[Buildroot] init: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
Ossy
ossy1980 at gmx.net
Wed Jul 7 20:14:39 UTC 2010
Am 07.07.2010 20:59, schrieb Peter Korsgaard:
>>>>>> "Ossy" == Ossy<ossy1980 at gmx.net> writes:
>
> Ossy> Am 07.07.2010 07:52, schrieb Peter Korsgaard:
> >>>>>>> "Ossy" == Ossy<ossy1980 at gmx.net> writes:
> >>
> Ossy> Hi buildroot mailinglist,
> Ossy> After successfully compiling a whole rootfs and mounting it via loop
> Ossy> on some nfs export I started my arm ebedded device and ran into tho
> Ossy> following error after booting the image via tftp.
> >>
> Ossy> "init: I won't write compressed data to a terminal."
> >>
> >> What .config are you using? That string doesn't exist in the busybox
> >> init (or anywhere in busybox).
>
> Ossy> I'm using the configuration attached (you may need to ignore my custom
> Ossy> settings for the sheevaplugbased DockStar).
>
> Ossy> I mount the generated rootfs with
> Ossy> mount -o loop,ro br_dist/dev/rootfs.ext2 /exports/rootfs/rfs1
> Ossy> and export it via nfs. The Kernel supports rootfs over nfs and was
> Ossy> able to mount the filesystem via nfs. After that I get the above
> Ossy> mentioned error.
>
> You can also simply extract the generated tarball as root instead of the
> ext2 stuff.
I extracted the the tar archive into the directory, but I get the same
error:
[ 26.191501] Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.106
[ 26.203553] Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.106
[ 26.280377] VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:12.
[ 26.286293] Freeing init memory: 112K
init: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
init: For help, type: `init --help'.
[ 26.361526] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 26.367484] Backtrace:
[ 26.369970] [<c0028544>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0314e70>]
(dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
[ 26.378465] r7:c7820000 r6:c7820000 r5:4005eef0 r4:c03f89dc
[ 26.384207] [<c0314e58>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0314ec4>]
(panic+0x50/0x13c)
[ 26.391923] [<c0314e74>] (panic+0x0/0x13c) from [<c003e064>]
(do_exit+0x6c/0x690)
> Ossy> As Mitch already mentioned, this error comes from bzip2 (or maybe
> Ossy> gzip). So I guess there is some ext2 inline compression, which is not
> Ossy> compatibel with the serial console?
>
> No, as you mount the ext2 on the nfs server and not on your embedded
> box. Have you added any custom init scripts in your tree?
>
> What does a grep -rlis zip * in your /etc give?
ossy at debian-virtual:/exports/rootfs/rfs1/etc$ grep -rlis zip *
profile
services
sysconfig/sysstat
ossy at debian-virtual:/exports/rootfs/rfs1/etc$ less sysconfig/sysstat
# sysstat-9.0.5 configuration file.
# How long to keep log files (in days).
# If value is greater than 28, then log files are kept in
# multiple directories, one for each month.
HISTORY=7
# Compress (using gzip or bzip2) sa and sar files older than (in days):
COMPRESSAFTER=10
sysconfig/sysstat (END)
> I don't see anything wrong with your .config's right away.
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