We can speculate all day long, but measuring the 5V current consumption will 
tell us a lot more about the power mode state than anything else.

Regards,
John




> On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:19 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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
>> <mailto:[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] 
>> <mailto:[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] 
>>> <mailto:[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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