PINE64

Hello everyone,

This is my first post, so I'll spare a couple of lines to introduce myself:
I'm a hardware enthusiast, sometimes over my possibilities and capabilities, but that is the way I learn. I like running Linux in every device I have, sometimes just because. But I am far from being a Linux-only kind of guy: there is always room for Windows, OSX and FreeBSD.

I started to be interested in the Rock64 board a couple of months ago when someone introduced me to it. After reading on the forums for a while, I decided to buy it from someone that wasn't going to use it anymore. So far I've tried Debian Stretch and Armbian Ubuntu Bionic 64 images.
I am using it to host small headless server for internal use. The resources I am using are the built-in Ethernet, the CPU, the memory and the SD-Card.

To my surprise, I've been having random freezes with both images for a while. So I decided to debug the freezes by using an external UART to see if messages were dumped to the serial console. (I followed this instructions https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5029 )

These freezes could happen at random times, but mostly when I was interacting with the Rock64 through SSH protocol.
I tried to force this freezes with the stress command: sudo stress -c3 -m3; and succeded.
1-4 seconds after executing the stress command, the Rock64 board would freeze. I reproduced this four times in a row.

Would you think this is a board problem? I'm asking in case I have to ask for a refund from the person I bought the board from.

I'm pasting the kernel messages below for reference.

Salutations to everyone!

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Random crash at boot:
https://pastebin.com/BtwZiqXc

First crash induced by stress:
https://pastebin.com/Dxp6SKvT

Second crash induced by stress + temperatures.
https://pastebin.com/5jK74aAP

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Images used:
https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-b...m64.img.xz
https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-b...m64.img.xz

PSU:
Original 5v 3A.

Hi, which image (exactly which version) are you running? ayufan just released new stable

(07-01-2019, 05:12 AM)Luke Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, which image (exactly which version) are you running? ayufan just released new stable

Hi Luke,

When I captured the kernel errors above I was using bionic-minimal-rock64-0.7.8-1061-arm64.img.xz .

I may give revision 0.8.3 a go tonight to see if the freezes reproduce on that version.

Regards,
BTB

0.7.8 is very old at this point, so granted the nature of the issue is not related to hw then its likely fixed.

Hello, .
Did you have any luck finding the problem? I have the exact same issue with my board.

Yesterday I tried to reinstall the OS, and tested many distros. One thing I noticed is that it is complete random. At one point I used a clean Debian Minimal SD Card that I'd just created and it didn't pass the fist login.

I've had the v2 version of this board a few months and mines very picky about bootiing, compiling and nic stability. The v3 had a nic resistor fixed.
So you should say what board ver you have not just the image. I just installed ayufan's latest focal unstable img and it's working well for a day now.
ssh hangs were a problem on lots of diff distro's I tried. There's a command for turning off tcp offload out there which helps but escapes me atm. ethtool eth0 tx rx off blah.

By default Linux only runs the rk3328 at (approx!) 1.3ghz maximum cpu frequency

But Armbian may add a patch to boost that to 1.5ghz


This may cause problems maybe ? If you don't have a good power supply or the cpu gets too hot perhaps


You can try to change the max frequency:


sudo echo 1296000 > /sys/bus/cpu/devices/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq