JrRockeTer Posted July 18, 2020 Posted July 18, 2020 Is there an issues page relating to the M4V2 and Armbian Focal. I'm testing it and I have a few strange things happening with NFS and network but I was wondering if there as a known issues or a general topic regarding this board and this Ambian build because searching for nanopi-M4V2 Focal... is not a good idea. Thanks
Werner Posted July 18, 2020 Posted July 18, 2020 Well if you already reached out for the search function there is nothing much to add here since the topic lacks of further fundamental information like armbianmonitor -u, configs, error messages....
JrRockeTer Posted July 18, 2020 Author Posted July 18, 2020 There are no messages, the system simply reboots that is why I wanted to know if there were issues under certain circumstances. No error messages, no panic, no crash, no core dumps, no kernal erros, nothing in the syslog, journalctl shows no additional problems to the ones on installation, just reboots. Copy a directory with hundreds of files over NFS after a while, stops, reboots Copy a directory with hundreds of files using rsync, after a while, stops, reboots All of this on a LAN Another way to reproduce it, Firefox Syncing, I have lots of add ons, Firefox starts to sync, system reboots. Additional software installed tmux, zsh (from armbian SW oh my zsh), vim gtk3, nfs-common, mlocate, firefox, that's about it Using 2.4Ghz Keyboard and mouse.. Nothing much else outside of the ordinary on the h/w side, the box is in the metal case with the fan Configuration SD card and 500GB NVME , the system boots from SD but runs on the NVME - NO EMMC installed That is about it. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. I'm going to copy IMG to another SD tomorrow and try and reproduce it step by step
Werner Posted July 19, 2020 Posted July 19, 2020 Hm. Maybe it is a emergency shutdown due to thermal issues? Did you check the temperature under load?
JrRockeTer Posted July 19, 2020 Author Posted July 19, 2020 I'm not monitoring the temperature as I'm busy checking the transfer etc but I could split the screen and armbianmonitor in another screen and see what the temperature is doing. But in that case it means the first thing I need to do is to compile fancontrol and run it but make sure it keeps it cool. And this is not cool!!! I had no problems under Bionic on this system, I just wanted to upgrade to focal. I'm currently running FriendlyElec and facontrol is automatic.
Werner Posted July 19, 2020 Posted July 19, 2020 Quote upgrade to focal. Did you literally upgrade to focal (do-release-update) or started with a new image?
JrRockeTer Posted July 20, 2020 Author Posted July 20, 2020 I downloaded these: Armbian_20.05.4_Nanopim4v2_focal_current_5.4.46.img Armbian_20.05.4_Nanopim4v2_focal_current_5.4.46_desktop.img Tried them both, the reboot stopped after I reinstalled but I have other issues, firefox crashing, Telegram crashing.. I even tried Mate Desktop and sddm. I'm going to go back to bionic with the M4V2, Focal is the worse experience I've had with Armbian since the Tinkerboard!
Werner Posted July 21, 2020 Posted July 21, 2020 Since both Bionic ans Focal flavor of Armbian sharing the very same kernel package this could be an upstream issue. I know @NicoD has n M4V2 as well, maybe he finds some time to do some tests to confirm.
JrRockeTer Posted July 21, 2020 Author Posted July 21, 2020 Thanks @NicoD is touring vlaanderen at the moment, lucky man ;-) BTW, on the main download page for the build I downloaded it says: "SUPPORTED devices are tested and they work apart from known issues and missing features. Support is provided as far as possible (in general there is no support for 3rd party hardware like DVB tuners and software like Kodi). Please check the documentation and existing forum posts before posting a question. Questions on private channels are ignored." So the first thing I did was to ask for the issues page, which no one answered, or you did but you did not try and answer my question, plus, it is the title of this post. So, does this "SUPPORTED" actually mean anything as you're the only one trying to help ?
