Weird firmware update issue

General Discussion
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Today fluidd complained that my MCUs were not up to date. I proceeded to make and flash the firmware for my two S6 as always and everything worked as expected. I restarted klipper and was able to print all day long.

Then I rebooted and got the same error again (host=v0.9.1-576-ge520fb78, mcu=v0.9.1-471-gf2b382db aux=v0.9.1-471-gf2b382db). I upgraded them again this time from a clean klipper repository and it did the same thing. I can print without issue but as soon as I reboot the host I get the error again.

Any idea?

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Make sure to have set the 64KIB bootloader and verify that after the upgrade the firmware.bin is renamed to firmware.cur.

3

thanks for your reply. The bootloader is 64kib and the crystal at 12mhz.

I’ve always used “make flash FLASH_DEVICE” and worked flawlessly until now.

This is the flash message:

Flashing out/klipper.bin to /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Klipper_stm32f446xx_37004C000951363131343032-if00
Entering bootloader on /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Klipper_stm32f446xx_37004C000951363131343032-if00
Device reconnect on /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0
sudo dfu-util -p 1-1.3 -R -a 0 -s 0x8010000:leave -D out/klipper.bin

dfu-util 0.9

Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2016 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/

dfu-util: Invalid DFU suffix signature
dfu-util: A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Opening DFU capable USB device...
ID 0483:df11
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #0 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuERROR, status = 10
dfuERROR, clearing status
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 2048
DfuSe interface name: "Internal Flash  "
Downloading to address = 0x08010000, size = 22380
Download	[=========================] 100%        22380 bytes
Download done.
File downloaded successfully
Transitioning to dfuMANIFEST state
dfu-util: can't detach
Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode

After the update if I check the log it seems that everything’s in in order:

Loaded MCU 'mcu' 91 commands (v0.9.1-576-ge520fb78 / gcc: (15:7-2018-q2-6) 7.3.1 20180622 (release) [ARM/embedded-7-branch revision 261907] binutils: (2.31.1-11+rpi1+11) 2.31.1)
...
Loaded MCU 'aux' 91 commands (v0.9.1-576-ge520fb78 / gcc: (15:7-2018-q2-6) 7.3.1 20180622 (release) [ARM/embedded-7-branch revision 261907] binutils: (2.31.1-11+rpi1+11) 2.31.1)
...
Loaded MCU 'rpi' 101 commands (v0.9.1-576-ge520fb78 / gcc: (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1) 8.3.0 binutils: (GNU Binutils for Raspbian) 2.31.1)
MCU 'rpi' config: PCA9685_MAX=4096 ADC_MAX=4095 PWM_MAX=32768 CLOCK_FREQ=50000000 STEP_DELAY=2 MCU=linux STATS_SUMSQ_BASE=256

All MCUs seem up to date. But if I reboot MCU and AUX are back to v0.9.1-471-gf2b382db

4

Very strange.

Two ideas:

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I updated both the bootloader and the firmware from the ST application (it didn’t work from the SD card) and for some reason now it seems to be working. I noticed that the bootloader was updated recently… not sure if that was the problem. Hopefully this doesn’t happen again the next time there’s a firmware upgrade…

Thanks again.