Re: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 15:38 +1300, mw@wiimail.com wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have been happily running debian on a Qnap HS-210 for about a year
> now.
>
> It was a sid install onto a USB drive, last updated just before the
> jessie release.
> So it was running on kernel 3.16+63 and udev 215-9 from around that
> time.
>
> 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.
It might be the same issue as this recent installation report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804351
I've not had a chance to dig into what is going on there. Often this
kind of thing turns out to be an upstream change to the modules
(different config options, splitting modules into more fine grained
parts) which requires tweaks to the kernel config, or initramfs-tools
or to the kernel udebs for the installer.
> 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?
That would be consistent with #804351 at least.
> I've also come across this link:
> http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096
> But I don't really understand FDT or what it all means to my install?
This is a third possibility. The version of flash-installer in Stretch
onwards should know enough to append a DTB when required, so I think it
is less likely.
Which version of flash-kernel do you have installed and what is the
contents of /proc/hardware (in whatever rescue environment I suppose
you are using to check the logs).
Ian.
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