tbylit Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Armbianmonitor: http://ix.io/1JMe I'm new here, so please bear with me! I run an Odroid XU4 with Armbian stretch default. Recently I did a normal apt update and upgrade to kernel/dtb/headers version 5.97 (from 5.91), along with all other possible upgrades. This made the system very unstable- it had an uptime of nearly 3 months with 5.91 (all time high for the board) before the reboot, and after the upgrade it lasted a couple of hours before stalling/crashing. A downgrade to kernel/dtb/headers v 5.95 helped somewhat, but it crashed after a week or so - it may just be of those "it just happens". I went ahead and installed 5.91 and it is stable so far a few days in. The board is a bit throttled (roof at 90 % of max frequencies) and is a XU4Q with an attached Noctua NF A4-20 5V controlled by the on board controller. It runs Seti@HOME on two cores 60% of the time and handles Transmission and Samba as a NAS (two external USB drives with their own PSU:s). Mean CPU-temp is just below 60C with fan running at 47% (PWM value 120). I use eMMC as a boot device. Nothing in the configuration was changed between the software version changes. At this time I'm good with running 5.91 - just wanted to let you know to offer data points debugging purposes. If you need to know something more - let me know! If I should do something different - let me know as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 1 hour ago, tbylit said: I went ahead and installed 5.91 and it is stable so far a few days in. OK, stay there (freeze kernel update in armbian-config) until this is not investigated and report in case it also crashing with the old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozymandias892 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) I've noticed similar on 4.14.144 on a HC2, seems stable on 4.14.141. I narrowed it down to transmission that causes it to crash once a torrent is uploaded, it seemed to sit there happily with no torrent activity. Transmission is currently running in a docker on the ext4 SD card with the torrents downloaded to/seeded from the btrfs data drive. Edited September 30, 2019 by ozymandias892 added more information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 I also did face issues with 4.14.144 on my HC1. I‘m on Buster. Reverted back to 4.14.133, stable again.Forgot to keep a copy of dmesg messages. But as I recall there where network (tcp) related crash stack messages in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 4 hours ago, uli said: I also did face issues with 4.14.144 on my HC1. I‘m on Buster. Reverted back to 4.14.133, stable again. Forgot to keep a copy of dmesg messages. But as I recall there where network (tcp) related crash stack messages in there. https://github.com/armbian/upload/commit/bde7ab63db8f19b404af67e0f1da48cca2969b86 This problem should be fixed with apt update and apt upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooperior Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 9/30/2019 at 8:58 PM, ozymandias892 said: I've noticed similar on 4.14.144 on a HC2, seems stable on 4.14.141. I narrowed it down to transmission that causes it to crash once a torrent is uploaded, it seemed to sit there happily with no torrent activity. Transmission is currently running in a docker on the ext4 SD card with the torrents downloaded to/seeded from the btrfs data drive. Same here on Odroid XU4, .144 crashes when a new torrent is added ("invalid inflight" as error). Installing latest armbian from today (with an older kernel) fixes issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1968 Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) Hi, Same problem here, on Odroid HC2, having Armbian Linux 4.14.141-odroidxu4 and yesterday run apt upgrade unsuspectingly. Upgraded to Linux 4.14.144-odroidxu4 kernel. After that system was not available for ping and SSH. Multiple hard reboots does not solve, sometimes system was available, but always frozen after a few seconds. Solution: I had an old /boot backup and i copied to the boot SD card, the four major kernel boot files: initrd.img-4.14.69-odroidxu4, vmlinuz-4.14.69-odroidxu4, System.map-4.14.69-odroidxu4, config-4.14.69-odroidxu4 ), and one directory: dtb-4.14.69-odroidxu4 then create simlink to dtb, uInitrd, zImage rebooted and finger crossed, and hope ssh would work... and thanks Linus it had been worked. Edited October 2, 2019 by Robert1968 mod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, sooperior said: Installing latest armbian from today (with an older kernel) fixes issue. Great! 42 minutes ago, Robert1968 said: Solution: Its safe to apt update and upgrade now. It will bring 4.14.141 ... not .144 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Did apt update and upgrade. On .141 now. So far so good. Thanks for the quick resolution. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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