Failed startup: failed to open NVS namespace WIFI: ESP_OK

[myxor]

After a fresh and successful flash-erase and then flash the startup fails:

[09:15:41.816] tio v2.6
[09:15:41.816] Press ctrl-t q to quit
[09:15:41.817] Connected
I (181) esp_image: segment 1: paddr=00083210 vaddr=3fc9f6c0 size=06c64h ( 27748) load
I (187) esp_image: segment 2: paddr=00089e7c vaddr=40378000 size=0619ch ( 24988) load
I (193) esp_image: segment 3: paddr=00090020 vaddr=42000020 size=148780h (1345408) map
I (437) esp_image: segment 4: paddr=001d87a8 vaddr=4037e19c size=11518h ( 70936) load
I (461) boot: Loaded app from partition at offset 0x30000
I (492) boot: Set actual ota_seq=1 in otadata[0]
I (492) boot: Disabling RNG early entropy source...
I (503) opi psram: vendor id : 0x0d (AP)
I (503) opi psram: dev id    : 0x02 (generation 3)
I (503) opi psram: density   : 0x03 (64 Mbit)
I (507) opi psram: good-die  : 0x01 (Pass)
I (512) opi psram: Latency   : 0x01 (Fixed)
I (517) opi psram: VCC       : 0x01 (3V)
I (521) opi psram: SRF       : 0x01 (Fast Refresh)
I (527) opi psram: BurstType : 0x01 (Hybrid Wrap)
I (532) opi psram: BurstLen  : 0x01 (32 Byte)
I (537) opi psram: Readlatency  : 0x02 (10 cycles@Fixed)
I (543) opi psram: DriveStrength: 0x00 (1/1)
I (549) spiram: Found 64MBit SPI RAM device
I (553) spiram: SPI RAM mode: sram 80m
I (557) spiram: PSRAM initialized, cache is in normal (1-core) mode.
I (564) cpu_start: Pro cpu up.
I (568) cpu_start: Starting app cpu, entry point is 0x403796cc
I (0) cpu_start: App cpu up.
I (860) spiram: SPI SRAM memory test OK
I (869) cpu_start: Pro cpu start user code
I (869) cpu_start: cpu freq: 240000000
I (869) cpu_start: Application information:
I (871) cpu_start: Project name:     willow
I (876) cpu_start: App version:      1
I (881) cpu_start: Compile time:     Sep  7 2023 06:53:32
I (887) cpu_start: ELF file SHA256:  c900ff9308aeb52c...
I (893) cpu_start: ESP-IDF:          v4.4.5-dirty
I (898) cpu_start: Min chip rev:     v0.0
I (903) cpu_start: Max chip rev:     v0.99 
I (908) cpu_start: Chip rev:         v0.1
I (913) heap_init: Initializing. RAM available for dynamic allocation:
I (920) heap_init: At 3FCAC988 len 0003CD88 (243 KiB): D/IRAM
I (926) heap_init: At 3FCE9710 len 00005724 (21 KiB): STACK/DIRAM
I (933) heap_init: At 600FE000 len 00002000 (8 KiB): RTCRAM
I (939) spiram: Adding pool of 8192K of external SPI memory to heap allocator
I (948) spi_flash: detected chip: gd
I (951) spi_flash: flash io: dio
I (956) sleep: Configure to isolate all GPIO pins in sleep state
I (962) sleep: Enable automatic switching of GPIO sleep configuration
I (969) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on PRO CPU.
I (0) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on APP CPU.
I (985) spiram: Reserving pool of 16K of internal memory for DMA/internal allocations
I (00:16:20.585) WILLOW/MAIN: Starting up! Please wait...
I (00:16:20.859) WILLOW/MAIN: Waiting on SPIFFS mount...
I (00:16:21.359) WILLOW/MAIN: SPIFFS mounted
I (00:16:21.359) WILLOW/CONFIG: opening /spiffs/user/config/willow.json
E (00:16:21.482) WILLOW/CONFIG: failed to open /spiffs/user/config/willow.json
E (00:16:24.152) WILLOW/MAIN: failed to open NVS namespace WIFI: ESP_OK

[nikito]

Was this flashing via WAS? Or did you just go directly to the flashing website? If in WAS, did you run through all the configs first before flashing?

[stintel]

Your NVS partition does not have an NVS namespace, and you reference commands like erase-flash and flash, so you are most likely not using Willow Web Flash. You should follow the quick start guide.

Alternatively, if you do not want to use Willow Web Flash, you can write the NVS partition manually. Instructions are in commit 36ee1f70bf1d23d2cf654afbd2a95db448e73699 and 021bb7ad08244732167c1099d44399da1b80bda5.

[myxor]

I used the guide described at https://heywillow.io/development/ because this was the way i flashed it the first time (before WAS existed). Using WAS the flash process worked. Thanks for the help!