Finally had a day to install Debian with updated u-boot and 3.13.1 kernel 
(custom compiled from https://github.com/beagleboard/kernel.git), no issues 
so far.

Thank you,

Vladimir

http://pastebin.com/wwriLcm3




On Monday, February 3, 2014 2:12:04 PM UTC-5, AndrewTaneGlen wrote:
>
> Try with a different software package, e.g. 
> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu (I'd highly recommend using this over 
> Angstrom in any case) If you have similar problems it might help point to a 
> HW issue.
>
> On Monday, 3 February 2014 08:04:23 UTC+13, Vladimir B wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to rule out SW issues with my BBB (HW Rev A5C) running 
>> Angstrom.  First I am going to give a bit of background on when the issues 
>> started and then provide dumps of crashed as seen via UART.
>>
>>
>>
>>    1. BBB was working fine for quite some time.  
>>    2. Then I tried to switch from wired ethernet to wireless by plugging 
>>    in UWN200 (
>>    http://www.logicsupply.com/components/networking/wireless/uwn200/) 
>>    while BBB was powered by DC adapter. 
>>    3. My SSH over wired Ethernet froze.  
>>    4. I removed the UWN200 and rebooted a device but could not longer 
>>    connect via SSH with wired ethernet
>>    5. Connecting via USB (client) I could not get network connection 
>>    to 192.168.7.2 either.  As I realized later I did not even have usb0 
>> listed 
>>    when running ifconfig
>>    6. At this point I connected via UART
>>    7. I could see that the kernel was crashing with NULL pointer 
>>    dereference Oops
>>    8. Every few restarts it would get past this oops
>>    9. I shutdown BBB and looked to upgrade to latest Angstrom a few days 
>>    later, thinking maybe I am just a lucky one to hit a real bug in the 
>> kernel
>>    10. I downloaded the following image 
>>    
>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/angstrom/demo/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.04.img.xzinto
>>  SD card
>>    11. BBB was booted from SD by holding the boot button.
>>    12. Flashing process was problematic, it took a few reboots (about) 
>>    from SD card for eMMC flashing to complete (4 solid LEDs) without kernel 
>>    Oopsing
>>       - One of the Oopses was odd as it was for "invalid instruction"
>>    
>>
>> To me this feels like a HW problem due to failures manifesting themselves 
>> in different ways. Segfaults in the apps, NULL pointer dereferences in the 
>> kernel, Soft CPU lockups.  But I would like to rule out a user error.
>>
>> Few observations:
>>
>>    - I have run mtest from uboot without any errors being detected
>>    - Same for memtester
>>    - Pressing rest button does not always reboot the device. Sometimes 
>>    holding power button down is the only way to reboot the BBB. But 
>> sometimes 
>>    it works just fine.
>>    - For a few reboots accessing BBB via HTTP would causes kernel 
>>    Oopses.  Trying it out just now and it worked just fine
>>
>>
>> The below is done post flashing to the latest angstrom:
>>
>>    - systemd once segfaulted during boot: http://pastebin.com/YFuxNs8e
>>    - some times system boots just fine: http://pastebin.com/7HynL8H7
>>    - "opkg upgrade" consistently segfaults
>>    - "opkg install strace" consistently segfaults
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I can do to narrow down the root cause of the 
>> issue would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Vladimir
>>
>

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