Error message applying update

Fri Feb 23 11:52:36 CST 2007

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:01:27AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Tried to apply an update and seemed to put the machine into a bad state. 
>   syslog reported:

Not a bad state, per se. It just couldnt allocate the memory that the update needed. It needed 1MB of physically contiguous memory and could not find it. If you reboot your system and run the command right after reboot it should work.

There is another method of doing the update, called packet mode, which does not have quite as stringent of memory requirements. I have disabled this by default because I didnt have complete test coverage, but it works for what I have tried.

Can you manually run the update and see if that works? If it does, I'll release an updated version without the blacklist.

Run:
   dellBiosUpdate --force_packet --i_know_what_i_am_doing --update -f /usr/share/firmware/bios/(path to your system id)/bios.hdr

Thanks!
Michael

> 
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: firmware/dell_r: page allocation failure. 
> order:9, mode:0xd0
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405018>] dump_trace+0x69/0x1b6
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c040517d>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405778>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405875>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c045cf74>] __alloc_pages+0x299/0x2aa
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c045cfb1>] __get_free_pages+0x2c/0x3a
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<e00cd5b8>] callbackfn_rbu+0xaf/0x363 
> [dell_rbu]
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c05624b4>] 
> request_firmware_work_func+0x76/0xbe
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0439878>] kthread+0xc0/0xec
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0404c03>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  =======================
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Mem-info:
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0 
>    Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0 
>    Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  69 
>    Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  50
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 182 
>    Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  59
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Active:64441 inactive:40189 dirty:206 
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:2641 slab:14353 mapped:11406 pagetables:1422
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA free:2712kB min:88kB low:108kB 
> high:132kB active:6512kB inactive:1204kB present:16256kB 
> pages_scanned:33 all_unreclaimable? no
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 482 482
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal free:7912kB min:2764kB low:3452kB 
> high:4144kB active:251252kB inactive:159552kB present:494288kB 
> pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA: 144*4kB 11*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 
> 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2712kB
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal: 519*4kB 319*8kB 15*16kB 1*32kB 
> 0*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7972kB
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Swap cache: add 35051, delete 26707, find 
> 22843/24845, race 0+0
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Free swap  = 947600kB
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Total swap = 1012052kB
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Free swap:       947600kB
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 128641 pages of RAM
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 2371 reserved pages
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 68399 pages shared
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 8345 pages swap cached
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 206 pages dirty
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 0 pages writeback
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 11406 pages mapped
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 14353 pages slab
> Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 1422 pages pagetables
> 
> 
> update_firmware reports:
> 
> Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x01c2) - a05
>          Found Update: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x01c2) - a07
> 
> This is a Dell Latitude D620.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Haven't tried again yet....
> 
> -- 
> Orion Poplawski
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