Re: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

[mw@wiimail.com]

Thanks Eric.

Could you describe a bit of what you had to do on that Seagate?
I guess I could try a few things before going after the cable...



On 2015-11-09 17:36, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:38:27PM +1300, mw@wiimail.com wrote:
> > [...]
> > Today I ran the first dist-upgrade after such long time,
> > and that brought in kernel 4.2+68 and udev 227-2.
> >
> > But now it is no longer bringing up the network interface on boot ups,
> > so I can't ssh in anymore.
> >
> > I am not sure if the problem is the kernel not finding the usb drive, 
> > hence
> > not completing boot,
> > or perhaps the udev rules changes brought by the newer version 
> > screwing with
> > the net config?
> >
> > The log files inside /var/log don't seem to get touched on boot 
> > attempts,
> > so it would seem that the kernel is not finding the USB drive?
> > [...]
>
> You'll probably need a serial connection to debug this.
> If you don't already have one, see:
>     http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/serial/
>
> (I don't have a QNAP device, but I just went through a similar process
> of updating a Seagate Dockstar from an old pre-DTB kernel to version 
> 4.2.)
>
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> Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u