unable to run "flash_eraseall" on ARM target!!!

Murali N nalajala.murali at gmail.com
Tue May 4 08:28:58 EDT 2010


yes, permissions are clearly set.

-rwxrwxrwx root     root   17189 2010-05-04 11:03 flash_eraseall

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ricard Wanderlof
<ricard.wanderlof at axis.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2010, Murali N wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i have compiled the mtd-utils for android using arm-eabi-4.4.0 tool chain.
>> I tried erasing the flash using "flash_eraseall" on target but i am
>> getting the below errors!!!
>>
>> # sh ./flash_eraseall
>>    sh ./flash_eraseall
>>    ./flash_eraseall: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>> # ./flash_eraseall
>>   ./flash_eraseall
>>   ./flash_eraseall: not found
>> # sh /data/flash_eraseall
>>   sh /data/flash_eraseall
>>   /data/flash_eraseall: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>> #
>>
>> Why "flash_eraseall" was not found? i am running from the same
>> directory where i have copied.
>
> Have you made flash_eraseall executable? Looks like you've just copied it
> without doing   chmod +x flash_eraseall  afterwards.
>
> /Ricard
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Regards,
Murali N



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