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Support for Botic Linux driver

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#824
maybe they are mounted at time when the network connection is not yet established...

but you should have only one line per target directory. so either cifs or nfs, but not both

also it should work to call following from command line:
# umount can fail
umount /data/remote
# this should succeed
mount /data/remote

if mount does not succeed then check last lines of dmesg command
 
#825
miero said:
maybe they are mounted at time when the network connection is not yet established...

but you should have only one line per target directory. so either cifs or nfs, but not both
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Ahh. I didn't realise. Well the cifs command worked manually so I'll just have that one in /etc/fstab and see how it goes.

I suppose that when it does work as it's supposed to, it stores the database in the remote directory, so that one only needs to refresh it when new music is added?

Also, I'm trying (and failing) to get mpdroid to work. Do I have to edit the /etc/mpd.conf file - i.e. comment out the local host line like this:
#bind_to_address "localhost"
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?
 
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#829
Miero to establish wifi connection with UWN200 WiFi dongle I installed wicd-curses package which is bulky (~30MB) and consumes some CPU power
(two processes: /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py and /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/monitor.py consume about 3% of CPU)

Is there any other (more light) software for the same task? (eg. wifi network management). What do you recommend for Botic?
 
#833
This morning I powered up the BBB and got solid on led2 (activity indicator)
tried booting with botic v3 on ssd, various Debians would not flash or boot.

Tried booting with Angstrom_flash --- .img
BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.12.img

and got
...Partition 1 not valid on dev 0
...spl : fat register err - - 1Running uname_boot ...
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-botic5 ...
6223664 bytes read in 364 ms (16.3 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.0.0-botic5/am335x-boneblack.dtb ...
32313 bytes read in 44 ms (716.8 KiB/s)
loading /boot/initrd.img-4.0.0-botic5 ...
...### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

I did a reset button press and got ...
Running uname_boot ...
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-botic5 ...
6223664 bytes read in 364 ms (16.3 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.0.0-botic5/am335x-boneblack.dtb ...
32313 bytes read in 44 ms (716.8 KiB/s)
loading /boot/initrd.img-4.0.0-botic5 ...


Strange thing in the 2nd example it shows loading /boot/dtbs/4.0.0-botic5

I've attached two examples from the Serial console output results .....

Just cannot get the BBB back to a normal boot after trying flashes of Debian, which don't take off on boot with the Cylon led display like flashing before.
 

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#834
miero said:
bern: I do not use wicd. It is enough to just write something like this into /etc/network/interfaces

Code: 
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid YOUR-ESSID-HERE
    wpa-psk YOYR-PASSWORD-HERE
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You're right, less resource consuming way. I've removed wicd-curse.
Another two cases:
I found out that booting time of BBB with lan disconnected and only with wifi dongle plugged in is extremely long. I connected to BBB using serial-USB cable and it turned out that system waits about 100 second for lan connection.
Code: 
[    8.062422] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
[    8.087078] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1
Is there any way to set this waiting time shorter? How can I change this parameter?

Second isuee: Using serial connection I see errors:
Code: 
Debian GNU/Linux 7 botic ttyO0

Boticized BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-02-15

default username:password is [root:botic] and [debian:botic]

The IP Address for wlan0 is: 192.168.1.15
botic login: [  112.264303] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  117.273102] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  122.283971] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  127.925343] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  132.990782] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  138.663475] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  143.721929] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  148.752117] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  153.767088] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  158.784278] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
[  163.797783] asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
What could it be? And how could it be removed?
 
#835
1) to speed up booting without Ethernet connection use "allow-hotplug eth0" instead of "auto eth0" in the /etc/network/interfaces

2) this is reported when invalid parameters for audio playback is reported ... you can ignore this if audio is played correctly.

I assume your audio player (which one are you using?) tries to set unsupported parameters and then falls back to supported one.
 
#836
ichiban:

I assume old Angstrom images are not compatible with newer bootloaders, so you should try to use recent BeagleBoardDebian to fix your BBB...

1) download, extract and flash following image to SD card
https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2015-04-0...an-jessie-console-armhf-2015-04-09-2gb.img.xz
2) have serial console connected to BBB
3) boot SD card on BBB using hold button during boot procedure
4) check output on the serial console ... it should reflash eMMC and also fix boot EEPROM if damaged

if this fails, please paste serial output here
 
#837
miero said:
1) to speed up booting without Ethernet connection use "allow-hotplug eth0" instead of "auto eth0" in the /etc/network/interfaces

2) this is reported when invalid parameters for audio playback is reported ... you can ignore this if audio is played correctly.

I assume your audio player (which one are you using?) tries to set unsupported parameters and then falls back to supported one.
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Thanks miero.
A major improvement in booting time after changing lan parameters to:" allow-hotplug eth0".🙂

I cannot fully tested playing functionality since I'm still waiting for second batch of Cronus+Hermes. Currently I can only report things I see in the logs. 😉
As a player I use squeezelie.
The error/warning:
Code: 
asoc-botic-card botic: ASoC: machine hw_params failed: -22
is very close to the issue I reported in #736
Trying to play squeezelie I see:
Code: 
ALSA snd_pcm_hw_hw_params:327 SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-22)
Please see my initial Botic parameters posted in #736. Maybe I mess up something in these parameters...but at the other hand speaker-test was succesfull...
 
#839
# this will try to install packages from Botic repository
/source/boticize/02-install.sh

at the end ........

Configuration file `/etc/upmpdcli.conf'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** upmpdcli.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

I think I asked about this before but not sure what need to be the answer?
 
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