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Between 2026-09-30 11:59 p.m. and 2026-11-01 12:00 a.m.
5:46 a.m.
3Bv1.2 ?? has no PoE header
5:50 a.m.
5:50 a.m.
PoE hat powreed v4 setup screen
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something is going on. net/nfs boot, pi4 sends the bitstream to the arty then reboots a minute later
9:33 a.m.
same pi with an sd card, brings up a gui desktop, no reboot
9:34 a.m.
I have trouble believing te arty is drawing so much power the pi reboots
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-04 11:28 p.m.
@carlfk - Could you check on the Acorns in the Compute Blade?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
@carlfk - Could you check on the Acorns in the Compute Blade?
They are still there 🙂
11:31 p.m.
they are wired to the switch, I could probably figure out which ports by turning them all on
11:32 p.m.
I'll be at ps1 in.. 18 hours ish.
11:32 p.m.
what sort of checking were you looking for?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-04 11:34 p.m.
From outside, at 10:01 today - The index lists nine boards: pi2, pi3, pi5, pi7, pi9, pi11, pi13, pi21 and pi23. None is an Acorn host. - The Compute Blade hosts have no page: pi14.html, pi16.html, pi18.html and pi20.html all answer 404. - ps1 has no fleet registry page (/fleet/ answers 404), so no boot-check result is visible from outside. Last direct look, 31 August (from my notes, not re-checked) ┌──────┬──────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Host │ Module │ On PCIe then │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi14 │ CM4 │ Acorn CLE-101, PCI ID 1e24:0101 │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi16 │ CM5 Lite │ Acorn CLE-101, PCI ID 1e24:0101 │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi18 │ CM4 │ nothing, M.2 slot empty │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi20 │ CM5 Lite │ a Xilinx card showing the generic ID 10ee:7011 │ └──────┴──────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All four blades were up that day. Not known - Whether those blades are powered today, what design is on the cards, or whether our boot check has ever run there.
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nice - I can power on those 4 ports
11:38 p.m.
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell all 4 were off. I just powered them all on.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-04 11:39 p.m.
@carlfk - I'll have some follow up instructions on how to "verify" they are wired up correctly.
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@Tim 'mithro' Ansell well.. I see 2 of them booting linux:
11:43 p.m.
('10.21.0.116', 6665) [ 9.991035] audit: type=1130 audit(1791157300.039:11): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=modprobe@fuse comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
11:44 p.m.
that same IP seems to have just rebooted
11:44 p.m.
i am wondering if some startup script is causing the reboot
11:45 p.m.
for sure I had a hack because something (camera process I think) didn't have a hostname (needed to tell nginx where video data was coming from )
11:46 p.m.
managing hostname has been ... tricky.
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sigh. somehow 16 has become stable
12:00 a.m.
pi@pi16:~ $ uptime 00:59:28 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 1.42, 1.10, 0.53
12:00 a.m.
120 is still rebooting
12:01 a.m.
120 = 10.21.0.120 = port 20
12:48 a.m.
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/fpgas-verify
12:48 a.m.
cat: /etc/default/fpgas-verify: No such file or directory
12:48 a.m.
that seems wrong
12:49 a.m.
but it might not matter
12:49 a.m.
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fpgas-verify $FPGAS_VERIFY_ARGS
12:54 a.m.
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell other than 'fail' I'm not sure how to read this
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carlfk
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell other than 'fail' I'm not sure how to read this
ssh -p 11622 pi@ps1.fpgas.online
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gah. 20 finely deiced not to reboot
2:56 a.m.
pi@pi20:~ $ uptime 03:55:35 up 2:21, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.07
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
From outside, at 10:01 today - The index lists nine boards: pi2, pi3, pi5, pi7, pi9, pi11, pi13, pi21 and pi23. None is an Acorn host. - The Compute Blade hosts have no page: pi14.html, pi16.html, pi18.html and pi20.html all answer 404. - ps1 has no fleet registry page (/fleet/ answers 404), so no boot-check result is visible from outside. Last direct look, 31 August (from my notes, not re-checked) ┌──────┬──────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Host │ Module │ On PCIe then │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi14 │ CM4 │ Acorn CLE-101, PCI ID 1e24:0101 │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi16 │ CM5 Lite │ Acorn CLE-101, PCI ID 1e24:0101 │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi18 │ CM4 │ nothing, M.2 slot empty │ ├──────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ pi20 │ CM5 Lite │ a Xilinx card showing the generic ID 10ee:7011 │ └──────┴──────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All four blades were up that day. Not known - Whether those blades are powered today, what design is on the cards, or whether our boot check has ever run there.
CM4 the 4 is for Pi v4 , right?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-05 4:11 a.m.
@carlfk - I'm getting a bunch of stuff for you for these boards.
