Bug 7906 - Controller freezes on firmware update and reboots
: Controller freezes on firmware update and reboots
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: SB Controller
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Setup
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: PC Ubuntu Linux
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Reported: 2008-04-20 01:49 UTC by Hendrik van Antwerpen
Modified: 2008-04-20 13:34 UTC (History)
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Description Hendrik van Antwerpen 2008-04-20 01:49:57 UTC
I have a Controller running firmware version: 7.0.1 r2269
Reciever works as expected, control from web interface works.

Steps:
1. Turn on the controller
2. I get update request for version 7.0.1 r2287
3. I start the update (not much choice)
4. 'Copying update' screen show, but frozen
   No percentage shown, activity indicator doesn't rotate.
5. Reboots after +/- 26 seconds
6. Back to 2

Tried:
1. Factory reset: same behaviour
   Factory reset worked OK
   I could configure Controller and Reciever
   Reciever firmware got updated when I selected my Squeezecenter as music source
   Then I got stuck updating the controller, as before.
2. Downgrade: same behaviour
   Used roommates 7.0 server, firmware r20??

Since I can't get out of the software update screen, my controller is pretty much useless now.
Comment 1 M. Sorsa 2008-04-20 11:14:20 UTC
I have the same issue with 7.0.1 r2269.

I can get out of the Software Update menu by pressing back button for a few seconds (at step 2 below).

The back button DOES NOT fix or work-around any of the problems that subsequently re-appear:

- when manually navigating to update menu and start update, the update fails the same way as the automatic one (as from step 4 onwards, see original report)

- at the Home screen the Choose Player shows my duet player correctly but when I select the player, it starts connecting (and seems to succeed since the normal Home menu content is briefly shown) but then the Software Update screen spontaneously appears on top; back in step where the Home menu contains nothing else but these 3 items:
Settings 
Extras 
Choose player

- the controller cannot select my squeezecenter or the squeezenetwork as a Music Source, which makes it effectively unusable for its purpose (the selection just jerks the menu screen and nothing happens).

I have also removed the files
jive.version
jive_7.0.1_r2287.bin 
from the /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/ at my restarted my squeezecenter
and I see it downloads the same .bin again from network
(final md5sum is ea4814f28c2f901488994d79a2a6339f, I think slimdevices should start to publish and sign these as well)

After this I can see the file download percentage in the controller but on the subsequent reboot and re-update it just boots at the copying step as described in the original report.
So, in all cases the controller returns to the same update after reboot.
Comment 2 Richard Titmuss 2008-04-20 13:33:37 UTC
*** Bug 7913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Richard Titmuss 2008-04-20 13:34:51 UTC
Fixed in SqueezeCenter change 18955.

Please also see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=293701&postcount=25.