opkg upgrade seems to have crashed my BeagleBoneBlack leaving my in U-Boot

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I’ve got a serial cable for my BBB so I have some idea what’s going on.

I’ve got 3 LEDS lit, plus the power LED. The LED closest to the ethernet is not lit.

I did an opkg upgrade command which seemed to complete successfully after a huge number of kernel module updates. Then I ran the command shutdown -r now and the BBB never fully rebooted.

I’m trying to find out if there’s a way to recover my system state from the uboot command as opposed to reflashing the system and starting from scratch?

Here’s the serial output from well before the reboot to the current state:

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The Angstrom Distribution beaglebone ttyO0

Angstrom v2012.12 - Kernel 3.8.13

beaglebone login: [11621.021596] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11622.031399] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11622.043194] tps65217 0-0024: Read from reg 0xf failed
[11623.054856] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11623.064733] tps65217 0-0024: Read from reg 0x11 failed
[11623.070599] cpufreq_cpu0: failed to scale voltage down: -110
[11624.800802] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11625.810536] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11626.818358] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: controller timed out
[11626.826572] tps65217 0-0024: Read from reg 0xf failed
Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes…
Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes…
Hardware watchdog ‘OMAP Watchdog’, version 0
Unmounting file systems.
Unmounting /dev/mqueue.
Unmounting /sys/kernel/debug.
All filesystems unmounted.
Deactivating swaps.
All swaps deactivated.
Detaching loop devices.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop7.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop6.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop5.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop4.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop3.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop2.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop1.
Detaching loopback /dev/loop0.
All loop devices detached.
Detaching DM devices.
All DM devices detached.
[95281.979070] (NULL device *): gadget not registered.
[95282.001717] Restarting system.

U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14)
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0
OMAP SD/MMC: 0
mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img

U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14)

I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND: No NAND device found!!!
0 MiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0
Net: not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw, usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1
mmc0 is current device
micro SD card found
mmc0 is current device
gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1
SD/MMC found on device 0
reading uEnv.txt
113 bytes read in 5 ms (21.5 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from uEnv.txt
Importing environment from mmc …
gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1
invalid extent block
U-Boot#

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Remove the SD-card. Or press the select-boot switch above the SD-card.

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I just tested without the sd card, and it booted into U-Boot the exact same way. I should mention that I’ve got my SD card formatted with two partitions, the first is FAT and has a uEnv.txt file in the root with the contents:

mmcdev=1
bootpart=1:2
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2
optargs=quiet capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN

The second partition is a e2fs (or perhaps e3fs) partition that I’ve been mounting as /home from an /etc/fstab entry. At least most of my work wouldn’t be lost if I have to reflash the board, but I’d like to not lose the settings that I’ve been working on.

My uEnv.txt file had the file attributes to mark it hidden and read only, and everything had been working fine until I decided to run the opkg upgrade command for the first time in a month.

Probably my best solution would be a sd card image that I could boot from and backup the root filesystem via tar to a CIFS share on my windows machine. Does anyone know of such an image?