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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by kite » Wed May 02, 2018 8:46 am

I'm kind of out of options other than the stretch based image.. you can remove the cpu temperature monitoring from the script and probably also edit the bash.rc (or whichever file it is) to disable the temperature read and see if that helps.. very annoying this!

If you were feeling creative, if you image a STOCK raspbian to an SD, and replace the config.txt with the one from the CSO image.. you'll be able to boot it up and run! However you won't have working wifi because it needs special kernel modules to load which i haven't got easy instructions for..

You could then clone the CS git repo and run the install script and you should be 98% of the way there for a 'stock' image that works.. if that doesn't show the issue, that gives hope!
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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by c_hri_s » Wed May 02, 2018 9:15 am

I think we need wifi working to be able to replicate it; it only seems to hang up when you're doing big transfers.

I've tried with stock retropi and it didn't hang, but also didn't have wifi of course.

I could give it a go with on-board wifi disabled and an external wifi dongle if that would perhaps work. That'd tell us if it's the on-board wifi (or software) or the build.

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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by kite » Thu May 03, 2018 3:07 am

Indeed, or if you follow my stock steps and use USB wifi too, although if it's a software thing that no matter what method you use to transfer data it hits it won't really help..

A tip that may help, if you're on Windows you can use "Paragon ExtFS" (which is now "Paragon LinuxFS") : https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows/ which is free (at reduced speeds after 10 days, but the reduced speeds is perfectly acceptable for one off transfers!). Which allows you to just drag and drop on your PC without any fuss.
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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by Jfenton78 » Sun May 13, 2018 9:35 am

I've seen this same issue when uploading roms via SSH using WinSCP. I've not tried any troubleshooting at this point as I plan to order a new WiFi dongle. I'll post more details when I start testing. Can anyone clarify if this is related to the wifi module or the temp reading process?

Kite: Let me know if you need any files or data uploaded, but at this point it seem that we can either troubleshoot or wait for the stretch image to come out.

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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by Gauffre » Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:22 pm

Hi guys, same issue here. Just wondering if you managed to figure it out in the end?

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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by kite » Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:42 am

Gauffre wrote:
Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:22 pm
Hi guys, same issue here. Just wondering if you managed to figure it out in the end?
Does this happen if you disable wifi from the config.txt file? (https://github.com/kiteretro/Circuit-Sw ... completely)

It seems a 'thing' that if you transfer large files over windows shares it appears to freeze, not got to the bottom of that!
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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by Gauffre » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:47 am

I will try tonight !

The impact is very limited: It does not stop the transfer so when it happens I just restart the system once the transfer is done.

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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by c_hri_s » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:05 am

The best thing to do to avoid unclean 'hard' restarts on the SD card/Pi is to open a SSH session before you start transferring the data. From that SSH session you can initiate a restart or clean shutdown.

It's definitely a problem that exists (and Kite has swapped my board and CM3 to confirm it exists on multiple hardware), but only when transferring lots of data over Wifi. Windows shares/SAMBA/SCP seems to make no difference.

As I only transfer large files occasionally the workaround above or mounting the SD card directly on a PC both work for me.

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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by kite » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:13 am

Gauffre wrote:
Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:47 am
I will try tonight !

The impact is very limited: It does not stop the transfer so when it happens I just restart the system once the transfer is done.
Maybe i misread, but are you talking about transferring files? Not the "when idle" like in the title here says? If you do the thing i said it will disable wifi so obviously you can't transfer anything :P my response was because i thought you were talking about just general use on idle? Which would be more concerning to me hence trying to narrow it down!

If it's just when transferring files, yep, known thing, mount it to a PC using Paragon EXTFS or something and drag 'n' drop, it's also WAY quicker too..
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Re: CSO Freezes when idle

Post by Gauffre » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:31 am

Ok yeah, I misunderstood your first answer. I'll just use this workaround. Thanks for the tip !

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