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Re: NSLU2, Etch, and brick mode



I'm stuck too and lack of time made me connect the former slug's
external HD to my old power-consuming noisy sarge PIII as an emergency
exit.

bye
Olivier

Le mardi 30 octobre 2007 à 08:40 +0000, Rob Tucker a écrit :
> Samuel/Andrew,
> 
> Did you install using the regular installer, or using the manual method?
> 
> This must be more than coincidence. Im trying to think of what we must have
> all done the same to get to this point.
> 
> Im kind of stuck without my slug at the moment, and I'd rather not have to
> move away from Debian.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/10/07 06:33, "samuel@indermuehle.net" wrote:
> 
> > Same here, had a slug running etch from a regular USB HD for more than
> > half a year, all set up with disk labels in fstab etc. After an update
> > around three weeks ago it refuses booting. Haven't really had time to
> > play with it since then.
> > 
> > Zitat von Rob Tucker :
> > 
> >> 
> >> Oops, forgot to reply all:
> >> 
> >> I am having the exact same problem!
> >> 
> >> I was also using a 1Gb flash drive, but after the slug doing what you've
> >> described repeatedly over the course of several days, it eventually stopped
> >> booting completely. It just sat there with the Orange and Green LEDs lit as
> >> you describe.
> >> 
> >> I thought it might have been the flash drive at fault (it was a cheap one),
> >> but it does the same with 3 different USB hard disks too.
> >> 
> >> I thought it may have been related to a package or kernel module I might
> >> have installed, but it does it even with a fresh Debian install.
> >> 
> >> Rob.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 25/10/07 17:17, "Andrew Zbikowski" wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I've got Etch running on a NSLU2, it's only external storage is a 1GB
> >>> flash drive. Yesterday I was testing everything out before putting it
> >>> into production, and everything is running fine. For the final test I
> >>> let it just sit for 12 hours.
> >>> 
> >>> When I came back to it, it was sitting in what I can only describe as
> >>> brick mode. It was powered on. The Ready/Status LED was orange, the
> >>> USB drive was not lit up, there Disk LED on the NSLU2 was off, and it
> >>> was not responding to any network traffic. To get it working again I
> >>> had to power cycle it.
> >>> 
> >>> When it's working, the LED on the USB flash drive is lit up, the
> >>> Ready/Status light is Green (Flashes Orange/Green when there is
> >>> activity), the Ethernet LED is Green, and the Disk 1 LED is green.
> >>> 
> >>> What can I do to figure out what is causing it go go into this
> >>> unresponsive brick mode that requires a power cycle? My initial
> >>> guesses are that power management put it to sleep or that it crashed
> >>> or locked up, but I'm not sure how to figure out what is going on
> >>> without a console.
> >> 
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