[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Network not working after first boot success

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Jul 18, 2013 5:42 PM, "Rich Bayliss" <richbayliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 July 2013 15:38, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> > On 2013-07-18 08:20, Rich Bayliss wrote:
> >>
> >> Indeed. However the usage requirement of the system rely on being
> >> headless, and thus a power-pull is likely to happen.
> >>
> >> I guess the only way to rule this in/out would be run with a RO rootfs
> >> - and mount a sperate partition for user files. Do you know how I can
> >> achieve this?
> >
> >
> > There is some support in recent OE-core for read-only rootfs.  Search
> > the Yocto project archives for more information (I've not tried it yet).
> >
> > The more interesting thing is that I have systems other than the RPI
> > that are built using Poky/Yocto where the power is often the cause
> > of a reboot and I've never seen this error/situation occur!  Maybe
> > I can experiment a bit and compare the RPI build with my other systems
> > (I have both) and see why.  Not sure when I can get to it though...
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
> > MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> OK Gary, thanks. I have found an article which states including
> "read-only-rootfs" in the IMAGE_FEATURES will provide me with just
> that. I am building now, so let's see what happens.
>
> In my opinion, although a power-failure reboot is undesirable from the
> OS perspective, I would expect it to come back with networking up - or
> at least auto-magically reboot if they aren't for some reason.

I agree. It should be running correctly. And if it doesn't we need to fix
this. Power fails happen. So this is no excuse.

Well, it seems that I can't replicate this. Have network all the time. 4
reboots. Will retry tomorrow. Don't know what build I have. Will recompile
master.

ag
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