Werner Posted July 21, 2020 Posted July 21, 2020 Yeah I know, saw the YT videos Unfortunately there is not much documentation in that case. It is quite hard to keep track what are current issues, what has been solved, what is new and everything across literaly hundred boards... Anyway what might be interesting for you is to check JIRA for open threads: https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/ I could have mentioned that before. Support terms are stated here:https://github.com/armbian/build#support And no, I am no maintainer or developer. I am just a random guy that spends (sometimes too much) time in the forums and help others and collect information that might be useful for actual contributors. The issue in general is that the team behind Armbian is way too small for the amount of work and can barely catch up with everything. This of course has some downsides and relying on the community to provide p2p support. 1
JrRockeTer Posted July 22, 2020 Author Posted July 22, 2020 Wow, thanks very much Werner, the first link is the one I was looking for ... Thanks. And let me thank you for your patience and your help for this strange problem. I'm getting along with the M4V2 very well now, I use Chromium for the sites I know will crash Firefox and for the rest I have one WiFi problem which I'll post about in a new post. Thanks
Werner Posted July 22, 2020 Posted July 22, 2020 21 hours ago, JrRockeTer said: Wow, thanks very much Werner, the first link is the one I was looking for ... Thanks. And let me thank you for your patience and your help for this strange problem. I'm getting along with the M4V2 very well now, I use Chromium for the sites I know will crash Firefox and for the rest I have one WiFi problem which I'll post about in a new post. Thanks You're welcome! Glad to hear you could make progess. If you come across stuff that can be enhanced or patched and you would like to share with the community please do so. Armbian heavily relying on community contributions. 1
NicoD Posted July 22, 2020 Posted July 22, 2020 Hi @JrRockeTer and @Werner . Nice to see you guys making progress. I haven't checked much in focal on Armbian. Only gaming. I indeed was on tour. And had a couple rough days making all the video's. So I had no time to look into it. Glad to see it seems fixed. On 7/21/2020 at 2:40 PM, Werner said: And no, I am no maintainer or developer. I am just a random guy that spends (sometimes too much) time in the forums and help others and collect information that might be useful for actual contributors. Same goes for me. I help where I can, but I can't help that much. In a few weeks I'll get back into it, haven't done enough traveling yet. Greetings.
Werner Posted July 23, 2020 Posted July 23, 2020 7 hours ago, NicoD said: In a few weeks I'll get back into it, haven't done enough traveling yet. Greetings. Enjoy yourself 1
JrRockeTer Posted July 23, 2020 Author Posted July 23, 2020 Hi @NicoD nice to see you and nice to watch the videos, there are 3 I have not seen yet .. I don't know what caused the problems.. After talking to werner I recompiled the fancontrol C program and set it up as a service and I used the original power supply. The rebooting issue disappeared. I think it is stable now but it gave me a lot of problems, I finally changed to SDDM instead of the default and changed to Ubuntu Mate.. Now it works just like I want it to BUT ; In the process I managed to lose my wlan0 device, which I posted about in another post. Yesterday I donated some money to Armbian hoping to help on the support side. And thanks to @Werner who tried his best. Have fun holidaying, I'm not venturing far this year! 2
JrRockeTer Posted July 28, 2020 Author Posted July 28, 2020 I think most of my original problems were related to: Power, Memory, HEAT 1- at one time I made a mistake and was not using the factory power supply 2- the problem with zram and swapping that you fixed for me @NicoD 3- When I first installed it I had not installed fan management, this should come standard. See is-there-a-way-to-avoid-killing-processe-when-out-of-memory-out-of-memory-killed-process for instructions on the memory issue cat /proc/swaps Type Size Used Priority /dev/zram0 partition 329960 328920 5 /dev/zram1 partition 329960 329020 5 /dev/zram2 partition 329960 329076 5 /dev/zram3 partition 329960 328840 5 /dev/zram4 partition 329960 329008 5 /dev/zram5 partition 329960 329000 5 /swapfile file 8388604 516160 -2 vmstat 5 100 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 14 1 2945416 82864 3580 281876 14 20 13 6 44 53 1 0 99 0 0 10 0 2965260 79092 2084 251232 43369 35211 34502 13287 10110 17175 58 34 6 2 0 9 0 2999792 83996 4204 293888 32905 38888 31712 27475 9000 15632 61 34 4 1 0
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