[SOLVED...?] Odroid-C1: Random reboot

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[SOLVED...?] Odroid-C1: Random reboot

Postby Gyscos » Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:51 am

EDIT #2
Well I think the emmc module was in cause. I just installed arch on a microsd card instead, and I still haven't noticed any such issue.
Plus, running fsck on the emmc partition resulted in errors, that stayed even after having fsck fix them. A few experiments later, and now the emmc don't even register the correct size, fdisk only shows a 1GB disk. :-S

Hello,
I am having a lot of isses with my new Odroid-C1. In particular, it sometimes reboots by itself.
I noticed that it mostly happens in "intense" tasks, such as updating the system or opening a new xfce session. It is not deterministic though, as tasks that were running during a reboot sometimes complete successfully.
Sometimes, the board reboots, and then reboots again before I even get to see a login prompt. I have seen this happen up to 3 times in a row.

I tried to look at some logs, as returned by journalctl, but finds no mention of an error at all, just the line -- Reboot -- here and there. I ran journalctl -f from ssh, but the last messages before a reboot were never really the same.

I am using the official 5V 2A charger bought with the Odroid itself. I am running an up-to-date version of Arch installed on a 16GB emmc chip.

I measured the voltage between a ground and a 5V GPIO, and I got 5.02V quite consistently. The 3.3V gpio indicated 3.25V.
This did not seem to change while running a benchmark.
The board is laid on a piece of textile without obvious cause for short-circuits.

These random reboots are seriously handicaping - do you think the board is faulty? Should I send it back?

EDIT: Here are some journalctl messages I got just before a reboot:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Feb 11 21:59:44 odroid org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[540]: (tumblerd:569): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-raw-thumbnailer.so": libopenrawgnome.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Feb 11 21:59:44 odroid org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[540]: (tumblerd:569): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-odf-thumbnailer.so": libgsf-1.so.114: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Feb 11 21:59:44 odroid org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[540]: (tumblerd:569): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-ffmpeg-thumbnailer.so": libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Feb 11 21:59:44 odroid org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[540]: (tumblerd:569): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so": libpoppler-glib.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
')
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid lxdm-session[420]: pam_unix(lxdm:session): session opened for user gyscos by (uid=0)
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[1]: Starting user-1000.slice.
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[1]: Created slice user-1000.slice.
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd-logind[182]: New session c3 of user gyscos.
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[1]: Starting Session c3 of user gyscos.
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[1]: Started Session c3 of user gyscos.
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1000...
Feb 11 22:01:37 odroid systemd[421]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user gyscos by (uid=0)
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Starting Paths.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Reached target Paths.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Starting Sockets.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Reached target Sockets.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Starting Timers.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Reached target Timers.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Starting Basic System.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Reached target Basic System.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Starting Default.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Reached target Default.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[421]: Startup finished in 310ms.
Feb 11 22:01:38 odroid systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000.')
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Re: [SOLVED...?] Odroid-C1: Random reboot

Postby haiku » Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:10 am

Hi,
Well i suppose i've got the same issue. Arch runs fine for few days then crash for no reason. I also suspect a hardware problem but i don't know where to look at. journalctl reveals nothings, i have yet to fsck the emmc.. That would be a shame if it is the culprit :geek:
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Re: [SOLVED...?] Odroid-C1: Random reboot

Postby MrRee » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:49 am

The only time I see this sort of behavior with my C-1 is when I forget that I have Firefox open and attempt to launch somthing like Chromium, it simply restarts when it runs out of RAM .. the C1 may have 1gb of ram, but some of that is dedicated to the mali/video side of things, which means that there is 845M left for use, which if using RAM-hungry apps like Firefox and Chromium does not last long...

in an attempt to prevent it I set up a swapfile on my external drive that I use as /home, however I am not sure if a usb2 conection is fast enou for teh swapping to take place quickly enough to prevent restarts entirly.

Jase
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Re: [SOLVED...?] Odroid-C1: Random reboot

Postby haiku » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:38 am

Well, it just crash again (+3 days running). I have fsck the emmc, it was healthy. journalctl still reveals nothing much
I also done some stress test (sysbench, copy/remove large files, etc) the odroid was stable.
I wondering what could be wrong, so far each times it crashed an open ssh session were open on the device.. :geek:
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