[Archived] New Releases from ayufan! (0.6.XX)

[pfeerick]

This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by Luke. Edit Reason: now 0.6.41

Was 0.6.44 actually, Luke :-P

Maybe we should stop playing wacka-mole with the release numbers and just leave it at "newer" not-so-green-and-experimental images are available?

And probably also point out that people who have been trying some of the earlier 0.6.x images may want to upgrade to 0.6.44 ASAP, as there are some memory timing gremlins which may only be identifiable after a full memtest, and may cause data corruption long term if they are affected. Edit: I don't mean to be alarmist - it is certainly possible a lot of the images are fine, but some of the images do have memory related and timing gremlins, so even if it does boot, it could have problems that bit you later.

To test on a board with 4GB of memory, run (the 3G is the parameter that specifies the amount of memory to test, 3GB in this case):

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y memtester
sudo MEMTESTER_TEST_MASK=6144 memtester 3G 1

And if run with no error, your setup should be fine. If it spits the dummy with a load of

Code:

FAILURE: 0x6bcf4519d723f861 != 0x9430bae788dc3f86 at offset 0x00000008.
FAILURE: 0x9430bae628dc0786 != 0x6bcf45187723c071 at offset 0x00000010.
FAILURE: 0x6bcf4519d723f871 != 0x9430bae788dc3fb6 at offset 0x00000018.

you have problems waiting to happen!

Note - do not omit the MEMTESTER_TEST_MASK - it ignores tests that would trigger false positives.