Portsdown Software Update Failed

[dl6rcg]

Hi together,

I tried to update my Portsdown with the button of the touch display. After pressing the button the Portsdown picture appeared. No visible reaction of the system anymore. Connection with Putty to the RPi is possible but the console menu is not starting, only the command line is there.
Hence the file menu.sh is existing (...rpidatv/scripts/) I cannot start the menu.

My software version is 201809152.

Could anybody give me a hint what I can do that the Portsdown will work again?
Thank you in advance.

73 de Tom, DL6RCG

[G8GKQ]

Hi Tom

Three things to try:

1. You should be able to bring up the menu from the command line by typing:

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/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/menu.sh menu

and then try to update from (5) System Setup, (10) Update.

2. If that fails, go back to the command line and try a direct update:

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/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/check_for_update.sh

which should talk you through an update.

3. The final thing to try could be downloading a new update script, and then running it:

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        cd /home/pi
        rm update.sh
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BritishAmateurTelevisionClub/portsdown/master/update.sh
        chmod +x update.sh
        /home/pi/update.sh -p

Please let me know how you get on

Dave, G8GKQ

[g0mjw]

I had that problem too, I had to start again with a new SD card, apt wasn't working, just core dumped. I think something must have gone wrong with a kernel update.

[dl6rcg]

Hi Dave,

I tested your suggested points with my Portsdown but without success. I got always the message that the command can't be executed.

After that I downloaded the ZIP from the BATC github and copied these files and folders with WinSCP to the SD card. After rebooting luckily the touch display was activated again with software 201809152 and I had the possibilty to use the button for software update. Some minutes later the update was successful and my Portsdown is working perfect again. My problem is solved

Thank you for your help!

73 de Tom, DL6RCG