dfu_upload error -84 when trying to backup images

Vikas Saurabh vikas.saurabh at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 07:12:47 CEST 2008


Try mounting the jffs2 file as mentioned in the wiki. Check the
mounted file-system.
-Vikas

On 8/17/08, Russell Sears <sears at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I tried this once and got the same error.
>
> Then I ran grep on the image file it produced with words that I knew
> were present in the filesystem like "headphone" "mono" and "state".  I
> couldn't find any words in the image, so I don't think the files it
> produces contain real data.  It could be that it's doing something very
> strange, like flipping bits or re-encoding blocks in the dump file.
> Since upload is known to be broken, I didn't look into it any further:
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dfu-util#--upload
>
> -Rusty
>
> Christian Weßel wrote:
>> I just have the same problem. But I wasn't in time to report it to an
>> existing ticket about dfu_util problems.
>>
>> I guess there are same problems with dfu.
>>
>> christian
>>
>> Am Samstag, den 16.08.2008, 21:36 +0530 schrieb Vikas Saurabh:
>>> I dont think this is related to the architecture. I had faced similar
>>> issue on core duo (i had put a comment on the wiki for the same). Btw,
>>> i didnt have to flash the back up image so i dont know if it actually
>>> worked out correctly.
>>>
>>> On 8/16/08, xiangfu <xiangfu at openmoko.org> wrote:
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>
>>>> some message no WIKI:
>>>>
>>>> 	 WARNING: Dfu-util is currently broken on big-endian architectures
>>>> 	 WARNING: Do not flash U-Boot unless you are sure you need to
>>>>          NOTE: Upload support is currently broken - #676
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dfu-util
>>>>
>>>> shawnzier at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> I'm getting the following error when trying to backup rootfs:
>>>>>
>>>>> dfu_upload error -84
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been able to back up the other partitions, but the rootfs fails
>>>>> every time at 258076672 Bytes. I think this is the size of the rootfs,
>>>>> but how can I be sure?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want to flash it with this image if there is missing data. I
>>>>> also don't want to try to flash it with 2008.8 if I'm not sure that it
>>>>> will complete. If it doesn't complete, will I be left with a brick
>>>>> until
>>>>> I can get it to complete successfully, or does it not write until the
>>>>> whole image is transferred?
>>>>>
>>>>> The host is a Macbook Pro CoreDuo (not C2D) running Gentoo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody had a similar experience?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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