UBI assert failed in ubi_wl_init

[Richard Weinberger]

Timo,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Timo Ketola <timo at exertus.fi> wrote:
> On 18.02.2018 22:31, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Okay. That's a bit odd. Maybe my analysis is wrong. Can you try the
>> following, replay the image to your NAND and attach again.
>> Then you should get the same UBI assert a second time.
>
> Of course I can but what would be the difference to simple rebooting? I
> get the assertion failure on every boot from the second one onwards.
> Before I commit to that one, let's look what I found recently.
>
> I already tried the replay but bumped into ECC errors. Due to that and
> other things I switched the kernel to Freescale IMX 4.9.74 with Boundary
> fixes. I reduced the size of the user partition to 1800M and got rid of
> the 'could not get any free erase block' and 'Unable to write new
> fastmap' errors. The assertion failures from the second boot onwards
> remained.
>
> I wondered why I'm not seeing the same issue with my smaller 64M system
> mtd. Then I reduced the user partition to 48M and the mtd to 64M and the
> issue vanished. Then I kept the partition at 48M but restored the mtd
> size to 1800M and the issue returned. If I make the mtd size 0x4e680000
> or smaller there is no issue. If I make it 0x4e6a0000 or larger the
> issue is there. Every time I erased the NAND and burned a fresh image.
>
> What do you want me to do next?

Did you verify the image or not? :)
I asked you do to so because the image you sent me does not make sense
and I'm not sure whether I can trust it.
Hence I asked for a double-check.

You seem to run in some wired corner-case, that's why I'd like to
inspect your fastmap.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard