[Arm-dev] Kernel freezes

Nicolas Repentin nicolas at shivaserv.fr
Mon May 8 18:47:42 UTC 2017


I need to use the SDcard as OS drive, because my HDD is only for
external backup, I put it in standby mode most of time to reduce power
consumption.

The sdcard seems good, i"ve reduce the writes operations by the system
on it.

How can I force the system to log when freezes?


Le 08/05/2017 à 00:26, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
> Could as likely be a problem with the SD card.
>
> With Cubies, if I only have uboot on the mSD card (no partitions), the
> uboot auto switches to the sata drive to load everything.  Hans never
> got moving the uboot to NAND, but with this setup, I have more
> reliable HD than mSD card for booting.
>
> I have been running solid on 4.9 since it was available.
>
> On 05/07/2017 05:16 PM, Nicolas Repentin wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> It's a bpi M1 (http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=35).
>>
>> I'm using it as backup server (got rsnapshot), and secondary mail server
>> (postfix, spamassassin).
>>
>> I got fail2ban and firewalld as well.
>>
>> The OS and /boot are on a SD card, and the data on an encrypted
>> (cryptsetup) hdd on sata port.
>>
>> I did have modified the extlinux.conf to boot on 4.9.
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 07/05/2017 à 23:15, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
>>> Oh, did you replace all THREE lines in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>
>>> #Created by RootFS Build Factory
>>> ui menu.c32
>>> menu autoboot centos
>>> menu title centos Options
>>> #menu hidden
>>> timeout 60
>>> totaltimeout 600
>>> label centos
>>>          kernel /vmlinuz-4.9.13-203.el7.armv7hl
>>>          append enforcing=1
>>> root=UUID=ad25a528-baf4-469c-bd12-5276e8f5f9ae
>>>          fdtdir /dtb-4.9.13-203.el7.armv7hl
>>>          initrd /initramfs-4.9.13-203.el7.armv7hl.img
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/07/2017 05:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I am running 4.9.13-203 on all my servers.
>>>>
>>>> Onlo and Medon are outward facing.  Rigel is internal and z9m9z.test
>>>> is still in test.
>>>>
>>>> All are running as well as I can see.  All are my base install; Onlo
>>>> and Rigel have added BIND and Medon has Apache.  z9m9z is my
>>>> mailserver.
>>>>
>>>> I would be interested to know what you have added to the base for
>>>> your Bpi.  And which Bpi.
>>>>
>>>> What kind of drive you are using (will the Bpi with its sata boot
>>>> from sata like the Cubies?).
>>>>
>>>> On 05/07/2017 04:52 PM, Nicolas Repentin wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have problems with kernel 4.9 on armv7 devices?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using bananapi M1, and on kernel 4.2 (from original centos 7
>>>>> image),
>>>>> works very well.
>>>>> I've tried the latest 4.9, and I take freezes some minutes after
>>>>> boot.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just had a "kernel:Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP ARM" on
>>>>> prompt before freeze. Thanks to watchdog to have reset the Bpi
>>>>> (it's at
>>>>> 350km to me :p).
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have actually more logs... and I have to rollback to 4.2.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any feedback on this 4.9 kernel?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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