#3286 NORM Untriag: Battery problems and batman.fth problems (jffs2 bad read)

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#3286: Battery problems and batman.fth problems (jffs2 bad read)
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 Reporter:  ssb22     |       Owner:  mlj      
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  hardware  |     Version:           
 Keywords:            |    Verified:  0        
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 I have been having terrible trouble with my NiMH battery.  Sometimes it
 lasts as long as 3 hours, but more often it cuts out after 10-30 minutes
 when it thinks it has a nearly full charge.

 I let the battery charge overnight and then tried to follow the
 instructions on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Battery_Charging#EEPROM_Init - I
 did not get the "type any key to interrupt automatic startup" message, so
 I tried powering on with a game key held down and then pressing Escape,
 which gave me the "ok" prompt.  I got the message:

 USB2 devices:
 /pci/usb at f,5/wlan at 0,0

 and no USB1 devices.  I tried typing as instructed "fload
 disk:\batman.fth" but it said the file cannot be opened.  So I tried
 typing "fload /pci/usb:\batman.fth" but then I got the message
 "Unimplemented package interface procedure".  Then I typed "help" and saw
 stuff about u:\ so I tried "fload u:\batman.fth" but still couldn't open,
 and "dir u:\" got "Can't open directory".  So I guess OFW didn't like my
 USB key.  So I booted into Sugar, called up the console (Alt-0), mounted
 the USB key (it mounted OK in Linux) and moved the batman.fth file into
 the root directory of the NAND flash, then powered down cleanly, powered
 up again with the game key held down, and did "fload nand:\batman.fth" and
 it paused for a while and then said "jffs2: bad read".  The only reference
 I can find for that message is http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2292 which
 doesn't make much sense to me.  Well I tried moving on anyway and typing
 "bat-check-and-recover", and it just replied with "bat-check-and-recover
 ?" which apparently is what it says when you type an unrecognised command.
 I then booted back into Sugar and verified that the batman.fth file was
 indeed correct and identical to the Web version; the only thing that might
 have been up was a Control-D character at the end of the file that had
 somehow crept in, so I edited this out using the "nano" editor, clean
 shutdown, power on with game key, repeated the fload command, still get
 "jffs2: bad read".  So what do I do now?

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3286>
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