>From what Gerald said previously in this thread:

"The reset is an input pin read by the processor, not actually a HW power 
reset. If the SW is locked up, this could happen.”

Regards,
John




> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:55 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If the board was in sleep, then why wont the reset button reset ? Passed 
> that, why would the USR cycle( flash on then off ) then nothing ?
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, John Syne <john3...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:john3...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Sounds to me that like BBB has gone into sleep mode and there is no trigger 
> to wake it up. Is there a way to measure the current consumption? 
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:40 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:yyrk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> One more thing of note. I do not run systemd - Ever. I run SYSV as an init 
>> daemon. I only mention this as I think Robert said something about systemd 
>> lessening this issue.
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org 
>> <mailto:ger...@beagleboard.org>> wrote:
>> Hmm, not sure what is going on. Sounds like the processor has stopped 
>> running the code and halted but it forgot to turn off the lights.
>> 
>> Gerald
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:yyrk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Gerald, it's like the board hangs at power down, but I can not be 100% sure. 
>> The reason why I "assume" it's at power down, is that the heartbeat blink 
>> stops, but the rest of the LEDs stay on, and the ethernet port light still 
>> blinks.
>> 
>> The board I experienced this on last night is an Element14 RevC, but I do 
>> also have a circuitco A5A that exhibits the same thing.
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org 
>> <mailto:ger...@beagleboard.org>> wrote:
>> Is this on power up or is this state happening some time later? If it is on 
>> power up, then the power supply most likely is the issue based on the ramp 
>> requirements of the PMIC. 
>> 
>> If the power LED is on, then the PMIC is on and ramped up. That is why I 
>> asked for the voltages.
>> 
>> It also could be a boot pin read issue where it misreads the boot pins. If 
>> that is the case you should see that from the serial port.
>> 
>> Gerald
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:15 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:yyrk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> For what it's worth Gerald, this happens with nothing connected to the board 
>> as well. This just happened to me last night after issuing a reboot command 
>> from the command line.
>> 
>> I remember at some point you all were talking about something about the 
>> "ramp time" of the PMIC or something.
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org 
>> <mailto:ger...@beagleboard.org>> wrote:
>> I would start with your cape design and try and rule that out first.
>> 
>> The reset is an input pin read by the processor, not actually a HW power 
>> reset. If the SW is locked up, this could happen.
>> 
>> If you hold the power button for a 8 seconds or more the board should power 
>> cycle.
>> 
>> When it is in this state, what do the voltages read?
>> 
>> Gerald
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Ross <jonr...@nephology.org 
>> <mailto:jonr...@nephology.org>> wrote:
>> Once in a blue moon one of my beaglebones will get into a state where it has 
>> power (the power LED is lit), but it is not booted. Normally this would be 
>> fine, just hit the power button to reset. But in this weird state the power 
>> button does nothing. The reset button does nothing.
>> I checked the power and reset button pins on the header, the power was low, 
>> the reset was high.
>> The only way to get the board out of this state was to pull the 5V power.
>> I'm using a KL16 on a cape to do a watchdog on the BB, and reboot it via 
>> power and/or reset buttons on the header if the BB stops sending checkins 
>> over uart. This has been working great, except for the rare case where the 
>> board ends up in this state where the power and reset buttons are not 
>> functioning.
>> Any ideas how the BB could get into this state, and if there's any other way 
>> to force a reboot other than physically pulling the 5v power?
>> Thanks,
>> JR
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