Image backup crash ET9x00 2.4-112

[twol]

did my regular image backup, but it failed to complete with error msgs, said it would restart in 10 seconds and then hung - had to hard re-boot which then hung.
I had to re-flash with a previous backup.
The messages on the screen indicated missing component, so either I had a problem with the flash memory or image backup had a problem and then screwed up the flash.

Log attached.

Re-flash system OK and again backed up successfully.

[Rob van der Does]

Just out of curiosity: what fan-control plugin did you have installed?

[Rob van der Does]

Also be aware: you had Glass-HD installed. As the installation of that skin also hacks system-files, you can get all kinds of strange errors (as your crashreport indeed seems to indicate).

[twol]

et-plugins-systemplugins-fansetup_3.1_mipsel

[twol]

True, but installed 1st 2.4 image on 15/5/2010 and have taken image backups ever since with no problems - can still be the problem, but I would have thought a low probability as I leave the system alone until backup is complete, no recordings were running and EPG update is overnight.
Either way something trashed the flash memory.

Having looked at the USB stick afterwards it is "just possible" that it would have run out of space whilst completing the backups. There was a new folder(not in Imagebackups and I guess a work folder) with all the files ready to build (I think about 148MB) to the normal ET9x00 folder in Imagebackups.

[Rob van der Does]

Possibly; it's

</imageissue>
</image>
<software>
<enigma2software>
<!-- Cannot allocate memory -->
</enigma2software>
<xtrendsoftware>
<!-- Cannot allocate memory -->
</xtrendsoftware>
<gstreamersoftware>
<!-- Cannot allocate memory -->
</gstreamersoftware>
</software>
that's worrying.

[pooface]

Have had same problem last night myself on ultimo... My problem appears to give the following in error message:


[ImageManager] Stage3: Unmounting tmp system
>>> Error: [<Components.Task.FailedPostcondition instance at 0x6f8403a0>]
job Components.Task.Job name=ImageManager #tasks=10 completed with [<Components.Task.FailedPostcondition instance at 0x6f8403a0>] in Components.Task.Task name=Moving to Backup Location...
not retrying job.

This was from the log files taken at the time of creating the backup, and not a crash log like the one posted above...

[andyblac]

Have had same problem last night myself on ultimo... My problem appears to give the following in error message:


[ImageManager] Stage3: Unmounting tmp system
>>> Error: [<Components.Task.FailedPostcondition instance at 0x6f8403a0>]
job Components.Task.Job name=ImageManager #tasks=10 completed with [<Components.Task.FailedPostcondition instance at 0x6f8403a0>] in Components.Task.Task name=Moving to Backup Location...
not retrying job.

This was from the log files taken at the time of creating the backup, and not a crash log like the one posted above...

make sure destination is writeable.

[andyblac]

did my regular image backup, but it failed to complete with error msgs, said it would restart in 10 seconds and then hung - had to hard re-boot which then hung.
I had to re-flash with a previous backup.
The messages on the screen indicated missing component, so either I had a problem with the flash memory or image backup had a problem and then screwed up the flash.

Log attached.

Re-flash system OK and again backed up successfully.

looks like the hotplug of the device failed to mount


hotplug: {'ACTION': 'add', 'PHYSDEVPATH': '-', 'DEVPATH': '/block/sdc'}
couldn't read model: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys-/model'
new Harddisk sdc -> /dev/sdc -> /dev/sdc
HOTPLUG connection!
hotplug: ACTION=add
complete ACTION=add
HOTPLUG connection lost!
hotplug: {'ACTION': 'add', 'PHYSDEVPATH': '-', 'DEVPATH': '/block/sdc/sdc1'}
couldn't read model: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys-/model'
mountpoint /media/usb/
description External Storage sdc
force_mounted True




reboot with device attached and try again.

[twol]

looks like the hotplug of the device failed to mount


hotplug: {'ACTION': 'add', 'PHYSDEVPATH': '-', 'DEVPATH': '/block/sdc'}
couldn't read model: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys-/model'
new Harddisk sdc -> /dev/sdc -> /dev/sdc
HOTPLUG connection!
hotplug: ACTION=add
complete ACTION=add
HOTPLUG connection lost!
hotplug: {'ACTION': 'add', 'PHYSDEVPATH': '-', 'DEVPATH': '/block/sdc/sdc1'}
couldn't read model: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys-/model'
mountpoint /media/usb/
description External Storage sdc
force_mounted True




reboot with device attached and try again.

I restored to the same set up and repeated the image backup successfully, but by then I had also cleaned out 4 previous backups on the USB stick, so there was plenty of room - I normally keep about 3 to 4 backups, but I have been away for a week and hadn't cleaned out old backups.