On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> the Dextrose team has been hunting a bug on XO-1.5, on their variant
> of 11.3.x ("Dextrose 3" or DX3), and they are pointing out that it
> could be a latent or unreported problem in 11.3.x series. It could
> also be a problem in their modifications.
>
> While they continue to investigate, it is important to hear whether
> anyone has seen XO-1.5s handing during shutdown, on the "Warnings"
> screen.
>
>  - It seems to affect some units, not all. So far it has been seen on
> 3 units with SN starting with SHC037 .
>
>  - Units affected show the symptoms 2 out of 5 boots.
>
>  - Seems to be related to umount of /home failing. Adding sync ; sleep
> 2; before umount seems to cure it; that's their current workaround.
>
>  - Their debugging adventures are documented at
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1033
>
>  - They will be checking whether the symptoms follow the microSD card
> or the motherboard, swapping microSD with a "good" unit.
>
> Why is this important? When the unit hangs during shutdown, it is left
> in a condition where it can overheat, potentially damaging the unit.
>
> The bottom line: have you seen this issue on XO-1.5 + 11.3.x? Even if
> ocassionally? Let us know, and join the bug-hunting party.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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While I haven't seen the exact symptoms described here, I have seen
some problems here in Chachapoyas. XO 1.5s running 11.3.1. It seems
that machines that are running for quite some time with very active
use eventually hang. I grabbed some longs from a Browse session, which
seems to be the activity running when the crashes happen, but looking
at the logs, it seems to be something failing at a lower level. See
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3678

Also, at times, Restart fails to restart.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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