Solved: Software install on E20 via serial cable

hazel.archer · ‎10-15-2012

Hi folks

I am trying to fix and E20 that won't boot. I have managed to obtaint the appropriate serial cable and can log into it as root using teraterm, but am stuck as to what to do next. Any ideas what the appropriate console commands are?

Thanks

Danny De Ridder · ‎10-17-2012

Got on the phone with Hazel and entered the system in u-boot mode by hitting key when booting up.

Set the u-boot environment to get into root :

setenv otherbootargs allowroot

So we could finally login to the system via root. admin did not work because the E20 crashed.

We looked at the /var/log/eventlog/all.log file and noticed one of the DSPs is not responding : hardware issue. Not possible to fix this but RMA the unit. Sorry for this...

[Snoopy:/var/log/eventlog] $ cat all.log
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: FPGA programmed OK
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Product information
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Snoopy
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Board revision: G
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Thread LedTask has TID 1746
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: TE4.1.1.273710
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: SVN Revision 273710
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Serial number: A1AA02A00080
Oct 17 11:58:04 (none) main: Program audio dsps [1]
Oct 17 11:58:13 (none) osd: WARNING :  Cannot parse value [ "" ] in "Config/Video/Selfview" to boolean. Treating it as "false".
Oct 17 11:58:13 (none) osd: WARNING :  TState has no desktop set
Oct 17 11:58:13 (none) osd: WARNING :  TState has no desktop set
Oct 17 11:58:15 (none) main: shmemLoadDsp: Program video dsp
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) main: shmemLoadDsp: Program video dsp finished
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) video: DSP ID 1
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) video: Product information
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) video: Snoopy
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) video: Board revision: G
Oct 17 11:58:17 (none) main: Thread persistDb has TID 1763
Oct 17 11:58:18 (none) main: Thread persistDb has TID 1764
Oct 17 11:58:18 (none) video: fsm_procSetup: Open Interprocessor comm devs.
Oct 17 11:58:18 (none) video: shmemdsp: Waiting for arm to init shmem area. (119)
Oct 17 11:58:18 (none) main: Thread ShmemRx has TID 1765
Oct 17 11:58:19 (none) video: shmemdsp: Waiting for arm to init shmem area. (118)
Oct 17 11:58:20 (none) video: fsm_procSetup: Initialize data structures.
Oct 17 11:58:20 (none) video: fsm_procSetup: Create all FSM tasks[6].
Oct 17 11:58:20 (none) video: fsm_procSetup: Check for system synchronization.
Oct 17 11:58:20 (none) video: registerAndWaitForNotify: Sending id = SYSTEM_VIDEO0(1) (16777216)
Oct 17 11:58:20 (none) video: Wait for timeout, or incoming message
Oct 17 11:58:28 (none) main: uhpihost: Can't boot dsp 0
Oct 17 11:58:28 (none) main: uhpihost: Can't boot all dsps
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: Received signal SIGSEGV (11) in thread 0x4082a4c0, TID 1713
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: Illegal memory access at: 0xebffffb2
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: Registers:
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: R0:     4010414c R1:   ebffffb2 R2:    bea1569c R3:   000000c8
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: R4:     40100000 R5:   bea1569c R6:    ebffffb2 R7:   bea1569c
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: R8:     bea156c8 R9:   ffffbd0c R10:   bea156cc FP:   bea199e4
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: PC:     400e8864 IP:   400e8818 SP:    bea15640 LR:   400e9790
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: ERR:    00000005 CPSR: 60000010 FAULT: ebffffb2 TRAP: 0000000e
Oct 17 11:58:29 (none) main: OLDMSK: 00000000

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mubakhta · ‎10-15-2012

Hi Hazel,

First you will need to enable the root account before you can login.

Login using an admin account and type the following command:

rootsettings on

Once you have activated the account, you can then login using the username root.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mubashshir Akhtar

Thanks Mubashshir Akhtar

mubakhta · ‎10-15-2012

In case your E20 is not booting up at all, then you will not be able to login to its root account. In that case, it would not be possible for you to restore the E20 to a working image. What you can try is to do a factory reset using the buttons on the E20 device.

Regards,

Mubashshir Akhtar

Thanks Mubashshir Akhtar

Danny De Ridder · ‎10-15-2012

Hello,

can you, from within root execute the command selectsw?

Normally, you should have 2 images on the E20, image1 and image2. One will show up as being the active one.

