[sudo-access] front door computer randomly turns itself off

[Marc Juul]

the power plug had been pulled out of the wall today. jenny and lesley
fixed it.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> this has happened in the past and a couple of times this week, i think,
> that
> the computer that handles the front door magnetic stripe reader shuts
> itself
> off for some reason.
>
> it's a beaglebone black and there is no reason it should shut off.  there
> are
> no logs as to why because we generally run it in read-only mode on the main
> disk, and logs are kept on a RAM disk.
>
> here's someone else talking about the same issue:
> http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php?topic=5547.0
>
> when it's off, it has power but there are no lights on.  pressing the power
> button turns it on.  wtf?
>
> i could make a watchdog circuit that power-cycles it if this happens, but i
> don't think that's really the right solution.  does someone want to take
> this
> on and figure out wtf is going on?
>
> probably using a USB stick for system logs would be a good start, and maybe
> some increased level of logging.
>
> -jake
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