[TM-TWIN-OE] TM-TWIN Random Reboots

[stilts]

Hello again,

I've just realized after reviewing a couple of guides that whilst I've been performing the flash updates I've not done the following step:

"When booting the receiver for the first time after flashing a new image Technomate advise that you start repeatedly pressing the EXIT button on front panel and keep repeatedly pressing EXIT for 10 seconds after power on."

If I've been missing this out could:

1. This be the problem, some sort of memory leak
2. The flash update be invalid somehow


Thanks again in advance!

 

[stilts]

Running the unix 'top' command shows the following memory stats, is this normal:

Mem: 137272k total, 119048k used, 18224k free, 340k buffers

So only around 18Mb free memory, this isn't something I've monitored so can't comment if it's been dropping to zero and then rebooting.


Thanks!

 

[stilts]

Hi Abu/Everyone,

I've this evening flashed again with the latest build (Apollo 064), this time remembering to continuously press the 'Exit' button after powering on again, memory stats looks similar to that of before:

Mem: 137272k total, 125952k used, 11320k free, 784k buffers

I've now also updated my settings to get the picons from internal flash, EPG from USB stick and therefore only using the internal hard disk for recordings/playback and timeshift.

Will provide a further update (positive or negative), fingers crossed for now.


Cheers!

 

[abu baniaz]

The exit button presses were to partition memory. I don't think they are needed any more. You wouldn't know what bootloader you have?

 

[stilts]

I flashed that too, it's the one on the current Vix bootloaders downloads for TM-TWIN.


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[stilts]

Oh well, no luck, another reboot.

Think I've tried pretty much everything I can think of now.

Might have to try a 4D image and see how it responds.


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[judge]

Try with timeshift disabled too.

 

[stilts]

Hi Judge,

What's your reason/thoughts for that, I've always had this enabled for all images?


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[cypchris]

i think you might find that you have a faulty power supply

 

[stilts]

Thanks cypchris,

What makes you think that, and is there any way that this can be diagnosed and proven?

The unit never powers off, just a screen freeze (no on screen errors/messages) followed by the reboot.

Cheers!


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[judge]

Hi Judge,

What's your reason/thoughts for that, I've always had this enabled for all images?

Just another thing to try & rule out if it's not the issue.

 

[stilts]

Hi Judge,

I've disabled timeshift for now, like you say something else to rule out.

Cheers!


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[stilts]

Hi Everyone,

No update from the box behavior at the moment, but thought I'd share this thread I found which appears to be quite similar to my experience:

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...ndom-shutdown-of-VU-Duo&highlight=cache+flush

I still have timeshift disabled but I have also enabled the swap file (256Mb) and installed the cache flush plugin too.


Also read the following which suggests that enabling the swap file on some older models is beneficial:

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?38477-Swap-manager-what-is-this&highlight=twin+swap



Cheers!

 

[stilts]

Update,

None of the above has helped either, a few reboots yesterday and another this morning.


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[stilts]

Well due to not getting anywhere with this issue I thought that I'd try to flash back to a 4D image, however, for some strange reason the box isn't giving me the standard 'New Software Found' message any more - can't understand why as the directory structure on the USB is that same for 4D as it is for Vix.

Tried putting a Vix image on the USB too just to check, however, the same problem.

I then went into the Vix image manager and restored an old image, during this I noticed a message saying '3 bad blocks', could this be the reason why it's no longer flashing?

Can I also copy the 4D image to the box and use Vix image manager to install it?



Cheers

 

[stilts]

Copied the 4D image file to hard disk and used Vix image manager to install/restore that image, this was successful.

I've setup everything on 4D as I would like (timeshift, recording paths etc).

I'll continue to monitor the box for reboots and report back.

If it doesn't reboot then I'm guessing that something's not quite right with the Vix image somewhere.

Cheers!


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[stilts]

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd provide a quick update on this, the 4D image has been rock solid since installing it, no reboots at all, everything running fine.

One observation I have made when installing this image was with the hard disk initialization, the Apollo release was not allowing me to run either a filesystem check nor initialization on the internal hard disk, I kept receiving an error message advising that the device couldn't be unmounted, however, the 4D image managed both of these tasks with no errors.

Not sure therefore if there is a driver issue/problem with the release of Apollo, as mentioned in my previous thread updates, I was running with the latest release in an attempt to resolve the rebooting, I didn't note though when I first observed the issue. A friend of mine also has a TM-TWIN, he is running Apollo 3, he has not encountered any reboots like myself.

If the box remains stable on 4D over the next couple of days I'm going to try and flash it with Apollo 3 and see how I get on (unless anyone else has a better suggestion?).


Cheers!

 

[stilts]

Update.

Day 4 running the 4D image now and no reboots at all, therefore this must be a problem with the Vix image (driver issues maybe?).

It's more important that I have a stable image running than anything else, however, there are quite a few features/plugins in Vix that I like running which aren't available in 4D.

So, can anyone advise of a 'rock solid' Vix image that they know runs on a TM-TWIN with no issues which also has a full stable set of drivers from Technomate running on it?


Thanks in advance.


stilts

 

[stilts]

Update.

Well after almost 1 week of running the 4D image and zero reboots I have this morning reflashed the TWIN with Apollo 071, everything setup as required, I even managed to access the storage/initialization menu and initialize the internal hard disk which I couldn't previously.

Keeping all fingers and toes crossed.

 

[abu baniaz]

Glad to hear for you.