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"opkg upgrade" destroy Beaglebone

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Former Member over 12 years ago

HI all,

 

First, I have flashed my white Beaglebone to lastest firmware, then I was upgrading my opkg using "opkg upgrade" command in my beaglebone.

After a few minutes, my beaglebone freeze. It is keep restarting now. I can not boot up, it just keep restart if even it I replug it.

 

Has anyone seen this problem?image

 

many many many thanks

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    morgaine over 12 years ago

    Welcome to the forum, yizhan wang. image

     

    Yes, that problem has been seen quite frequently before --- it was often mentioned in the Beagleboard Google group and in the IRC logs.  I haven't been looking in either place in recent months, but because the problem was known and was in the process of being fixed, I would have hoped that it had gone away by now.

     

    Apparently not. image

     

    For what it's worth, the non-masochists leave Angstrom behind just as soon as they can, and switch to ... well, to anything, as long as it's not Angstrom.  The name begins with "Angst" for a reason.  Many things are broken on it, they don't get fixed (as you are experiencing) because nobody seems to be charged with maintenance, huge numbers of packages are missing, and Angstrom support ranges from minimal to outright belligerent.

     

    So while I sympathize with your predicament, the strategic way of getting out of it forever is to buy a 4GB micro-SD card and write some standard non-Angstrom image to it --- Debian Wheezy for ARM is a favourite of many.

     

    I know this doesn't help in a direct way, but I ceased wanting to fight that unhelpful distro many months ago.  No other Linux system I've used (and that's a  large number) has ever been so poorly supported and a stumbling block to getting work done, and as you experienced, simply broken.

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    morgaine over 12 years ago

    Welcome to the forum, yizhan wang. image

     

    Yes, that problem has been seen quite frequently before --- it was often mentioned in the Beagleboard Google group and in the IRC logs.  I haven't been looking in either place in recent months, but because the problem was known and was in the process of being fixed, I would have hoped that it had gone away by now.

     

    Apparently not. image

     

    For what it's worth, the non-masochists leave Angstrom behind just as soon as they can, and switch to ... well, to anything, as long as it's not Angstrom.  The name begins with "Angst" for a reason.  Many things are broken on it, they don't get fixed (as you are experiencing) because nobody seems to be charged with maintenance, huge numbers of packages are missing, and Angstrom support ranges from minimal to outright belligerent.

     

    So while I sympathize with your predicament, the strategic way of getting out of it forever is to buy a 4GB micro-SD card and write some standard non-Angstrom image to it --- Debian Wheezy for ARM is a favourite of many.

     

    I know this doesn't help in a direct way, but I ceased wanting to fight that unhelpful distro many months ago.  No other Linux system I've used (and that's a  large number) has ever been so poorly supported and a stumbling block to getting work done, and as you experienced, simply broken.

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    shabaz over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

    Unfortunately many sites suggest doing opkg upgrade :-( It is depressing..

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to shabaz

    I still have the same problem with opkg upgrade in November 2013.

     

    I am trying "Debian Wheezy for Arm" in the hope that it's not as broken as the Angst-rom distribution.

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