Printer booted to parsing error after power cycle

General Discussion
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Basic Information:

Printer Model: Voron 0.2
MCU / Printerboard: Fly Gemini V3
Host / SBC Integrated
klippy.log

klippy.log (7.4 MB)

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Describe your issue:

My Voron printer was working fine and then while testing the sensorless homing sensitivity i had to push the emergency stop button and then when I power cycled the machine to get back to what i was doing, I noticed that none of my leds were turning on. So when I connected my laptop to the web interface I saw, “Unable to parse existing variable file” and nothing else. and looking at the klippy log i see a hand full of errors that obviously weren’t there just moments prior when the printer was working just fine. Could really use a hand figuring out my next step to getting this thing back on its feet.

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It can happen, when power cycling a SBC, that the file structure on gets damaged during a write process.

If you are lucky, you may can rescue data from the on a Linux based system. Also depends on how the system software is stored on that board.

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  1. Stop Klipper
  2. Delete /home/fly/printer_data/variables.cfg
  3. Start Klipper

Might be wise to follow @EddyMI3D recommendation and check your entire SD-card for errors.
Especially SD-card based system should only be restarted with the appropriate restart command and never rebooted “hard” as this has a high chance of corrupting the filesystem on the SD card and can even render your system unbootable.

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Are you pressing the “Emergency Stop” button on the Mainsail interface:

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or are you pressing a physical “emergency stop” which turns off all power to the printer and host?

Pressing the “Emergency Stop” on the Mainsail interface shouldn’t cause any problems/damage/broken files on the SD Card - but turning off the power to the printer without properly shutting down the SBC can.

@Quinn, I think we need to first determine what you mean by “emergency stop”.

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