[C20-in-TP-lab-CUCM-controlled:~] $ selectsw

image1

image2 [ACTIVE] [SELECTED]

[C20-in-TP-lab-CUCM-controlled:~] $

So in my case, image2 is active.

See what the command returns in your case. The active image is bad in your case. Does not boot. So you can try the other image. To do this, e.g. when I want to select image1, I would do :

[C20-in-TP-lab-CUCM-controlled:~] $ selectsw image1

And then reboot your E20?

Hopefully the "other" backup image will work in your case.

Can you log the boot sequence to a file when you are connected on the console?

Tomonori Taniguchi · ‎10-15-2012

If switching software (as Danny mention) won’t help, try removing the configuration file and local phonebook file in case system boot failure due to corrupted files.

Login as “root” user from console
Remove config.db file under /mnt/base/active folder by executing “rm /mnt/base/active/config.db” command
Remove pb.xml file under /config by executing “rm /config/pb.xml” command
Restart E20 by executing “reboot” command.

hazel.archer · ‎10-16-2012

Hi folks

Thanks for the advice. Based on your posts I have deleted config.db and pb.xml from image 1 and rebooted with no success. I have alos swapped to image 2 using the selectsw command and repeated the delete of config.db and pb.xml. Unfortunatly neither of these has lead to a successful reboot. For info, the log of the latest reboot is below.

Thanks for all your help.

Hazel

login: root

Last login: Tue Oct 16 09:26:24 on ttyS0

[NHSGGC-Calum-Morrison:~] $ rm /mnt/base/active/config.db

[NHSGGC-Calum-Morrison:~] $ rm /config/pb.xml

[NHSGGC-Calum-Morrison:~] $ reboot

Broadcast message from root (ttyS0) (Tue Oct 16 09:28:25 2012):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6

INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal

[NHSGGC-Calum-Morrison:~] $ umount: /mnt/base/image2/tools.img busy - remounted read-only

umount: /mnt/base/image2/extra.img busy - remounted read-only

umount: /dev/mtdblock1 busy - remounted read-only

umount: /var: device is busy

umount: none busy - remounted read-only

shutdown: sending all processes the TERM signal...

shutdown: sending all processes shutdown: turning off swap

swapoff: No such file or directory

shutdown: unmounting all file systems

umount: /mnt/base: device is busy

Restarting system.ce is busy

Please staþ

U-Boot 2009.03-37 (Feb 22 2011 - 13:38:41)

I2C: ready

DRAM: 256 MB

Flash: 4 MB

NAND: HW ECC on 1024 MiB

RTC: 2012-10-16 (Tuesday) - Time: 8:28:39

Ethernet PHY: Marvell

Snoopy

Rev: G

SN: A1AA02A00080

MAC: 00:50:60:04:05:67

ARM Clock :- 337MHz

DSP Clock :- 675MHz

DDR Clock :- 310MHz

Hold down '4' and '6' when power up to toggle image

yaffs: Mounting /flash

yaffs: restored from checkpoint

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

lcdpower: 1

lcdbacklight:1

Copy /flash/active/rootfs to 0x87000000... [DONE]

Copy /flash/active/kernel to 0x85000000... [DONE]

save exit: isCheckpointed 1

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 85000000 ...

Image Name: Linux-2.6.23.12-104

Created: 2010-09-03 10:59:49 UTC

Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)

Data Size: 1736996 Bytes = 1.7 MB

Load Address: 80008000

Entry Point: 80008000

Verifying Checksum ... OK

## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 87000000 ...

Image Name: TANDBERG rootfs

Created: 2010-09-06 10:33:02 UTC

Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)

Data Size: 7768103 Bytes = 7.4 MB

Load Address: 00000000

Entry Point: 00000000

Verifying Checksum ... OK

Loading Kernel Image ... OK

OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux............................................................................................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.6.23.12-104 (hgb@prentice.rd.tandberg.com) (gcc version 4.2.2) #1 PREEMPT Fri Sep 3 12:59:38 CEST 2010

CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177

Machine: DaVinciHD Tandberg Snoopy

Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback

DM6467

CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache

CPU0: I cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 128 sets

CPU0: D cache: 8192 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 64 sets

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 48768

Kernel command line: basemount=/dev/mtdblock1 mem=192M@0x80000000 console=ttyS0,115200 eth=00:50:60:04:05:67 mainboard=0x06 u-boot=2009.03-37

TI DaVinci EMAC: Kernel Boot params Eth address: 00:50:60:04:05:67

PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)

davinci_timer_init: PLL1_PLLM 24

Console: colour dummy device 80x30

Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Memory: 192MB = 192MB total

Memory: 183552KB available (3176K code, 220K data, 132K init)

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok

NET: Registered protocol family 16

Generic PHY: Registered new driver

SCSI subsystem initialized

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

usbcore: registered new device driver usb

musb_hdrc: version 2.2a/db-0.5.2, cppi-dma, host, debug=0

musb_hdrc: USB Host mode controller at cc800000 using DMA, IRQ 13

musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: MUSB HDRC host driver

musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected

DaVinci I2C DEBUG: 12:59:12 Sep 3 2010

NET: Registered protocol family 2

Time: timer0_1 clocksource has been installed.

Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0

IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)

TCP reno registered

checking if image is initramfs... it is

Freeing initrd memory: 7586K

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)

Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled

serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c20000 (irq = 40) is a ST16654

console [ttyS0] enabled

serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c20400 (irq = 41) is a ST16654

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65000K size 1024 blocksize

TI DaVinci EMAC: MAC address is 00:50:60:04:05:67

TI DaVinci EMAC Linux version updated 5.0

TI DaVinci EMAC: Installed 1 instances.

Linux video capture interface: v2.00

Capture buffer 0 at 0x87400000, mapped to 0xc7400000, size 1925k

Capture buffer 1 at 0x80600000, mapped to 0xc0600000, size 1925k

Capture buffer 2 at 0x87000000, mapped to 0xc7000000, size 1925k

Capture buffer 3 at 0x87200000, mapped to 0xc7200000, size 1925k

snoopyfb0: Framebuffer at 0x87c01000, mapped to 0xc7c01000, size 1920k

snoopyfb0: Framebuffer registered on snoopy card

Display buffer 0 at 0x87800000, mapped to 0xc7800000, size 3847k

Display buffer 1 at 0x86c00000, mapped to 0xc6c00000, size 3847k

Display buffer 2 at 0x86800000, mapped to 0xc6800000, size 3847k

Display buffer 3 at 0x86400000, mapped to 0xc6400000, size 3847k

Display buffer 4 at 0x86000000, mapped to 0xc6000000, size 3847k

physmap platform flash device: 00400000 at 42000000

physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank

Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040

physmap-flash.0: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.

number of CFI chips: 1

cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.

RedBoot partition parsing not available

DaVinci NAND Controller rev. 2.2

NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xd3 (Samsung NAND 1GiB 3,3V 8-bit)

Scanning device for bad blocks

Bad eraseblock 635 at 0x09ec0000

Bad eraseblock 663 at 0x0a5c0000

Bad eraseblock 1171 at 0x124c0000

Bad eraseblock 2278 at 0x23980000

Bad eraseblock 2295 at 0x23dc0000

Bad eraseblock 2344 at 0x24a00000

Bad eraseblock 2482 at 0x26c80000

Bad eraseblock 2908 at 0x2d700000

Bad eraseblock 3281 at 0x33440000

Bad eraseblock 3935 at 0x3d7c0000

Bad eraseblock 3971 at 0x3e0c0000

Creating 1 MTD partitions on "NAND 1GiB 3,3V 8-bit":

0x00000000-0x40000000 : "Flash partition 0"

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

USB Mass Storage support registered.

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

rtc-ds1307 0-0068: rtc core: registered m41t00 as rtc0

i2c /dev entries driver

DaVinci I2C WARNING: i2c: NACK detected

usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver

oprofile: using timer interrupt.

netem: version 1.2

u32 classifier

Performance counters on

Actions configured

TCP cubic registered

Initializing XFRM netlink socket

NET: Registered protocol family 1

NET: Registered protocol family 10

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver

NET: Registered protocol family 17

NET: Registered protocol family 15

802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>

rtc-ds1307 0-0068: setting the system clock to 2012-10-16 08:28:59 (1350376139)

Freeing init memory: 132K

INIT: version 2.86 booting

chown: cannot access `/tmp': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/proc': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/sys': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/sbin': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/etc': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/bin': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/boot': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/var': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/libexec': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/info': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/usr': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/share': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/lib': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/root': Function not implemented

chown: cannot access `/dev': Function not implemented

Mounting filesystems

loop: module loaded

input: cradle_sense as /devices/virtual/input/input0

Registered led device: arm_led1

Registered led device: arm_led2

Registered led device: status_led

input: serial_mcasp_driver as /devices/virtual/input/input1

video_dsp_driver: DspCom: IRQ: 45

yaffs: dev is 32505857 name is "mtdblock1" rw

yaffs: passed flags ""

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

INIT: Entering runlevel: 2

login: root

Last login: Tue Oct 16 08:30:31 on ttyS0

[tandberg:~] $ help

Tomonori Taniguchi · ‎10-16-2012

Seem base operation system is running but not Cisco E20 application.

