Ubiattach problem after flashing an image

Ubiattach problem after flashing an image

[simon polette]

Hi,

I'm using the last mtd utils version provided by the git mtd
repository. I want to flash an ubi image built with mkfs.ubfis and
ubinize into a Nand flash. Once the nand is flashed, when I try to
attach ubi, I get this error :

# ubiattach  /dev/ubi_ctrl -m 2
[  968.980000] UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi1
[  969.000000] UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
[  969.030000] UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
[  969.050000] UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
[  969.060000] UBI: sub-page size:              512
[  969.080000] UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
[  969.100000] UBI: data offset:                2048
[  969.330000] UBI error: vtbl_check: volume table check failed:
record 1, error 9
ubiattach: error!: cannot attach mtd2
           error 22 (Invalid argument)

The ubi image I use is ok because I already successfully flashed it
and used it with this hardware. This error appeared since I upgraded
both mtd utils and Linux kernel, but even if come back to the previous
versions I was used to work with, this error persist. I think I'm
doing something wrong, but don't know where at all.
Any idea is welcome.
Best regards,

Simon Polette

Re: Ubiattach problem after flashing an image

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 15:58 +0200, simon polette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the last mtd utils version provided by the git mtd
> repository. I want to flash an ubi image built with mkfs.ubfis and
> ubinize into a Nand flash. Once the nand is flashed, when I try to
> attach ubi, I get this error :
> 
> # ubiattach  /dev/ubi_ctrl -m 2
> [  968.980000] UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi1
> [  969.000000] UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
> [  969.030000] UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
> [  969.050000] UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
> [  969.060000] UBI: sub-page size:              512
> [  969.080000] UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
> [  969.100000] UBI: data offset:                2048
> [  969.330000] UBI error: vtbl_check: volume table check failed:
> record 1, error 9
> ubiattach: error!: cannot attach mtd2
>            error 22 (Invalid argument)
> 
> The ubi image I use is ok because I already successfully flashed it
> and used it with this hardware. This error appeared since I upgraded
> both mtd utils and Linux kernel, but even if come back to the previous
> versions I was used to work with, this error persist. I think I'm
> doing something wrong, but don't know where at all.
> Any idea is welcome.

You did not enable debugging, as it is asked for here:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_how_send_bugreport

But I took a look into the code, and the following is error 9:

                if (reserved_pebs > ubi->good_peb_count) {
                        dbg_err("too large reserved_pebs %d, good PEBs %d",
                                reserved_pebs, ubi->good_peb_count);
                        err = 9;
                        goto bad;
                }

This means you created a too large UBI volume in the image,
and your real flash is smaller.

Try to enable UBI debugging, and type dmesg, then you'll see
reserved and real eraseblock numbers.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)