ubiattach fails with "bad image sequence number"

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 01:51 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:33 -0500, Jeff Angielski wrote:
> > If I ubiformat my NAND partition with an UBIFS image I keep on getting 
> > "bad image sequence number" when I try to do the ubiattach.  If I just 
> > do a plain ubiformat with no image then everything works fine when I 
> > ubiattach.
> > 
> > I was wondering if somebody ran into something similar.  The steps are 
> > so trivial it seems like something fundamentally wrong with either the 
> > mkfs.ubifs or the ubiformat.
> > 
> > I did not see anything related to this on the UBFI FAQ or documentation.
> 
> I believe this is an ubiformat bug. Thanks for reporting and sorry for
> inconvenience.
> 
> I attach and inline 2 patches which should fix this. I cannot have a
> possibility to test them now, so they are untested. They are against the
> latest mtd-utils.git (commit a4e502d99129da8ebba6d40b373a4422a175e9af).

Could you please try them and report if they fix your problem or not?

P.S. when we fix this, we'll have to tag a new mtd-utils version, since
this is a very bad bug.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)