I just managed to cause the issue again by running:
sudo du -s * 
while in the main directory of the SD card. So this seems to be connected 
to intensive SD card use. 

Again, nothing in the logs that I could identify. Since the shutdown didn't 
work as expected I had to cut power.

On Sunday, October 12, 2014 12:08:01 PM UTC+2, Sebastian H wrote:
>
> Early this morning I had this <http://pastebin.com/ekrc6eYt> in my 
> netconsole log. The Beagle was still up and running fine. I unmounted the 
> SD card and ran e2fsck -cvf /dev/mmcblk0p2 which didn't turn up any issues 
> <http://pastebin.com/anBuD6yU>.
>
> Any ideas what this is about? 
>
> On Saturday, October 11, 2014 10:02:45 PM UTC+2, Sebastian H wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After working around the random reboot issue with kernel 3.14.19-ti-r28 
>> by compiling the kernel without watchdog support (details here 
>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=forum%2Fbeagleboard&showsearch=true&showpopout=true&showtabs=true&hideforumtitle=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbeagleboard.org%2FCommunity%2FForums&afterlogin=#!category-topic/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/vgeh336p0P4>),
>>  
>> I ran into a different issue on my BBB (rev. A5C) today. From what I can 
>> tell, during my overnight backup last night, the SD card somehow locked up 
>> (with user led1 permanently lit) and any process that had tried to access 
>> the SD card was locked up as well.
>> Trying to kill any of the hung processes with "sudo kill pid" wouldn't 
>> work in most cases and only resulted in an unkillable process, because 
>> after I did that, "sudo kill -9 pid" would be useless as well. So I killed 
>> most of the processes with kill -9, but I still ended up with a bunch 
>> completely hosed. 
>>
>> The SD access was completely busted so not even a simple ls command 
>> worked anymore. That would just hang as well and I'd have to kill -9 it. 
>>
>> The rest of the BBB was working just fine, as long as I didn't access the 
>> SD. The CPU was pretty much idle, except for postgresql process that tried 
>> to access the database that is also on the SD, but obviously couldn't 
>> anymore.
>>
>> I also discovered that my eMMC (from which I boot my Debian 7 while the 
>> SD card is used for storage), was almost out of space. That was mostly due 
>> to me installing a number of kernel versions over the last couple of days, 
>> which contributed to a shortage in space. Note that my tmp and log folder 
>> are on a USB drive and thus the system eMMC wasn't completely filled up and 
>> was still working. 
>> While I initially thought the low available memory to be the cause of the 
>> problem, and I certainly wish for that to be the answer, I fear it might be 
>> happening again.
>>
>> I do have netconsole logging running and of course, nothing was in the 
>> log. 
>>
>> The SD card I use is a SanDisk Ultra 32GB Micro SDHC. 
>>
>> So I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on what I can do to gather 
>> more information on the issue, should it arise again? Would I be able to do 
>> some sort of process dump, e.g. of the process handling the SD card? If so, 
>> could anyone point me to information on how that is done and what process I 
>> would have to run it on? I kind of guess that it might be the mmcqd/0 
>> process? That's one I've seen causing an issue on the 3.8.13 kernel where 
>> it randomly froze up and I do recall that on these occasions, the usr LED1 
>> also was always lit. My report of that issue (and the kernel panic details) 
>> can be found here <https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/issues/12>.
>>
>> I appreciate any pointers and assistance you can offer. 
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>

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