[olpc-help] update discarded

[Richard A. Smith]

Patricia Campbell wrote:
> Hello,
> I searched the wiki &  forum & posted there but thought I would try the 
> direct approach (my post: 
> http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewtopic.php?f=1334&t=156094)
> 
> I have a g1g1 running build 650 stream ship.2 variant devel_jffs2 & 
> cannot connect to a wpa wap so I tried an usb update of the op sys to 
> 656. I had to update my olpc-update with 2 rpms
> olpccontents-2.1-1.20080131git7206e521fc.i386.rpm
> olpcupdate-2.5-1.20080214git3a975436b0.i386.rpm
> 
> I have the correct usb files os656.toc & os656.usb but when I run 
> olpc-update --usb I get a slew of ...failed i/o error (5) on the rsyncs 
> in a /tmp directory & then failed verification + update discarded & 
> rsync errors "some files could not be transfered (code 23) ...
> I have a lot of fedora/linux experience, any pointers from here ?

I just chatted with the author of olpc-update and he seems to think that 
the failed i/o errors probably indicate that there may be problems with 
your usb disk.

Usb disks have given us _many_ troubles.  I would verify that your files 
that are on the usb disk match with the md5sums at download.laptop.org.

e8742e5f7d27e76a02fd646b65cfa788 os656.usb
bf691a767a9a05390b03c17ed985e815 os656.toc

If you don't mind a clean install (meaning that you lose any data yo 
don't have backed up) you can always use the secure update from the 
firmware.  The secure update verifies that the image is correct.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child