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Oct 04 22:46:59 kas1 dnsmasq-tftp[1228]: sent /srv/tftp/4e45f174/kernel8.img to 10.21.0.118
4:14 a.m.
tftp sends to the 2 CM4x and they don't seem to do anything after that
4:14 a.m.
the 2 CM5s start sending kernel boot messages
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omg - 14 and 18 just booted all the way!
7:29 p.m.
and 16 went to sleep.
7:30 p.m.
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell these boards (or maybe just CM?) are super weird
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14 18 20 up. 16 boot looping
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16 woke uj. all 4 are up. I don't understand.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-05 9:42 p.m.
@carlfk - I think Claude might have fixed it.....
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Claude fixed my server?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-05 10:56 p.m.
@carlfk - I'm not 100% happy with the output but this is what it wrote for you at the moment - https://ten64.welland.mithis.com/~tim/ps1-compute-blades-draft9-Letter.pdf
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
@carlfk - I think Claude might have fixed it.....
what did claud fix?
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arg. none of the pi are staying booted.
7:21 p.m.
nmap shows 22 open for a second, then gone and the server starts sending boot files again.
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amazing - the cm blade at 20 is staying up
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and now 16.
8:32 p.m.
none of the Pi v3 or v4 Arty kits. just the 2 blades
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03 booted from an SD card but PoE power and is solid, so hard to say it is a power problem
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-07 10:25 p.m.
@carlfk - What is the state of the arty boards at ps1?
10:26 p.m.
@carlfk - Are you still at PS1?
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I am not there yet, but just finished liuch so now I am getting ready to go
10:27 p.m.
state: nmap shows 22 open on 7 9 16 20. 3 too, but that doesn't count as it is booted from a stock SD RaspiOS
10:28 p.m.
If I power cycle 7 9 16 20 I expectr them to reboot a few 100 times and the maybe stay booted
10:28 p.m.
I have no idea why that happens
10:29 p.m.
oh hey, 7 and 9 just went away. just 16 and 20 now.
10:29 p.m.
summery: big mess
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on my way - eta 15m
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I have arrived.
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Make it stop rebooting!!!
1:50 a.m.
SD card fine. pull SD and let ti netboot, loop forever
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@Tim 'mithro' Ansell I am at ps1. about done here. did you want me to check on anything
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carlfk
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell I am at ps1. about done here. did you want me to check on anything
leaving ps1 heading home. probably back in 18 hours.
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the 4 blade pis are up, and one pi: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3pi@pi7
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carlfk
the 4 blade pis are up, and one pi: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3pi@pi7
Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-09 9:51 p.m.
What does the RPi 3b+ have?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
What does the RPi 3b+ have?
hjave? like it hse the cheep POE dongle?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-09 9:56 p.m.
@carlfk - No FPGA wise - an arty?
9:58 p.m.
I swapped x86 server, rebuild the os/stuff. didn't really touch the switch/cables/pi setup -
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-09 9:59 p.m.
@carlfk - I'm still not happy with the instructions the AI has written for you - https://ten64.welland.mithis.com/~tim/ps1-compute-blades-copy24-Letter.pdf
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and regardless I don't understand how what is happening is possible
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
@carlfk - I'm still not happy with the instructions the AI has written for you - https://ten64.welland.mithis.com/~tim/ps1-compute-blades-copy24-Letter.pdf
I skimmed that - I dont think that will help wiht the current reboot almost forever problem
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-09 10:01 p.m.
@carlfk - I have not been looking at the reboot almost forever problem. Did you want me to look into that?
10:05 p.m.
I am about to faf around with https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd#usage to try and get a clue from journalctl --file=/var/log/journal/remote/remote-10.21.0.103.journal
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10:06 p.m.
which is the system logs from 10.21.0.103
10:07 p.m.
all the pi have power. I have no idea why onlye some of them dont log
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j = journal.Reader(files=["/var/log/journal/remote/remote-10.21.0.103.journal"])
10:43 p.m.
print(entry['MESSAGE'])
10:43 p.m.
unit_file_build_name_map: normal unit file: /usr/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target
10:44 p.m.
poweroff is specious :p
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.get_previous() looks useful
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@Tim 'mithro' Ansell are you / claud logged into ps1 box? someone is. I'm trying to test _netdev things
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carlfk
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell are you / claud logged into ps1 box? someone is. I'm trying to test _netdev things
Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2026-10-22 10:41 p.m.
I don't think so?
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
I don't think so?
huh. something was doing stuff. didn't look human. shrug.
10:57 p.m.
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell do you have code to detect if the pi has a camera? like the blades don't so the systemd cam.service thrashes and fills up the logs
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell
I don't think so?
ssh -p 10322 pi@ps1.fpgas.online it happened again. pop in and see the bash history
3:00 p.m.
I'm wondering if someone elses AI is .. AIing around
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