something went wrong in the file system

[Mitch Bradley]

This sounds a lot like a problem that I was working on yesterday.

Can you go on IRC (freenode, #olpc) ?  If so, I would like to work with 
you to see if my latest firmware works around your problem.



Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>   My B4 with 616 build went into some interesting state.  I was
> copying some executable files to a directory (under /usr/local/lib/)
> from my USB memory and playing with it (for several iteration) from
> the Sugar console.  But I terminate the executable and left the system
> idle for a night.  That was yesterday.
>
>   Today, I was trying to remove the file I copied by "rm" command but
> get an error that says "No space left on device".  I try to reboot my
> machine (perhaps a bad idea) but it went into the "launching X loop".
>
>   I did force poweroff and now the unit doesn't boot.  I got OFW's
> "ok" prompt and typed:
>
> 	dir nand:\boot
>
> but it says:
>
>         jffs2-file-system
>         jffs2:bad read
>
> I saw some trac items about nand corruption and it might have happened
> to me.  I don't know if there is a way to salvage some useful
> information from my unit at this point, but if somebody has an idea
> (or just say it is a known problem) please let me know.  Otherwise,
> I'd just reinstall a build...
>
> -- Yoshiki
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