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AFF-A220 BMC firmware upgrade fails with EXT4-fs error

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • AFF-A220

Issue

  • BMC firmware upgrade when attempted from BMC, repeatedly fails with error:

BMC Node-B> bmc update http://<HTTP_Server_path>/BMC/SP_FW.tar.gz
Downloading package...
Uncompressing package...(md5sum=bfc9XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX5c52)
Unarchiving package...
FW package untar failed.....FAILED
Cleaning up...
ERROR : BMC FW Update Unsuccessful.

  • Upgrade from ONTAP side do not exceed beyond a level:

Cluster::*> sp image update-progress show 
                 In                           Percent
Node             Progress Start Time          Done    End Time
---------------- -------- ------------------- ------- -------------------
Node-A no      -                   0                  -
Node-B yes     8/26/2026 04:14:26  10                 -
2 entries were displayed.

Cluster::*> sp image update-progress show 
                 In                           Percent
Node             Progress Start Time          Done    End Time
---------------- -------- ------------------- ------- -------------------
Node-A no      -                   0                  -
Node-B yes     8/26/2026 04:14:26  0                  8/26/2026 04:15:48
2 entries were displayed.

  • BMC wipeclean does not resolve the issue.
  • BMC frequently reports, filesystem errors:

EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p5): ext4_lookup:1705: inode #550: comm awk: deleted inode referenced: 2918

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