
[ 8.287269] rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2085-07-13 15:51:05 UTC (3645877865)
[ 8.451396] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 8.481396] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl F300)
[ 8.521427] ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD103SI, 1AG01113, max UDMA7
[ 8.527462] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 8.551592] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 8.571718] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD103SI 1AG0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.580349] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 8.588342] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 8.593927] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.598739] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 8.604331] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.615165] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 8.619284] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 8.794061] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 8.797887] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 8.951396] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl F300)
[ 8.978312] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 9.001599] EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
[ 9.127386] EXT4-fs (sda2): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[ 9.461816] EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete
[ 9.466396] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 9.474137] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 8:2.
[ 9.642288] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 9.645774] Freeing init memory: 176K
[ 13.091619] systemd[1]: systemd 212 running in system mode. (+PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ +SECCOMP -APPARMOR)
[ 13.105274] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'arm'.

Welcome to .[0;36mArch Linux ARM.[0m!

[ 14.537054] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4'
[ 14.640759] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 14.648257] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[ 14.672344] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <alarm>.
[ 15.248341] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 15.265463] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-ttyS0.device...
Expecting device dev-ttyS0.device...
[ 15.291501] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 15.299542] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 15.307270] systemd[1]: Expecting device sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device...
Expecting device sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device...
[ 15.331492] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Remote File Systems.
[ 15.351462] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems.
[ 15.357185] systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 15.365473] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 15.373536] systemd[1]: Starting Paths.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Paths.
[ 15.391461] systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
[ 15.395928] systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[ 15.421458] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[ 15.427032] systemd[1]: Starting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats F...utomount Point.
[ 15.461470] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 15.471011] systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Swap.
[ 15.491460] systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
[ 15.495832] systemd[1]: Starting Root Slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice Root Slice.
[ 18.691475] systemd[1]: Created slice Root Slice.
[ 18.696303] systemd[1]: Starting Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 18.721466] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 18.728111] systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 18.751462] systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 18.757321] systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 18.781462] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 18.788538] systemd[1]: Starting LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 18.811462] systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 18.817697] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
[ 18.841461] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
[ 18.846906] systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on udev Control Socket.
[ 18.871462] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
[ 18.876971] systemd[1]: Starting User and Session Slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice User and Session Slice.
[ 18.901475] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.
[ 18.907356] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on Journal Socket.
[ 18.931486] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
[ 18.936618] systemd[1]: Starting System Slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice System Slice.
[ 18.961473] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
[ 18.967178] systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
[ 18.973424] systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
Starting Setup Virtual Console...
[ 19.022368] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel...
Starting Create list of required static device nodes...rrent kernel...
[ 19.172200] systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System.
[ 19.193273] systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
[ 19.312202] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
Mounting Debug File System...
[ 19.462018] systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
[ 19.467191] systemd[1]: Mounted Configuration File System.
[ 19.477271] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
[ 19.591921] systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[ 19.597573] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
[ 19.742112] systemd[1]: Starting system-netctl\x2difplugd.slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice system-netctl\x2difplugd.slice.
[ 19.771527] systemd[1]: Created slice system-netctl\x2difplugd.slice.
[ 19.778177] systemd[1]: Starting system-getty.slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 19.881557] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 19.887092] systemd[1]: Starting system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
[ 19.921492] systemd[1]: Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
[ 19.927902] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Starting Journal Service...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Journal Service.
[ 19.991519] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Slices.
Mounting Temporary Directory...
Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
[ 20.164071] systemd-journald[65]: Failed to register hostname fd in event loop: Operation not permitted. Ignoring.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Mounted Debug File System.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Mounted Temporary Directory.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Setup Virtual Console.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Create list of required static device nodes ...current kernel.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Apply Kernel Variables.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
Starting Load/Save Random Seed...
Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Load/Save Random Seed.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Local File Systems (Pre).
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Local File Systems.
Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage...
Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
[ 21.514334] systemd-udevd[76]: starting version 212
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
[ 21.662723] systemd-journald[65]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Create Volatile Files and Directories.
Starting Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target System Initialization.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Sockets.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Timers.
[.[32m OK .[0m] Reached target Basic System.
Starting Entropy Harvesting Daemon...
Starting OpenSSH Daemon...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started OpenSSH Daemon.
Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
[.[32m OK .[0m] Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
Starting Permit User Sessions...
Starting Login Service... ')
But i can ssh into the NSA, so i would be fine with this.

As i said in the subject, i am a complete Archlinux newbie, and would like to thank you for any help!

Dirk

[WarheadsSE]

1) halt does not power off. It halts.
2) not having a serial console is .. odd.

everything else -- wtf mate not being able to connect to the systemd process.

[shivahoj]

Hello, i was using "halt" just as an example.
Also, shutdown and reboot both dont work.

I did a new install, (just in case), but now even ssh(d) doesnt work anymore, neither does serial console login, and i am locked out of the running machine.
BTW: in the http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/nsa3x0/ directory, what are the NSA-320_uboot.ndi and NSA-320_uboot_env.ndi files, where are the differences, and how do i use them?
Yours
Dirk

[WarheadsSE]

You should not be using either of them unless you toasted the piss out of your nand.

[WarheadsSE]

How did you do "a new install" ?

[shivahoj]

Basically, i did:
pacman -S uboot-env

(Stuff deleted)

[root@alarm etc]# nano /etc/fw_env.config
[root@alarm etc]# fw_setenv bootcmd 'run to_stock'
Then pulled the Power plug,since it doesnt powerdown, removed the USBstick, power it back up,
checked that stock firmware was reinstalled and started, when the original web GUI was up and running, i restarted with the USB stick plugged in.
Thats how i did it.
Dirk

[WarheadsSE]

Okay. I wanted to be sure you did it safely. That was one of the safest methods.

I suggest this:
Power cycle it, switch to stock, then, from stock, at the serial console, switch back to linux without re-installing.