@substring I just realised that although I changed the update option in the UI after a power cycle it hasn't persisted (so my last set of test results was invalid). Maybe I should change the updates.type value in the recalbox.conf file itself? If you agreem what should that value be?

Also on a different note, I have 4x 2GB ram sticks kicking about. I tried to add them in but Recalbox refuses to boot. Is there a max ram limitation (i have a 64 bit processor and am using the 64 bit build). Actually on that note, how do I know if my GT 710 graphics card has been installed properly?

lastly sorry for the delay - was away for the long weekend.

@substring said in x64 system running 18.04.20 doesn't work too well:

bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start

Note: I'm back on a 0.5 TB drive and it's running ok

Using username "root".
root@recalbox's password:
# bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start
+ test start = stop
+ test start '!=' start
+ SHARECONFFILE=/boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-part.sh share_internal
+ INTERNALDEVICE=/dev/sda3
++ cat /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ grep sharedevice=
++ head -n1
++ cut -d= -f2
+ SHAREDEVICE=INTERNAL
+ [[ 0 -ne 0 ]]
+ [[ INTERNAL == '' ]]
+ INTERNALDEVICETYPE=ext4
++ getMaxTryConfig /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ SHARECONFFILE=/boot/recalbox-boot.conf
+++ grep -E '^[ \t]*sharewait[ \t]*=' /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
+++ sed -e 's+^[ \t]*sharewait[ \t]*=++'
++ X=
++ echo ''
++ grep -qE '^[0-9][0-9]*$'
++ echo 7
+ MAXTRY=7
+ NTRY=0
+ test -e /dev/sda3
+ RMODE=INTERNAL
+ echo INTERNAL
+ grep -qE '^DEV '
+ MODE=INTERNAL
+ case "${MODE}" in
+ /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-mount.sh ext4 1 /dev/sda3 /recalbox/share
mount: mounting /dev/sda3 on /recalbox/share failed: Device or resource busy
+ mount -t tmpfs -o size=128M tmpfs /recalbox/share
+ ls /var/run/usbmount.delay
+ read RULE
+ touch /var/run/recalbox.share.mounted
+ logpath=/recalbox/share/system/logs
+ for bootlogfile in '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
++ echo '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
++ sed 's|/tmp/logappend-||'
+ destfile='*.*'
+ cat '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
/etc/init.d/S11share: line 289: /recalbox/share/system/logs/*.*: No such file or                                                                          directory
+ rm '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
rm: can't remove '/tmp/logappend-*.*': No such file or directory

@Substring sure, just installing it. Note i don't have a mic on this system - i can get hold of one in a few days, but for now it's just text chat. What's your server?

@Substring yeah i'm cool with that. is there a better way to do this rather than using forum posts?

@substring It's more to do with i have a 3TB HDD kicking around so why not use it. I'm flashing the 0.5TB as I type.

@Substring Ok I will roll back to my 0.5TB drive for now unless you think I can partition my 3TB to give me 2x 1.5TB internal shares.

@Substring My hard drive is now 3TB.

• When I started out I was using a 0.5TB hard drive on 18.03.30
• I upgraded that drive to 18.04.20 using the inbuilt UI in recalbox
  Then the problems started to happen
• I then changed drives to 3TB and used a fresh 18.04.20 image

Is there a maximum HDD that is supported?

@Substring Ran fdisk as requested

# fdisk /dev/sda
fdisk: device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 267349.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1           9       65536   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2               9         311     2424018  83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary

Command (m for help): q

@substring If it's easier I'm happy to roll back to 18.03.30 and wait for the next release for this fix

@Substring I've listed my drives and get:

# cat /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1978844k,nr_inodes=494711,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=777 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /recalbox/share tmpfs rw,relatime,size=131072k 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocha**et=utf8,shortname=mixed,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0

or:

# blkid
/dev/sda2: LABEL="RECALBOX" UUID="3638b519-b279-4f9a-981c-cce4de83472f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="BOOT" UUID="7DD8-6D51" TYPE="vfat"