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[socks]

Today I got a new online update for the second stage loader of the DM7020HD.

After booting the box hangs in the first bootloader with error message '2nd failed!'.

I reflashed the second stage bootloader using latest DreamUP with USB cable and this nfi file: http://www.dreamboxu...dm7020hd-84.nfi

Afterwards the box was booting correctly again.

 

Then I manually installed the update again:

root@dm7020hd:~# opkg --force-reinstall install dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd
Downloading http://downloads.pli-images.org/feeds/openpli-4/dm7020hd/dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd_88-r18.0.0_dm7020hd.ipk.
Reinstalling dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd (88-r18.0.0) on root.
Configuring dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd.
Erasing 256 Kibyte @ 100000 - 100% complete.
nandwrite: invalid option -- 'o'
BusyBox v1.22.1 (2014-06-02 09:29:42 CEST) multi-call binary.

Usage: nandwrite [-p] [-s ADDR] MTD_DEVICE [FILE]

Write to MTD_DEVICE

        -p      Pad to page size
        -s ADDR Start address

As you can see the flash gets erased successfully but the following flash write fails because nandwrite does not support the option '-o'.

I extracted the ipk file and this is the postinst command:

        if [ -z "$D" ] && grep -q '\<dm7020hd\>' /proc/stb/info/model; then
                if [ -f /tmp/secondstage-dm7020hd.bin ]; then
                        # first try mtd-utils, and fallback to busybox applets
                        flash_erase /dev/mtd1 0 0 2>/dev/null || flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1
                        nandwrite -m -n -o /dev/mtd1 /tmp/secondstage-dm7020hd.bin 2>/dev/null || nandwrite -o /dev/mtd1 /tmp/secondstage-dm7020hd.bin
                        rm /tmp/secondstage-dm7020hd.bin
                fi
        fi

The first nandwrite command works only when mtd-utils is installed (which I hadn't). The second one works only if you remove the '-o' option and replace it with the '-p' option.

I've tried both commands and both were successful.

So either the the dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd package should depend on mtd-utils or '-o' is replaced with '-p' in postinst.

 

So for the moment do NOT make an automatic update on your DM7020HD! It will not boot afterwards!

As a workaround you can install mtd-utils manually before upgrading the bootloader:

root@dm7020hd:/media/hdd# opkg install mtd-utils
Installing mtd-utils (1.5.1+git0+9f107132a6-r0) on root.
Downloading http://downloads.pli-images.org/feeds/openpli-4/mips32el/mtd-utils_1.5.1+git0+9f107132a6-r0_mips32el.ipk.
Configuring mtd-utils.

Please could one of the devs update the repository accordingly?

 

Thank you.

[rolf2]

same problem with dm500hd

 

http://forums.openpl...hd/#entry456376

[spartak73]

same problem with DM800HDse. 2nd failed after reboot.

[siemed]

Same problem with 7020hd. Only did a software update from the menu.

[WanWizard]

Why did you ignore the big fat warning not to update the box?

[siemed]

I did it from the menu on the Dreambox, so there was no warning.

[WanWizard]

Hmm... Odd. Perhaps the warning mechanism was broken when the "unstable message" screen was added?

[Meega]

Nope, because I saw it, when try to update my dm8000.

[littlesat]

So the message was there?
Problqble I should conaider when it iis there that you simply completely blicked to upgrade via the ui!

Edited by littlesat, 22 November 2014 - 23:50.

[rolf2]

instead of lecture about fat warnings - just remove broken secondstage loaders from openpli feeds .

[athoik]

There is no broken second stage. It's busybox nandwrite that doesn't support OOB.

Install mtd-utils and everything will run smooth. Until new images appear.

[rolf2]

If installing secondstage ipk bricks the box - for simple user it's broken.

as OP wrote :

 

 

So either the the dreambox-secondstage-dm7020hd package should depend on mtd-utils or '-o' is replaced with '-p' in postinst.

[socks]

Looks like this has already been fixed on friday:

 

http://sourceforge.n...5a53c2419928a9/

[littlesat]

Indeed... nut currently we have issues with our build server we're working on... So no new images are build yet

[Leshiy_D]

Updated its 7020HD , all okay . Updated 15 minutes

[sebsto]

Thank you for the root cause analysis.  I was hit by this on DM800se too.  Now recovered :-)

[fcs001fcs]

Today, 29 Nov, I tried update via GUI menu on my DM7020HD and there is a warning that image is unstable/not working correctly.

 

Has the problem been corrected and just the warning was not turned off by Devs? Is it still not to be updated due to the original problem?

 

Seems from reading prior posts that all is fixed now.

Edited by fcs001fcs, 29 November 2014 - 11:07.

[Erik Slagter]

It seems the problem has been resolved (we cannot test ourselves though).

[fcs001fcs]

It seems the problem has been resolved (we cannot test ourselves though).

 

My experience on a DM7020HD:

 

Tried GUI update via menu “Update and Ask to reboot”. Listed 256 packages as needing update.

Updated for a few minutes but then box froze (progress bar stopped and PIP froze) on “enigma2-fonts” package (do not know if package is relevant). Left it for about 2 minutes but no change, still frozen.

 

Powered down via power switch and restarted with channel up button to install new firmware from scratch via web browser.

I have the autobackup plugin installed that really helps on automatically reinstalling plugins and OSCAM config setup for my home network of DMs. Note that I specifically select the OSCAM config files for backup by adding the config directory to be backed up.

 

Did a fresh install of today’s OpenPLi 4 image and all went OK. Took about 5 minutes to reboot. I uninstalled a few plugins I do not use that are part of the default OpenPLi image but all my specific plugins were automatically installed by the autobackup plugin on reboot.

 

Seems to be working OK.

 

Did a check via GUI for update and 1 package (openwebif) is listed as to be updated. Did not update as I will wait a few days to see if all is still OK.

[Erik Slagter]

The out of date enigma-fonts is another issue, all models have this problem.