after a power failure in my appartment, the bubba failures to start again. It is blinking an has done so for over 12 hours!
The faq says it can blink for 30 min. But not this long!
what shall i do? continue waiting?
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it never stops blinking after a power failure!
Try to restart it a few times (just pull the power), and wait 1 hour every time since Linux may be trying to repair your file system. You can check disk activity (listen or look at the internal red LED), and if the disk is inactive for a longer period, there's no use wating anymore. Hopefully it will boot normally the second time.
Worst case, if your Bubba doesn't go up again, you can either:
1) Send it to us, we'll install an internal serial cable to access Linux and try to repair your file system. We'll do this free of charge (since we too are a bit curious on what has happened), but can't make any promises on the result
2) Make a complete re-install (as described in the users manual, p. 25), but note that this will re-format your disk, you'll loose all data!
Worst case, if your Bubba doesn't go up again, you can either:
1) Send it to us, we'll install an internal serial cable to access Linux and try to repair your file system. We'll do this free of charge (since we too are a bit curious on what has happened), but can't make any promises on the result
2) Make a complete re-install (as described in the users manual, p. 25), but note that this will re-format your disk, you'll loose all data!
/Johannes (Excito co-founder a long time ago, but now I'm just Johannes)
I unplugged it for a hour (to let it cool down, it was quite hot!).johannes wrote:Try to restart it a few times (just pull the power), and wait 1 hour every time since Linux may be trying to repair your file system. You can check disk activity (listen or look at the internal red LED), and if the disk is inactive for a longer period, there's no use wating anymore. Hopefully it will boot normally the second time.
Worst case, if your Bubba doesn't go up again, you can either:
1) Send it to us, we'll install an internal serial cable to access Linux and try to repair your file system. We'll do this free of charge (since we too are a bit curious on what has happened), but can't make any promises on the result
2) Make a complete re-install (as described in the users manual, p. 25), but note that this will re-format your disk, you'll loose all data!
Then it booted as normal!
Thank you for the help!
