pretty boot stall on 1.5

[Jerry Vonau]

Hi Kevin,

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 10:00 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> Folks.
> 
> 
> I have a bunch of 1.5's that I purchased used from OLPC Miami that I'm
> prepping to go out through OLPC Canada into the aboriginal
> communities, and I've run into a rather strange issue.  Of the 40
> machines, 27 of them re-image perfectly well and reboot wonderfully
> both on F17 and F14 builds.  All 40 machines are flashed with Q3C07
> OFW.  I can repeatedly, using any of my 10 build sticks, reflash ad
> nauseam, and those 27 little beasts boot up perfectly.
> 
> 
> However, the other 13 always stall at the end of the pretty boot with
> all the little dots on, and the icon in the middle of the screen.
>  Doesn't matter whether F14 or F17 based builds, always the same
> symptoms.  Hang/stall once all the little circle of dots stop
> animating.  There are no SD cards or USB devices attached to any of
> them, and the batteries are all charged up and the machines plugged
> in.
> 

I've found when I was fooling around with powerd's code and blew it that
is what occurs, the video system doesn't switch from the DCON chip to
using the cpu. 

> 
> Being adventurous, i said to myself, let's do a check-mark key text
> boot on these 13 to perhaps ascertain where it is is hanging up.  Of
> course, when I do the text boot, the problem machines come up
> perfectly every time, again regardless of whether an F17 or F14
> machine.. When ltting it reboot without the check-mark key they again
> stall.
> 

Yes, the check-mark key turns the DCON off during boot, that is powerd
job to do once booted.

> 
> The serial numbers for the machines have no pattern in this either,
> some in the range go fine, others do not.  All machines are SKU 129.
> 
> 
> I seem to remember that there was a thread or ticket a while back
> about this, but I cannot seem to locate it.
> 
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
> 

One of the first things powerd interacts with is the network card, I'd
run the OFW's tests for wifi. On one of the problem XOs, once in sugar
can you connect to an AP? Can you send me the logs from /var/log off
list to have a quick look at?

Jerry



> Thanks,
> 
> 
> KG
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