Firmware update error: Cannot UBI create volume

[rgrs]

Thanks :)
I am able to flash new images now.

~Raj


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On Tuesday, December 17, 2019 10:30 PM, Adriana Kobylak <anoo at linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 2019-12-17 03:52, rgrs wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have a strange behavior where only one image is visible in webUI.
> > I get UBI "no space left" errors when I try to update/flash new image.
> > I dont have steps to reproduce and dont know how my BMC ended up in
> > this state.
> > How do I recover from this error? /proc/mtd shows all
> > partitions/volumes properly.
> > Is there any way to recover alternate partition without erasing SPI
> > from uboot?
>
> Seems there's an 'orphan' volume which you can manually delete to make
> space. A while back there was an issue at some point where not all the
> volumes were deleted during a firmware update.
>
> > root at obmc:~# ubinfo -d 4 -n 1
> > Volume ID: 1 (on ubi4)
> > Type: static
> > Alignment: 1
> > Size: 43 LEBs (2812544 bytes, 2.6 MiB)
> > Data bytes: 2767008 bytes (2.6 MiB)
> > State: OK
> > Name: kernel-7e7e1530
>
> This seems to be the 'orphan' since there's not a corresponding
> 'rofs-7e7e1530' volume, you can manually delete it with "ubirmvol
> /dev/ubi4 -n 1". You can also list all the volumes of a device with
> "ubinfo -a -d 0" for example.