Unable to disable I2c in Jessie Pixel

[mvdm]

Hi,

I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm suddenly unable to disable the I2C driver in Jessie with Pixel.

I have tried sudo raspi-config but when I reboot its back on, so I tried preferences/Raspberry Pi Configuration/Interfaces but its the same deal. When I launch the app again its enabled, or if I reboot its enabled.

So I tried commenting out i2c-dev in /etc/modules and dtparam=i2c_arm=on in /boot/config.txt but it just seems to uncomment it self after reboot. i have confirmed the files are being saved by using cat and they are saved correctly. I have also then tried to delete those strings from the file but they seem to append at the bottom of the file after reboot enabling I2C again.

I'm dumbstruck as to what would do this.

[pcmanbob]

Hi.

It sounds like you SD card might have gone read only.

To test this create a file in /home/pi folder some thing like test.txt will do, once you are sure its there reboot your pi if the file disappears then your SD card has gone read only and you will need a new SD card.

[mvdm]

Hi pcmanbob,

The SD card is definitely not in read only mode because the terminal stores all my old commands after reboot, and if I try deleting the entire string with the setting, but it just magically reappears at the bottom of the file after reboot. But I have also tried creating a text file in my home folder with some text in it and its still there after reboot, just to be sure. I also tried to blacklist the I2C drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf as a last ditch effort, but the system places a comment before it automatically after reboot.

I read somewhere that pigpio can do something like this so I uninstalled it, but the problem still remains.
Is there any way to identify what exactly is doing this?

[mvdm]

I did the following to some of the config files as a quick fix, but it doesn't work on /boot

sudo chattr +i /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
sudo chattr +i /etc/modules

However for sudo chattr +i /boot/config.txt i get the following:
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /boot/config.txt

This did the trick for raspi-blacklist.conf and modules but how do I deny what ever script is trying to change /boot/config.txt from being changed. I'm also not sure if that will solve my problem.

[DougieLawson]

You need to remove the

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dtparam=i2c_arm=on

line from /boot/config.txt and reboot.