Get systemd installed in a Balena image

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@garethtdavies I upgraded another of ours to 2.46.1+rev3 (for a total of three now) and once one of them encounters the issue, I’ll send you the UUID and enable support access.

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Hey folks, any news on this front?

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Sorry, your mail did not get forwarded, so no. I have forwarded the UUID to @floion and he will be looking into it…

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Hi. So can you do the following changes to a machine? Try to disable auto power save mode by doing this from your container:

echo “psmode=0” > /proc/mbt/hci0/config

and then

echo “pscmd=1” > /proc/mbt/hci0/config

Let us know if disabling auto powersaving changes anything

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I did the changes on the machine you shared support for until you manage to do them from the container

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Hi, it looks like that machine has been rebooted and the changes that I did were not meant to be persistent between reboots so now auto powersave mode is enabled again. So please do as I suggested above and let the machine run the code for longer so we can see if that made the issue go away.

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@floion we’ll make some changes for that and get back to ya on whether or not it works. Thanks!

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Hi. So can you do the following changes to a machine? Try to disable auto power save mode by doing this from your container:

echo “psmode=0” > /proc/mbt/hci0/config

and then

echo “pscmd=1” > /proc/mbt/hci0/config

Let us know if disabling auto powersaving changes anything

@floion - I attempted to execute the commands above in my docker container via the docker RUN command.

RUN echo "psmode=0" > /proc/mbt/hci0/config
RUN echo “pscmd=1” > /proc/mbt/hci0/config

While testing on a local development Fin I noticed the second command setting pscmd=1 did not take. I tried it out myself while sshd into the container and confirmed. Any guidance? I can change psmode, but not pscmd.

Toggling psmode:

root@2179fe0:/app# more /proc/mbt/hci0/config
drvdbg=0x7
idle_timeout=0x3e8
psmode=1
pscmd=0
hsmode=0
hscmd=0
gpio_gap=0xffff
hscfgcmd=0
sdio_pull_cfg=0xffffffff
sdio_pull_ctrl=0
test_mode=0
root@2179fe0:/app# echo "psmode=0" > /proc/mbt/hci0/config
root@2179fe0:/app# more /proc/mbt/hci0/config
drvdbg=0x7
idle_timeout=0x3e8
psmode=0
pscmd=0
hsmode=0
hscmd=0
gpio_gap=0xffff
hscfgcmd=0
sdio_pull_cfg=0xffffffff
sdio_pull_ctrl=0
test_mode=0

Attempting to toggle pscmd:

root@2179fe0:/app# echo "pscmd=1" > /proc/mbt/hci0/config
root@2179fe0:/app# more /proc/mbt/hci0/config
drvdbg=0x7
idle_timeout=0x3e8
psmode=0
pscmd=0
hsmode=0
hscmd=0
gpio_gap=0xffff
hscfgcmd=0
sdio_pull_cfg=0xffffffff
sdio_pull_ctrl=0
test_mode=0
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@scarson iirc that won’t toggle but nevertheless you need to export pscmd too in order to see psmode changed in /proc/mbt/hci0/status

And as an aside, you should not do these from RUN but rather from a startup script or executable you have in CMD

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@floion thanks for the help- we’ll be deploying these changes across our fleet today and we’ll keep an eye on stuff to see how it goes. Stay tuned!

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Hi. Did these changes help with the issue you were having?

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Hi, circling back to this. Did the changes help?