Problems during upgrade to 2.5.8-1 - cannot boot

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Platform information:

  • Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model B rev 1.2
  • OS: Linux 5.4.51-v7+
  • Java Runtime Environment: 1.8.0_265
  • openHAB version: 2.5.8-1

Hello, I’d like to share what happened during the upgrade to 2.5.8-1. It was to be a normal upgrade, I used openhabian-config as usual. But during upgrade process the system halted and after that I lost control of openhab, since the command line didn’t appear again.

so I physically shutted down the RPI. But now I’m unable to reboot it… I looked at the files, they appear intact. Is there any way to restore the boot files without losing my data in it??

I’d really appreciate any help.

Paulo

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So you have a monitor connected to the system?
What is the content of the message during booting?

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It’s halted in the rainbow screen…

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Could be a corrupt SD Card.

You could try to re-image & restore your configuration backup.

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Here is a loooong detailed article about reasons why Pi might not boot:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58151

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Did you find the root cause?
I seem to have a similar issue:

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I unfortunately didn’t find the cause, I could only solve is making a new SD card and restoring my backups… I think from now on I’ll always make a backup before going to a new OH version…

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I expected you to say this.
Actually I try whatever I can to avoid this…
Thanks for your quick response, though.

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  • Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model B rev 1.2
  • OS: Linux 5.4.51-v7+
  • Java Runtime Environment: 1.8.0_265
  • openHAB version: 2.5.8-1

I made a clone from the SD Card via openhabian cinfig tool. After that I made an update via openhabian config. After the update I made a reboot but it doesn´t boot.

Now it seems, both cards do not boot and I have no other backup (only the red led is on).

The problem is, there have been a a lot of data on the pi, (Influg and rrdj4).

Is it somehow possible to get these data and start from scratch, because I think, the cards will never boot on the pi.

BR
Daniel

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Try to mount the card on a linux system. Once the system partition is mounted you can create a backup of the data.

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Thank you Wolfgang

Problem is, I dont have a running linux system (which would be possible with the pi lying around)
but how do I mount the sd card? Or woud it also be possible on an other running openhabian system?

BR

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That should work if you have a sd card reader / slot.
What you also could do is to use a linux e.g. Ubuntu live system e.g. booted from DVD or stick on your PC or labtop.