Sounds to me that like BBB has gone into sleep mode and there is no trigger to 
wake it up. Is there a way to measure the current consumption? 

Regards,
John




> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:40 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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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