Jeff, what is the size of your allocateble memory. Had to increase it to 4MB
to get it working.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:09:03 Jeff Angielski wrote:
>> The "ubi part" command is failing for me on my PowerPC 85xx board.  I am
>> not trying to do anything special, just create the partitions and
>> volumes so that I can try writing an ubi.img.  It spits out enough
>> information that it looks like it did work but it prints out an error
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> And of course there is the long standing issue of the reported MTD
>> number not making any sense.  But previous posts have discounted this as
>> an issue.
>
> Patches to fix/change this are welcome. :)
>
>> Here is the snippet of the error:
>>
>> UBI error: ubi_init: cannot attach mtd2
>> UBI: mtd2 is detached from ubi0
>> UBI error: ubi_init: UBI error: cannot initialize UBI, error -17
>> UBI init error -17
>
> -17 == EEXIST. Looking at the code (build.c) shows that ubi_attach_mtd_dev()
> is returning this error code in case the MTD device is already attached. Even
> though the UBI implementation should handle this without any problems. I have
> to admit that I'm a bit out of ideas what's going wrong in your case. I just
> checked again and UBI works fine for me with the latest version:
>
>
> => mtdparts
>
> device nand0 <nand>, # parts = 3
>  #: name                size            offset          mask_flags
>  0: bootloader          0x00100000      0x00000000      0
>  1: rootfs              0x01000000      0x00100000      0
>  2: ubifs               0x02f00000      0x01100000      0
>
> active partition: nand0,0 - (bootloader) 0x00100000 @ 0x00000000
>
> defaults:
> mtdids  : nand0=nand
> mtdparts: mtdparts=nand:1m(bootloader),16m(rootfs),-(ubifs)
> => nand erase 1100000 2f00000
>
> NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x1100000, size 0x2f00000
> Erasing at 0x3ffc000 -- 100% complete.
> OK
> => ubi part ubifs
> Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
> 0x000001100000-0x000004000000 : "mtd=2"
> UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
> UBI: physical eraseblock size:   16384 bytes (16 KiB)
> UBI: logical eraseblock size:    15872 bytes
> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    512
> UBI: sub-page size:              256
> UBI: VID header offset:          256 (aligned 256)
> UBI: data offset:                512
> UBI: empty MTD device detected
> UBI: create volume table (copy #1)
> UBI: create volume table (copy #2)
> UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
> UBI: MTD device name:            "mtd=2"
> UBI: MTD device size:            47 MiB
> UBI: number of good PEBs:        3008
> UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
> UBI: max. allowed volumes:       92
> UBI: wear-leveling threshold:    4096
> UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
> UBI: number of user volumes:     0
> UBI: available PEBs:             2974
> UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 34
> UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 30
> UBI: max/mean erase counter: 0/0
> => mtdparts
>
> device nand0 <nand>, # parts = 3
>  #: name                size            offset          mask_flags
>  0: bootloader          0x00100000      0x00000000      0
>  1: rootfs              0x01000000      0x00100000      0
>  2: ubifs               0x02f00000      0x01100000      0
>
> active partition: nand0,0 - (bootloader) 0x00100000 @ 0x00000000
>
> defaults:
> mtdids  : nand0=nand
> mtdparts: mtdparts=nand:1m(bootloader),16m(rootfs),-(ubifs)
> => nand erase 100000 1000000
>
> NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x1000000
> Erasing at 0x10fc000 -- 100% complete.
> OK
> => ubi part rootfs
> UBI: mtd1 is detached from ubi0
> Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
> 0x000000100000-0x000001100000 : "mtd=1"
> UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
> UBI: physical eraseblock size:   16384 bytes (16 KiB)
> UBI: logical eraseblock size:    15872 bytes
> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    512
> UBI: sub-page size:              256
> UBI: VID header offset:          256 (aligned 256)
> UBI: data offset:                512
> UBI: empty MTD device detected
> UBI: create volume table (copy #1)
> UBI: create volume table (copy #2)
> UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
> UBI: MTD device name:            "mtd=1"
> UBI: MTD device size:            16 MiB
> UBI: number of good PEBs:        1024
> UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
> UBI: max. allowed volumes:       92
> UBI: wear-leveling threshold:    4096
> UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
> UBI: number of user volumes:     0
> UBI: available PEBs:             1010
> UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 14
> UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 10
> UBI: max/mean erase counter: 0/0
> =>
>
>
> Perhaps you should try the latest version as well. Could be that this is a bug
> already fixed now. Otherwise you need to debug this problem yourself, since I
> can't reproduce it here.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
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