ef15c Posted October 10, 2022 Posted October 10, 2022 After upgrade to version 5.15.72, fancontrol service fails to start, due to missing /dev/fan-j17 There is some information in dmesg: pwm-fan j17-pwm: error -EBUSY: Could not get PWM 0 Quote
Igor Posted October 10, 2022 Posted October 10, 2022 Workaround: armbian-config -> system -> alternative kernel , pick previous, freeze, wait 1 Quote
FredK Posted October 11, 2022 Posted October 11, 2022 Same effect here. After applying the workaround by @Igor - now I'm back at 22.08.2/5.15.69 - fancontrol is working again. Any patch for 22.08.4 or an upstream solution to be expected? 0 Quote
Igor Posted October 11, 2022 Posted October 11, 2022 52 minutes ago, FredK said: Any patch for 22.08.4 or an upstream solution to be expected? I apologize for troubles, but that's all I can do. We finance maintaining and dealing with our "customers" almost in 100% so its always difficult to answer such questions. We are talking about few hours of work. If you would cover that, we would not have this conversation in first place. Don't know. Task is open to the person that knows something about and will not need weeks, just hours. It can take days, weeks ... years. To get there. Then an update must be pushed out which will almost certainly break something else. And someone else will ask for our attention, call for responsibility, ... Upstream delivers only general patches. I have removed this update from repository so at least nobody else got into the troubles. Which were, like usually, caused by upstream. 0 Quote
FredK Posted October 11, 2022 Posted October 11, 2022 @Igor Thank you for the explanation. Let's see what will happen at the next kernel update. Maybe @Heisath has an idea/solution preventing the problem in future updates? 0 Quote
Igor Posted October 11, 2022 Posted October 11, 2022 42 minutes ago, FredK said: Let's see what will happen at the next kernel update. 1. Each kernel upgrade usually fix something, messes something else. Speaking generally. In case of this device, this rarely happen, as its old. If you look more into the details, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/drivers/gpio?h=v5.15.72 someone is fixing something else or just try to do it differently. Which is causing that our patched stopped working. Just a collateral damage. 2. He is the one you need to wait. I would state this already before, but we don't want that anyone put additional pressure, especially if problem is known and this can only helps that we don't do anything more ... you can also hire someone, pay him few hours, and share a patch with community. Why this should be his or my personal expense? Use provided workaround. Alternatives always exists. 0 Quote
Heisath Posted October 11, 2022 Posted October 11, 2022 Hey. Yeah I noticed this problem already, see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4261 Unfortunately I did not get around to fix it last weekend, working on it right now As for future proofing, unless someone has the energy to get the patches mainlined it will break from time to time... 1 Quote
Heisath Posted October 12, 2022 Posted October 12, 2022 Need review and actual testing on HW https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4275 0 Quote
FredK Posted October 12, 2022 Posted October 12, 2022 @Heisath Unfortunately I am not able to build a new kernel applying your patch. Sorry. But I will test the new kernel after release asap. OTOH I can live with the situation that from time to time the fancontrol doesn't work. Now I know what to do (using last working alternative kernel) and reporting the fact here in the forum or within discord. EDIT: I see that the patch has been committed and merged. 0 Quote
Dee2022 Posted October 12, 2022 Posted October 12, 2022 Hi everybody, This is my first post over here, so apologies if this is not in the right format. I discovered the following issue with the fans of my Helios4 Armada388 system yesterday, after upgrading to the latest version of OMV based on Armbian 22.08.4 Bullseye with Linux 5.15.72-mvebu: The fans were spinning very fast and thus making a lot of noise. This was a new issue. I looked at the fancontrol utility and noticed that the config was broken on Armbian 22.08.4 Bullseye with Linux 5.15.72-mvebu From the logfiles: Oct 12 07:23:36 helios4 kernel: [ 14.629414] hwmon hwmon2: temp1_input not attached to any thermal zone Oct 12 07:23:36 helios4 kernel: [ 14.629422] lm75 0-004c: hwmon2: sensor 'lm75' Oct 12 07:23:36 helios4 kernel: [ 15.520811] pwm-fan j17-pwm: error -EBUSY: Could not get PWM Oct 12 07:23:36 helios4 kernel: [ 15.520824] pwm-fan: probe of j17-pwm failed with error -16 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Settings for /dev/fan-j10/pwm1: Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Depends on /dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Controls Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINTEMP=40 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MAXTEMP=80 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINSTART=20 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINSTOP=29 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINPWM=0 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MAXPWM=255 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: AVERAGE=1 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 kernel: [ 27.722907] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group, jqfmt=vfsv0,acl. Quota mode: journalled. Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Settings for /dev/fan-j17/pwm1: Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Depends on /dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: Controls Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINTEMP=40 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MAXTEMP=80 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINSTART=20 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 systemd[1]: Mounted /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-0fc50881-8a99-4064-a279-301a326ff75b. Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINSTOP=29 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MINPWM=0 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: MAXPWM=255 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1313]: AVERAGE=1 Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 systemd[1]: Started fan speed regulator. Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ... Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 systemd[1]: Starting File System Quota Check... Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Common settings: Oct 12 07:23:37 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: INTERVAL=10 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Settings for /dev/fan-j10/pwm1: Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Depends on /dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Controls Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINTEMP=40 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MAXTEMP=80 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINSTART=20 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINSTOP=29 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINPWM=0 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MAXPWM=255 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: AVERAGE=1 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Settings for /dev/fan-j17/pwm1: Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Depends on /dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Controls Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINTEMP=40 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MAXTEMP=80 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINSTART=20 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINSTOP=29 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MINPWM=0 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: MAXPWM=255 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: AVERAGE=1 Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: Error: file /dev/fan-j17/pwm1 doesn't exist Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: At least one referenced file is missing. Either some required kernel Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: modules haven't been loaded, or your configuration file is outdated. Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 fancontrol[1720]: In the latter case, you should run pwmconfig again. Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 systemd[1]: fancontrol.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 systemd[1]: fancontrol.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 12 07:23:38 helios4 systemd[1]: fancontrol.service: Consumed 1.012s CPU time. On the website https://wiki.kobol.io/helios4/pwm/ I read the following: "Patch requirement Currently Linux gpio-mvebu driver does not allow more than 1 PWM under the same gpio bank. Helios4 uses 2 PWM under same bank therefore this patch needs to be applied to kernel source to remove the restriction." I assumed there was something wrong with the kernel. Downgrading to kernel helios4 5.15.69-mvebu #22.08.2 solved the issue of fancontrol not working. So I assume the required patch, that was always there IMO, has been removed from the latest kernel. Any thoughts on this issue? 0 Quote
Heisath Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 @Dee2022 yeah and a fix is already on the way - read the posts above yours 1 Quote
alchemist Posted October 13, 2022 Posted October 13, 2022 Hi @Heisath thank you for the patch! Will be also an upgrade for the 5.16 kernel? I use the 5.16 version on 5.19 kernel and the patch fails starting from 5.19.14. Same with kernel 6.0 0 Quote
Igor Posted October 19, 2022 Posted October 19, 2022 An update was sent to stable branch. I believe this problem was fixed, but can't make tests. 0 Quote
