before:
Orange Pi Zero (H+),
CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero
DRAM: 512 MiB
TF card is Samsung Evo Plus 64GB;
After writing the TF card with Win32DiskImager, the same issue occurred: normal boot-up and shutdown, but when executing a reboot, it gets stuck at the final stage of service termination before restarting.
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[ OK ] Reached target shutdown.target - System Shutdown.
[ OK ] Deactivated swap dev-zram0.swap - /dev/zram0.
[ OK ] Reached target umount.target - Unmount All Filesystems.
[ OK ] Reached target final.target - Late Shutdown Services.
[ OK ] Finished systemd-reboot.service - System Reboot.
[ OK ] Reached target reboot.target - System Reboot.
[44967.125952] systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to set timeout to 10min: Invalid argument
systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to set timeout to 10min: Invalid argument
[44967.761002] reboot: Restarting system
This is where it starts to lose responsiveness!
after:
Following someone's guidance, I was told to install or update u-boot: run armbian-install, then selected “Install/Update the bootloader on SD card (/dev/mmcblk0)”. After the update completed, needed to shut down the system and disconnect the power (the first time I performed a reboot here, but it got stuck again at the final stage of stopping services before restarting, just like before). so I had to disconnect the power, then plug it back in for an automatic boot-up. After that, performing a reboot worked normally without getting stuck).
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[ OK ] Reached target shutdown.target - System Shutdown.
[ OK ] Deactivated swap dev-zram0.swap - /dev/zram0.
[ OK ] Reached target umount.target - Unmount All Filesystems.
[ OK ] Reached target final.target - Late Shutdown Services.
[ OK ] Finished systemd-reboot.service - System Reboot.
[ OK ] Reached target reboot.target - System Reboot.
[44967.125952] systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to set timeout to 10min: Invalid argument
systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to set timeout to 10min: Invalid argument
[44967.761002] reboot: Restarting system
U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P7738-Ha5c2-Vd711-Bb703-R448a (Aug 16 2025 - 02:09:48 +0000)
DRAM: 512 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
ns16550_serial serial@1c28000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle_id: err=-19
U-Boot 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P7738-Ha5c2-Vd711-Bb703-R448a (Aug 16 2025 - 02:09:48 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero
DRAM: 512 MiB
Core: 69 devices, 18 uclasses, devicetree: separate
WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0
MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 1
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1...
In: serial,usbkbd
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: eth0: ethernet@1c30000
starting USB...
Bus usb@1c1a000: sun4i_usb_phy phy@1c19400: External vbus detected, not enabling our own vbus
USB EHCI 1.00
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You can see that immediately after the log entry "[44967.761002] reboot: Restarting system", the system begins booting.
