#2374 HIGH Trial-2: Autoinstall 528 on B1 fails to activate

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#2374: Autoinstall 528 on B1 fails to activate
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  Reporter:  gnu            |       Owner:  cscott                           
      Type:  defect         |      Status:  reopened                         
  Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  Trial-2                          
 Component:  new component  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  DRM, evil                        
  Verified:  0              |  
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Changes (by gnu):

 * cc: neuralis at laptop.org (removed)
 * cc: ivan at laptop.org (added)
  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>

Comment:

 I retested this with 2GB SD card installed in the SD slot, "brown bag" OFW
 q2c19b from Mitch, and Build 536.  It fails in a slightly different way;
 there is no "leases.dat" file written to the SD card.  OFW "dir sd:\"
 shows it's FAT with four files, README, OLDBOOT, OLDLEASE.DAT and BOOT.
 OLDBOOT and OLDLEASE.DAT are my renames of the earlier attempt that is the
 subject of this bug
 report.  Note that this test was with the SD card NOT in a USB reader, but
 in the internal SD slot.

 I'll have to downgrade the OS build to get autoinstall to make a leases
 file (hmm, is this a bug?  If it didn't make one in the first place, it
 won't make another one because now it thinks that the OS is up to date.)

 I have tried booting (from NAND) and inserting the USB reader during the
 OFW kernel/ramdisk read process twice -- both times, the kernel hangs
 while printing messages within the first 16 or 22 seconds (after serial
 port msg; or after "Write protecting the kernel read-only data".)  This
 machine was not flaky under os402.

 I have downgraded to os528 so that autoinstall will run (from USB this
 time), to see if it will write a lease on the SD card via the USB port.

 After downgrade, I reran autoinstall to os536 and Mitch-special-q2c19b
 using the USB port.  I got the same result:  "cannot activate this XO".
 dir u:\ reports no lease file on the USB memory.  Perhaps this is
 happening because autoinstall is reflashing my SPI flash every time (due
 to some bug in the version numbering).  When autoinstall reflashes the SPI
 flash, and then decides to power off, does it always write a lease?

 I will back down to os528 and put q2c18 into boot/ and see if that helps.
 IT DID!  The machine finally activated.  I'm leaving the bug report open
 for investigation about why no lease was written during the previous
 attempts with os536.  I suspect that when flashing SPI, there are cases in
 which no lease is written.

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