alchemist Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 Hi! @Igor, I will take some times to test it. for now, the patch in the mvebu-5.16 folder does'nt apply anymore on kernel 5.19, maybe because the modification applied on kernel 5.15 and upper. I don't have free time until around beginning of november. I will test it on vanilla kernels 5.16, 5.19 and 6.0 and give you feed-back. 0 Quote
Igor Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 20 minutes ago, alchemist said: I will test it on vanilla kernels 5.16, 5.19 and 6.0 and give you feed-back. Currently we only maintain 5.15.y mvebu as for everything else we don't have time to catch up https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1313 0 Quote
FredK Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 Update successful, see my signature. Thank you. 0 Quote
ef15c Posted October 22, 2022 Author Posted October 22, 2022 The problem is fixed with linux-image-current-mvebu (22.08.6). Many thanks to Heisath for the fix and Igor for the workaround. 0 Quote
alchemist Posted November 2, 2022 Posted November 2, 2022 On 10/21/2022 at 9:52 AM, Igor said: Currently we only maintain 5.15.y mvebu as for everything else we don't have time to catch up https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1313 Hi! Good news is that this patch for 5.15 is also working on 6.0.6 🙂 0 Quote
Heisath Posted November 5, 2022 Posted November 5, 2022 Good to know. I am currently bringing mvebu-edge to 6.0.y, but that will take a bit more time. 0 Quote
theJoker8814 Posted November 7, 2022 Posted November 7, 2022 Saw the issue/ question is still open. In short, it is fixed. Just updated via apt to 5.15.74-mvebu Many thanks @Heisath /etc/armbian-image-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=helios4 BOARD_NAME="Helios4" BOARDFAMILY=mvebu BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=d485420c00d VERSION=22.08.1 LINUXFAMILY=mvebu ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=stable IMAGE_UUID=079c7d37-9eb0-45a8-ab71-0e45f27d03b8 /etc/armbian-release PLEA#SE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=helios4 BOARD_NAME="Helios4" BOARDFAMILY=mvebu BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=9b04dbfd87d5 VERSION=22.08.8 LINUXFAMILY=mvebu ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image 0 Quote
rayc Posted June 12, 2023 Posted June 12, 2023 Hi, I upgraded to Linux 6.1.30-mvebu and now have the fan issue. Is there a patch available? The workaround mentioned by Igor does not work because no alternate kernel is available. Thanks 0 Quote
SvenHz Posted June 18, 2023 Posted June 18, 2023 Same here using image the regular Bookworm CLI image and kernel version 6.1.30-mvebu. I am happy to help with tests/debugging. @Heisath do you perhaps know more already? 0 Quote
Heisath Posted June 19, 2023 Posted June 19, 2023 I will investigate this - probably once again either broken fan patch or mismatched device tree / kernel information. 0 Quote
SvenHz Posted June 19, 2023 Posted June 19, 2023 Much appreciated. I am happy to test. I found this, seems that your patch had to be disabled to fix the build. https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/mvebu-6.1/92-mvebu-gpio-remove-hardcoded-timer-assignment.patch.disabled 0 Quote
Heisath Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 This is fixed with PR https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5392 0 Quote
SvenHz Posted June 27, 2023 Posted June 27, 2023 (edited) Many thanks @Heisath...!! I am now trying to figure out how to get an image that includes this patch. Was this PR merged only with master or will it also trickle down to the support branch? Reason behind my question is that I'd like to stick to the latest formal release. Now that I am reading this a bit, I will probably go for a custom build of the most recent release with your patch applied locally... Edited June 27, 2023 by SvenHz 0 Quote
alchemist Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Hi @Heisath I saw that the mvebu kernel patches exist for kernel 6.10 but the Helios4 fan patch has been disabled what is the status of this patch for kernel 6.10 ? How can I help for? Xavier 0 Quote
alchemist Posted October 14 Posted October 14 Hi, I am trying to update the patch for kernels 6.10 and 6.11 (same code). My first try was not successful (compile error), I will try again, I think I've understood what the patch will do, but there are a lot off differences between kernel versions 6.6 and 6.10, maybe some new lines need to be patched too. Once it compiles and runs fine on my helios 4, I will provide the patch 😉 Kind regards, Xavier. 0 Quote
alchemist Posted October 15 Posted October 15 I am stuck on pwm->chipdata that is no more accessible in 6.10 I am no linux expert, just have good C knoledge So I will stay on kernel 6.6 for now. 0 Quote
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