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

[Jim Korenz]

Hi Doug,
   I thought that it might be power supply problems also, but I'm using the coaxial power connector and upgraded to a 2 Amp 5V supply. I still had problems. I removed the SD card with ver 1.2 from the BBB rev B board and plugged it into the rev C BBB using the same supply, and it runs with no problems. I'm using "Lexar" 16 GB SD cards. I'm not sure what else to try. I can always keep running 1.1 on the rev B board, the opsys only hung 3 or 4 times over a 6 month period, and I attributed that to power problems.
    JimK  N8PXW

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On Thu, 1/8/15, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Software ver 1.2 and BBB ver B
 To: "BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
 Date: Thursday, January 8, 2015, 8:12 PM
 
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 #yiv6484388253 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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