Also, at POR, it would help to understand at which point the USR LEDs( all
4 at once ) come on, then go off again.

I'm assuming this is not done in uboot, but I really do not know.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:19 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the software is locked up, the USR LEDs would not cycle as if the
> system is attempting to restart.
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:08 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From what Gerald said previously in this thread:
>>
>> "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.”
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:55 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> If the board was in sleep, then why wont the reset button reset ? Passed
>> that, why would the USR cycle( flash on then off ) then nothing ?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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]>
>>> 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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