One more thing of note. I do not run systemd - Ever. I run SYSV as an init
daemon. I only mention this as I think Robert said something about systemd
lessening this issue.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm, not sure what is going on. Sounds like the processor has stopped
> running the code and halted but it forgot to turn off the lights.
>
> Gerald
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gerald, it's like the board hangs at power down, but I can not be 100%
>> sure. The reason why I "assume" it's at power down, is that the heartbeat
>> blink stops, but the rest of the LEDs stay on, and the ethernet port light
>> still blinks.
>>
>> The board I experienced this on last night is an Element14 RevC, but I do
>> also have a circuitco A5A that exhibits the same thing.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this on power up or is this state happening some time later? If it is
>>> on power up, then the power supply most likely is the issue based on the
>>> ramp requirements of the PMIC.
>>>
>>> If the power LED is on, then the PMIC is on and ramped up. That is why I
>>> asked for the voltages.
>>>
>>> It also could be a boot pin read issue where it misreads the boot pins.
>>> If that is the case you should see that from the serial port.
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:15 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For what it's worth Gerald, this happens with nothing connected to the
>>>> board as well. This just happened to me last night after issuing a reboot
>>>> command from the command line.
>>>>
>>>> I remember at some point you all were talking about something about the
>>>> "ramp time" of the PMIC or something.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would start with your cape design and try and rule that out first.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reset is an input pin read by the processor, not actually a HW
>>>>> power reset. If the SW is locked up, this could happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you hold the power button for a 8 seconds or more the board should
>>>>> power cycle.
>>>>>
>>>>> When it is in this state, what do the voltages read?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Ross <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Once in a blue moon one of my beaglebones will get into a state where
>>>>>> it has power (the power LED is lit), but it is not booted. Normally this
>>>>>> would be fine, just hit the power button to reset. But in this weird 
>>>>>> state
>>>>>> the power button does nothing. The reset button does nothing.
>>>>>> I checked the power and reset button pins on the header, the power
>>>>>> was low, the reset was high.
>>>>>> The only way to get the board out of this state was to pull the 5V
>>>>>> power.
>>>>>> I'm using a KL16 on a cape to do a watchdog on the BB, and reboot it
>>>>>> via power and/or reset buttons on the header if the BB stops sending
>>>>>> checkins over uart. This has been working great, except for the rare case
>>>>>> where the board ends up in this state where the power and reset buttons 
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> not functioning.
>>>>>> Any ideas how the BB could get into this state, and if there's any
>>>>>> other way to force a reboot other than physically pulling the 5v power?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> JR
>>>>>>
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