bpi m5 freezes

[fred Ockert]

Hello,

 

BPi  M5  freezes after a couple of hours running  randomly.

- use armbian Armbian 23.02 Bullseye   ( 6.1.11)

- same effects with Armbian  Bookworm CLI   kernels 6.1.x  6.2.x

Now tried Sinovip Ubuntu  (kernel 4.9.x ) aud it is running for days ! form their Homepage

armbian from Sinovip page link  also  freezes...

 

 

 Why Armbian ( or Kernel 6.x ?) freezing . also found that USB power (for my data-USB-HDD) will be switched OFF  during boot mostly . 

tried uhiubctl with permanant switch ON .. ->  starts better - can ust USB-HDD in fstab ... but

System freezes (include:  USB no longer with power )

Is there any script to be change during boot or depends it to kernel ?  hidden powersave options ?

 

I want  use it for a 24/7  running System (nextcloud) - any ideas ?

 

g.l

 

Fred

[Igor]

3 hours ago, fred Ockert said:

same effects with Armbian  Bookworm CLI   kernels 6.1.x  6.2.x

Worth trying switching to < 6.0 kernel in armbian-config, alternative kernel. I am running Odroid HC4 in production, which is pretty much the same device without any issues with kernel 6.0.12
 

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3 hours ago, fred Ockert said:

kernel 4.9.x

 

That is very different. Its kernel from chip vendor which we have dropped some time ago. It has other problems.
 

3 hours ago, fred Ockert said:

System freezes (include:  USB no longer with power )

Is there any script to be change during boot or depends it to kernel ?  hidden powersave options ?

First we need to reproduce and then understands why it happens. You can try to set fixed cpu frequency or governor in armbian-config -> CPU to rule out this possible source of issues.

[c0rnelius]

Can you provide a dmesg of the randomly freezing unit, when running on that kernel? Thanx.

 

EDIT: Not 6.0, as its not a good frame of reference with what may be happening on 6.1 and up. 

Edited May 13, 2023 by c0rnelius

[fred Ockert]

Hello,

yep  tried   Odroid HC4

but... flash error ?  now  i have a boot loop ( on eMMC? ) and it never reaches

u-boot  loader .

Hmm bricked ? and the aml burning tools does not detect the bpi M5 board.

 

Fred 

[fred Ockert]

Hello,

long time ago, but still same problem. Meanwhile new setup here (eMMC formatted) and run for 2 weeks raspian from bpi-website ( kernel 4.9) with usb-storage.

New setup   Armbian 23.05.1 Jammy with Linux 6.1.30-meson64   , new/other  USB-SATA adapter ... running uas driver.

 

the BPI M5 freezed/stopped (?) today early in the morning after less than 2 days uptime. (USB-power loss )

 

how to find out the reason ?

panfrost ffe40000.gpu: error -ENODEV: _opp_set_regulators: no regulator (mali) found

what does it mean ?  

 

Fred

[fred Ockert]

Hello,

it seemes I foud a "solution" - now using latest

 

Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.68_Bananapim5_bookworm_edge_6.4.2.img.xz

runs now for a cpuple of days.

lataest official releases Jammy  and bookwork releases ( kernel 6.1  ) never done - they stopped beween 24...36 hours ( only red LED = power ON , no activity, no access LAN/UART, no log entries...)

What is  different now  between 6.1.x and 6.4.x   kernels ?

 

 

Fred