And seem network is alao available, are you able to ping from E20 ([tandberg:~] $ xx.xx.xx.xx)?

If base operation system is up and running and have network connection, please follow below procedure to install E20 software using SCP.

Open WinSCP (for Windows PC, MAC has similar application for SCP file transfer) and establish the connection with E20.
(if you don’t know the IP address of E20, execute “ifconfig eth0” command and look for “inet addr” where you can find current IP address on E20).
Upload E20 software to /tmp directly (assume you are upgrading E20 to TE4.1.1, s52100te4_1_1.pkg)
Wait for complete of file transfer
Execute “mv /tmp/s52100te4_1_1.pkg /upgrade/pkg” command
SW upgrade automatically start (check software upgrade progress via console port)
After complete the software upgrade, execute “reboot” command from console port.

hazel.archer · ‎10-16-2012

Thanks for the extra help. I have found the IP address and managed to ping it. However when using WinSCP, it keeps refusing the connection. Does it matter that there is no password on the root accout? (However I have tried the default and that does not work either)

Thanks

Tomonori Taniguchi · ‎10-16-2012

Can you ssh to E20 by using putty or other SSH application to verify root acount accessibility (yes, possibly lost rootsetting)?

hazel.archer · ‎10-16-2012

This is so frustrating. Finally managed to get in using Win SCP. E20 keeps rebooting approx every 5 minutes, before the .pkg file was transferred. Finally seemed to get the transfer done in time, only to be to told that it had failed because the device was full.

gubadman · ‎10-16-2012

you can do a "touch /tmp/noboot" to stop the cyclic boot

maybe try uploading the file directly to the /upgrade directory if you can, then rename it to pkg once the upload is complete.

Danny De Ridder · ‎10-16-2012

Hello,

I think that's a good idea to do the touch "/tmp/noboot" from root or even, do a touch /user/noboot to make this semi-permanent. Also, it seems your main application crashes, so perhaps it is better to touch antoher file /user/nostart so the main application does not get started at all. Reload the codec, and then execute the scp and upload the file directly to /upgrade/pkg so the process which looks for software upgrades will extract the package automatically.

[dderidde-ex90-home:~] $ touch /user/noboot

[dderidde-ex90-home:~] $ touch /user/nostart

After the reload, the package should be installed, but then you need to remove the 2 files :

rm /user/noboot

rm /user/nostart

When you now reboot, all should work.

Justin Ferello · ‎10-16-2012

Danny,

I know this is kind of off topic, but any chance you could explain exactly what the 'touch /tmp/noboot' and the 'touch /user/noboot' and the 'touch /user/nostart' actually do? I am very curious about these commands, and I am trying to learn as much as I can about Linux.

Thanks,

Justin

Thank you,
Justin Ferello
Technical Support Specialist, ScanSource KBZ

Danny De Ridder · ‎10-16-2012

The files are used by scripts which are going to check whether a file is present or not and take actions on it. E.g. when a system crashes, it will reboot, but if the file /tmp/noboot or /user/noboot is present, the unit will NOT reboot automaticall, thus avoiding cyclic reboots. The nostart means boot the software, but do not start the main application. I did this because the system here seemed to be crashing all the time, and we wanted to upgrade the E20 via scp.

hazel.archer · ‎10-16-2012

Some progress. Have managed to upgrade the software by copying directly to the /upgrade directory as per the log below. However when the system reboots, I can no longer log in as root as it appears a password has been set. Has it changed from the old default? Also, the system still does not boot up - even with the new software te4.1.1.

[tandberg:~] $ [ 0] [* ] Obtaining lock

[ 1] [** ] Determining base directory

[ 2] [*** ] Determining install directory

[ 2] [**** ] Running early product-specific tasks

[ 4] [***** ] Cleaning install directory

[ 6] [****** ] Extracting software

[ 63] [******* ] Verifying data integrity

[ 64] [******** ] Copying user data

[ 68] [********* ] Copying release key file

[ 68] [********** ] Running product-specific tasks

[ 69] [*********** ] Running post-install hooks from installed package

[ 74] [************ ] Switching default installation and upgrade boot sw

[ 89] [************* ] Done

[ 91] [**************] Rebooting