Bootchooser - remaining_attempts

[Çağlar Kilimci]

Hello everyone,

I am still producing the same problem with
"global.bootchooser.reset_attempts". I would appreciate any ideas.

Sincerely,

2017-07-05 15:36 GMT+03:00 Çağlar Kilimci <ckilimci at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using barebox 2017.03.0 and my bootchooser variables are:
>   bootchooser.last_chosen: 2
>   bootchooser.retry: true
>   bootchooser.system1.boot: system1
>   bootchooser.system1.default_attempts: 99
>   bootchooser.system1.default_priority: 16
>   bootchooser.system1.priority: 20
>   bootchooser.system1.remaining_attempts: 5
>   bootchooser.system2.boot: system2
>   bootchooser.system2.default_attempts: 9
>   bootchooser.system2.default_priority: 15
>   bootchooser.system2.priority: 10
>   bootchooser.system2.remaining_attempts: 3
>   bootchooser.targets: system1 system2
>
> And "global.bootchooser.reset_attempts" is empty. I assume counters
> will never be reset as written in [1].
>
> So, here is the case that I think it has a problem. system1 has a
> problem that does not boot. Bootchooser tries system1 and fails a few
> times and then chooses system2. After successful boot of system2,
> "bootchooser.system1.remaining_attempts" is still 5. Every boot
> sequence bootchooser tries system1 and fails and then system2 is
> chosen. If I understand correctly from the documentation, it should be
> 0 and disabled and will never try at all. Right?
>
> Secondly, There is a bug: if bootchooser.system1.remaining_attempts is
> big enough like 10, bootchooser tries to boot system1 as usual and
> fails as usual again but it could not boot system2. I am sending the
> log below, as a summary "could not open /boot/barebox.env: error 24":
> booting 'system1'
> sorry, no nested mounts
> mount: Device or resource busy
> could not open /mnt/rootfs1/boot/zImage: No such file or directory
> Booting 'system1' failed: No such file or directory
> booting 'system1' failed: No such file or directory
> could not open /boot/barebox.env: error 24
> Nothing bootable found on 'system2'
> Nothing bootable found on 'system2'
> Nothing bootable found on 'system2'
> bootchooser: No valid targets found:
> system1
>     id: 1
>     priority: 20
>     default_priority: 16
>     remaining attempts: 0
>     default attempts: 99
>     boot: 'system1'
>     disabled due to remaining attempts = 0
> system2
>     id: 2
>     priority: 10
>     default_priority: 15
>     remaining attempts: 0
>     default attempts: 9
>     boot: 'system2'
>     disabled due to remaining attempts = 0
> booting 'bootchooser' failed: No such file or directory
>
>
> [1] http://barebox.org/doc/latest/user/bootchooser.html?highlight=reset_attempts
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Çağlar Kilimci



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