Dfu-util: Error during special command "ERASE_PAGE" get_status [SOLVED]

Firmware
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When building the firmware locally on Linux, I get the following error, which I think is different from the benign "download get_status" failure.

$ cd firmware/modules
$ make PLATFORM=photon clean all program-dfu
....
arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O ihex ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.elf ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.hex
arm-none-eabi-size --format=berkeley ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.elf
text data bss dec hex filename
246880 168 136 247184 3c590 ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.elf
arm-none-eabi-objdump -h -S ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.elf > ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.lst
dfu-suffix -v 2B04 -p D006 -a ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.dfu
dfu-suffix (dfu-util) 0.8

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Suffix successfully added to file
Serial device PARTICLE_SERIAL_DEV : not available
Flashing using dfu:
dfu-util -d 0x2B04:0xD006 -a 0 -s 0x8020000 -D ../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m-lto/system-part1.dfu
dfu-util 0.8

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Copyright 2010-2014 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
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Please report bugs to dfu-util@lists.gnumonks.org

Opening DFU capable USB device...
ID 1d50:607f
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #0 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 4096
DfuSe interface name: "Internal Flash "
Downloading to address = 0x08020000, size = 247052
Download [ ] 0% 0 bytesdfu-util: Error during special command "ERASE_PAGE" get_status
make[1]: *** [program-dfu] Error 74
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andyw/spark/firmware/modules/photon/system-part1'
make: *** [/home/andyw/spark/firmware/modules/photon/system-part1/makefile] Error 2
$

Am I missing an unlock step or something similar ?

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the DFU driver in the core/photon automatically unlocks each flash page before writing.

We know dfu to be working well with Photons on Windows/OS X. Could this be a problem with DFU on linux?

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Maybe - but if so, it is the first inkling I have of any problems with it - have been happily DFU-ing all sorts of cores, photons and other devices for ages (albeit I’m revisiting the photon after a hiatus building from firmware locally.)

4

DFU is managed by the bootloader, so unless you recently updated the bootloader, then DFU should still be good. Also an idea to try a different USB cable.

5

Ah - you mentioned in a PM that “… [make …all program-dfu] will update the system firmware (and the firmware updates the bootloader.)”.

This did not happen the first time through, is it possible that my bootloader is out of sync now ?

6

Different cables, and different host ports did not change the failure mode.

7

After further investigation, it is likely that the bootloader is extremely out of date on these parts (which did not flow through the standard production programming & test flow - so this problem should be limited to me & this particular unit.)

Plan is to reflash the bootloader via JTAG asap.

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The photon in question has something very badly wrong with it, specifically in flash or flash controller.

Attempts to program it via jtag also failed in ways I had never seen before.

So if you see this error, it is very likely that the photon is toast.