issues after kernel upgrade in busybox env

Eial Czerwacki eial at scalemp.com
Sun Dec 29 07:40:46 UTC 2013


solved!
I was missing the ehci-pci module, thanks for the help :)

On 12/29/2013 08:36 AM, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
> Greetings Christophe,
>
> On 12/20/2013 12:07 PM, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>> Greetings Christophe,
>>
>> thanks for your help, see inline.
>>
>> On 12/19/2013 09:05 PM, Christophe Blaess wrote:
>>> On 19/12/2013 16:54, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a busybox version 1.19.2 built using buildroot running on a small
>>>> usb as rescue image.
>>>>
>>>> previously I Was running kernel 2.6.38.8 and all worked great, due to
>>>> drivers missing I was asked to upgrade the rescue usb image's kernel to
>>>> 3.12.5.
>>>>
>>>> following the upgrade, I've encountered two issues:
>>>>      1. I lost the ability to type the console, e.g. when I trying to
>>>> type something via the keyboard, I don't get anything, echoing to tty0
>>>> prints the output to the screen but doing the same to ttyS0, how can
>>>> I fix
>>>>          this? where should I start looking? the kernel diff between
>>>> the to kernel version doesn't seems to yield any usable info.
>>> Is it a USB keyboard and does it need to load a driver as module?
>> yes, all US modules are loaded, I'm pretty sure it is a usb keyboard.
>> I'm working on the machines in remote so I'll have to verify
> after verifying, the input are USB, I've enabled HID generic and raw
> support but keyboard still doesn't works, more over, I've applied the
> config on a server that we have with the same config (there are mild
> changes due to image compression diff) and it works, this means that
> something in the setup process might be wrong. I've checked major/minor
> diffs abut didn't found any.
>
> what else can be the issue?
>>>>      2. all the script that were executed in 2.6.38.8 ok, needs to have
>>>> /bin/sh before them or else I see this:
>>>>          $ /etc/init.d/detect_flash
>>>>          detect_flash: applet not found
>>>>          any ideas how to fix it?
>>> Does you script start with a "shebang line" (i.e. "#! /bin/sh")?
>>>
>> yes, as stated before, the same script that worked on the same busybox
>> but with kernel 2.6.38.8 exhibits problems on kernel 3.12.5
> this was "fixed" using a small patch to the busybox, not the best fix
> but works, unfortunately I cannot allocate time to fix it properly.
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