My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

clem57 — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:11:04 GMT

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RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 06:07:37 GMT

I pulled the micro SD card and put it in my W10 computer. I tried to create a file on the card. I received no errors, however the file was not created. I tried to format the card/ W10, but received an error. I tried to delete all files. Looked like it worked. I removed and reinserted the card. All files were back.

Conclusion; micro SD card failure.

I replaced the micro SD card. Installed Raspbian-Pixel. Normal operation. Issue resolved.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:59:30 GMT

I do save files on the Pi. Its normal operation is allowing internet access to my control system. That works. I discovered the no save issue when I was writing a new application for the remote access. Excuse me for annoying you.

I can save to the USB. I always back up data and files to a USB. The root system is not saving on non volatile memory. The hi.txt file was created and displayed when I typed cat hi.txt. After I rebooted the Pi, " No such file or directory".

I can create, edit and save files. All the files operate normally, until I reboot or shutdown, then the files are gone. The files are only being saved to non volatile memory. It does not matter how I save the files, created via the server, remote connect to the Pi or from the keyboard.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

rew — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:52:29 GMT

If, indeed that is the day the "trouble" started, then that is a consequence of "something being wrong" and not the cause.

IF your filesystem has indeed become read-only, then rsyslog could be failing because it is refused access to writing the logfiles.

It is annoying that you made it sound that the pi was a workstation where YOU were editing and saving files, while now we learn that it is some sort of server.

Anway, if you do:

echo hi > hi.txt

what happens?

and then

cat hi.txt

And what does "mount" say? You have a root filesystem and an USB disk. Which one is not saving things? Or both?

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:56:14 GMT

Part of /var/log/messages. From what I can tell, this is when the problem started. The Pi is used as a fixed point controller and server. It normally does not get power cycled. All data and program changes made since July is gone.

Jul 4 06:25:07 raspberrypib rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.4.2" x-pid="463" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed

Jul 5 02:12:03 raspberrypib rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Tue Jul 5 02:12:33 2016 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ]

Jul 5 02:17:01 raspberrypib rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Tue Jul 5 02:17:31 2016 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ]

This 'action 17' message is repeated many times.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

jgerred — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:16:41 GMT

Another question would be where are the files located at that he is trying to save, some (most?) versions of Linux will clear out the /tmp directory at boot.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

jgerred — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:13:41 GMT

Good point. I have seen file systems go read only that didn't impact home directories. It depends on the layout of the SD card, then again, on a Pi it is probably just one big file system on the SD card. I was thinking in the mind set of a large hard drive with separate partitions for home, boot, var, etc, and should have looked closer at his df output.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

rew — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:56:34 GMT

Again... The process triggering the error would not be getting an error. But all subsequent writes would immediately fail with read-only file system.

I created a test read-only filesystem. When I edit a file with nano I get the following status message:

[ Warning: Modifying a file which is not locked, check directory permission? ]

Then when I try to exit and save the file, I get:

[ Error writing test.txt: Read-only file system ]

and nano refuses to exit. If your home dir would remount readonly due to errors you'd notice it.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

jgerred — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:27:08 GMT

It sounds like that for some reason at least one partition is being mounted read-only. Without the full output of the command it is difficult to diagnose further. Try running "dmesg" and look for errors there, also look in /var/log/messages for any error messages.

---Edit---

This is not the issue, as Roger Wolff pointed out, if the file system went read-only your process should throw an error and your editor would not let you save the file

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

rew — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:05:59 GMT

IF the system would remount your file system read only (due to an error), the write that triggered it has already returned and it is impossible for the system to retroactively forward the error to the application.

But all subsequent writes to a readonly mounted file system would fail immediately and you'd get errors.

The behavior that you describe sounds like the wanted behavior for a guest account. Could it be that your account is flagged as a guest account? (I'm not familiar how guest accounts work at the lower level so I'm not even sure that it is possible to tag a normal account as a guest account).

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:24:12 GMT

I do use the GUI shutdown before power down. I wait until the touch screen goes to just lines, then pull the power.

I tried the 'sync' commend. Same result, all changes lost. The files revert to a mid Jan 2016 version. Luckily I have a habit of saving copies to a USB drive.

I am considering formatting and reloading Jessie to the SD card.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:18:01 GMT

The very last line has '...flash,errors=remount-ro,...'.

I don't see any errors.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

johnbeetem — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 04:23:32 GMT

GNU/Linux first writes files to RAM buffers and later writes them to non-volatile storage like an SD card or Flash drive. If you hard reset or power down before the files are written to non-volatile storage, you'll lose the changes.

Use the "sync" command write changes to non-volatile storage immediately. Enter "man sync" in a terminal window for more information.

Use the "shutdown" command before turning off power. If you're using a GUI, there should be a power down command somewhere to shut down safely.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

jgerred — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 03:52:14 GMT

Check and see if the partitions are mounted read only for some reason. Use the command "mount" (minus the quote marks) and look for (ro) at the end of any of the lines in the output.

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

wadeelmore — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:12:50 GMT

pi@raspberrypib:~ $ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/root 7.2G 4.4G 2.5G 64% /

devtmpfs 427M 0 427M 0% /dev

tmpfs 432M 0 432M 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 432M 12M 420M 3% /run

tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock

tmpfs 432M 0 432M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/mmcblk0p1 60M 20M 41M 34% /boot

tmpfs 87M 0 87M 0% /run/user/1000

/dev/sda1 247M 552K 247M 1% /media/pi/USB DISK

pi@raspberrypib:~ $ uname -r

4.1.19-v7+

pi@raspberrypib:~ $

RE: My Pi 2 has quit saving files after a power reset.

clem57 — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 05:51:06 GMT

Enter the following commands and post output here:

df -h

uname -r

Thanks, Clem