Cubieboard1 (A1) does not reboot [SOLVED]

[scimmiettarossa]

hi all

 

I'm the owner of a Cubieboard1 (A10) running Armbian 5.31 Debian Jessie, kernel 4.11.5 (recently upgraded)

 

I'm not quite sure when it happened (normally it stays up&running continuously), but recently I needed to reboot it and it simply shuts down, with no subsequent boot

I've tried multiple times, upgraded the kernel, tried both via GUI and trough cli,.... no way: it simply stops, and I need to push the power on button

 

I've not been able to find any glimpdr on the logs

 

Obiouvsly it is quite annoying, especially for remote management

 

Do you have any idea on the possible causes, troubleshooting etc?

 

thanks in advance

rosanna

 

Edited June 18, 2017 by scimmiettarossa
solved

[Igor]

Install attached u-boot and you will be fine.

linux-u-boot-next-cubieboard_5.31_armhf.deb

[scimmiettarossa]

thanks for your reply.. but it is already installed.... seems it is not the cause of my issue

 

[Igor]

25 minutes ago, scimmiettarossa said:

thanks for your reply.. but it is already installed.... seems it is not the cause of my issue

This is the cause - on my CB1 was the same.

 

Just replace the boot loader and reboot is no longer a power off.

[scimmiettarossa]

I've tried again via Synaptic (with the same-name-package provided by repository), with no result,

 

Then, I've tried again via command line (as quoted below) with the .deb downloaded from your link, and this time  it worked!!

 

thanks a lot!!!

 

as you can see below, the packages name and versions are the same,but for some reason it didn't work, before:

xxx@xxx:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i linux-u-boot-next-cubieboard_5.31_armhf.deb 
 
(Reading database ... 80549 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack linux-u-boot-next-cubieboard_5.31_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking linux-u-boot-cubieboard-next (5.31) over (5.31) ...
Setting up linux-u-boot-cubieboard-next (5.31) ...
Updating u-boot on device /dev/mmcblk0
xxx@xxx:~/Downloads$