phidauex

I'll monitor the other thread to see if I can figure anything else out, but the troubleshooting here is exceeding my skillset fast, and I got a good price on an HPE ML30 Gen10 which might replace both my NAS and my virtualization server. I'm limping the Helios64 along OK for sharing media files, but the instability means I'm not successfully running my offsite backups or my TimeMachine backups, which is really putting a time limit on the solution for me. I really want the Helios to work, it is such a cool little machine, but without OEM support I'm running out of ideas.

I think in my various experiments I tried both of those methods - the raw image without updates, and the image updated to 23.8.1. Are you running the install before or after transferring to the eMMC? I did it before, installing directly onto the SD card. Can you tell if the install is hanging due to a crash? Or just hanging but the system can be used normally from another ssh shell?

In the two fresh-reinstalls I've had to do recently, I was able to install OMV successfully using their "install over Debian" method. I wasn't able to get armbian-config installs working, probably just something out of date in the script. First, get the system running stable on the clean Bullseye install, then follow these instructions (naturally skipping the part about trying armbian-config, which you already tried): https://docs.openmediavault.org/en/latest/installation/on_debian.html

This is a great suggestion - I was wondering why everyone's Helios64s were starting to act up seemingly all at once, and the realtime battery is an interesting potential culprit. It is a CR1225, 3V lithium, I'll get a replacement and test mine shortly. I'll also see if I can get my scope hooked up to the power supply and subject it to some load, gradually failing original supplies could be another culprit impacting multiple people. I'm currently running 5.10.63 which I had run for a long time last year with 30 day typical uptimes, but now getting crashes and seg faults at least once a day - really suggests a hardware issue. I'll see if I can take some measurements and bring some answers...