[arm-allstar] Software ver 1.2 and BBB ver B

[Doug Crompton]

Hi Jim,

 Sorry to hear you are having a problem with your BBB. I can tell you that there are scores of both B and C models out there that work fine with 1.2.1 so I doubt it has anything to do with it being the B model. That being said there can sometimes be idiosyncrasies that happen. One thing that we know about is a possible boot problem in some case if the EMMC code is missing or damaged but I doubt this is your problem as it does seem to be booting up fine with the failure coming later. Does it boot to the native code (emmc boot) without the SD card installed?

One possible problem that I have not personally seen might be the SD card itself or the SD card running in that particular BBB. What SD cards are you using? Another issue that comes up more than any is power supply problems but if it works with one version and not the other then I doubt that would be it.   

The problems you are reporting should never happen with the 1.2.1 code. Do you have other BBB's running the latest version without problems? Perhaps you got a bad download or write to the SD card.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:05:05 -0800
> From: n8pxw at yahoo.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Software ver 1.2 and BBB ver B
> 
>   I have a problem running the new version software v1.2, on the BBB rev B board. I got everything up and running with ver 1.2 a few nights ago. I had an Echolink connect running fine. The next morning the USB audio FOB was dark, no heartbeat LED. I unplugged the FOB, and reinserted it. No lights. I could login to the BBB with putty, so I restarted Asterisk. Still no lights. Finally I did a shutdown -r now. The BBB came back up with the FOB green led flashing after a min or so. I checked back in an hour or two, the fob was dead again. Same story, I had to shutdown and restart the opsys. This went on for a couple of days. Finally, I transferred the SD card to my backup board a BBB rev C. No problems, the boards been running for 2 or 3 days. I thought that the old BBB rev B took a crap. For grins, I reloaded the previous ver 1.1 on an SD card and brought up the rev B BBB board. It's been running for over 24hr with not a hang. It appears that the new rev
>  1.2 has a problem with the old rev B BBB board. At least, it does with mine. Has anyone else had this problem?
>     JimK  N8PXW
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