something went wrong in the file system

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

  Mitch,

  Thank you for helping me on IRC.  The new installation mechanism
worked and I now have clean 616 build on my B4 with that mechanism.

-- Yoshiki

At Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:30:50 -1000,
Mitch Bradley wrote:
> 
> 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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