Hello, I’ve been building images for raspberry pi 4-64 using the latest kirkstone branch of meta-mender. After updating the OS with an image built from this branch, I encountered an issue where the rootfs switch does not occur, and the system always boots from partition A (/dev/mmcblk0p2). Upon i…

Thanks for confirming. The fix has been merged now.

Thanks for bringing it up @nomtor0204 ! Just so I understand correctly, this occurred alongside bumping to the Mender Client 4.0? Greets, Josef

Hi @TheYoctoJester , this occurred alongside bumping to the Mender Client 4.0? No, this issue occurred with a build of mender-client 3.5.2. I have not bumping to Mender Client 4.0. The trigger was updating the meta-layer repositories. I noticed this issue when I updated poky from kirkstone-4.0…

Hello, I am also facing same issue with the mender client. After the upgrade using ‘mender install <.mender artifact>’, the reboot is not switching to the other rootfs partition. This issue is found with latest version of the meta-mender layer (commit id: 2eea9e6766f8b4c914c995fb1209f59c86643619)…

Btw, the latest official tag, kirkstone-v2023.12, should still work, so I encourage you to stick with that until this gets fixed.

Hi there, I tried with both kirkstone-v2023.12 and kirkstone-v2023.10 but couldn’t get either to perform a rootfs switch. Also attempted the MENDER_FEATURES_ENABLE method that was described in another post relating to this with both versions and had no change in the result. Any idea why this would b…

If the rootfs switch doesn’t work in kirkstone-v2023.12 for you, then it is probably a different problem, since it works for others. Unfortunately the PR is unlikely to help you since this only fixes the specific problem which was introduced after kirkstone-v2023.12. But otherwise yes, that PR is i…

Yeah after checking a bunch of different tags yesterday I started to come to the same conclusion as well that it might be something elsewhere instead (potentially something on my end). I’ve opened a separate thread for that.

Hi @kacf , I tried this PR . I have confirmed that the issue has been resolved. Thank you for your support.

Rootfs Switch Not Occurring on Raspberry Pi 4-64 with meta-mender Kirkstone

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kacf February 13, 2024, 11:50am 5

Sounds serious. There is a related discussion in this pull request; I couldn’t reproduce it at the time, but maybe it’s easier to reproduce with the RPi.

We’ve created MEN-7039 to investigate it.

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Rootfs Switch Not Occurring on Raspberry Pi 4-64 with meta-mender Kirkstone

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