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Neil Horowitz

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I’m using an Asus RT-AC86U router and recently upgraded to Merlin firmware 384.17 from 384.16. Since installing this new firmware I am seeing many thousands of the following events filling the general log:
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:32:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)

What would cause these log events and how do I resolve this problem? Despite this problem, the router appears to be functioning properly.
 
I’m using an Asus RT-AC86U router and recently upgraded to Merlin firmware 384.17 from 384.16. Since installing this new firmware I am seeing many thousands of the following events filling the general log:
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:30:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)
May 5 16:31:07 kernel: jffs2: Error garbage collecting node at 02aa8620!
May 5 16:32:07 kernel: jffs2: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing_blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes)

What would cause these log events and how do I resolve this problem? Despite this problem, the router appears to be functioning properly.
As far as i know this is the router preforming it own maintenance , reboot and such log entries should cease.
If that fails ,you may need to reformat jffs.
 

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