Questions tagged [crash]

This tag is for questions about a Raspberry Pi that boots, but crashes after boot.

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My Pi keeps crashing — where should I look?

I know my problem is too vague to solve the root problem. Please help me on my way. My problem I have a Pi setup with owncloud. And a external hard drive with videos on it. It just functions as a NAS. I use SFTP for all my connections. But it…
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How am I supposed to set GPU memory in RPi4?

I have been using RPi4 for a while and I have found some problems playing videos on VLC and YouTube. After searching for a long time, I found that these problems can be solved by increasing GPU memory. I found that option in the Raspberry Pi…
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How to revert from rpi-update to stable build

I have been using a RPi3 for the last year without any issues. I have had rpi-update as part of a regular update process (cron job). Lately I have been experiencing crashes. I started to investigate, and while there is nothing helpful in the syslog…
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Raspberry Pi 3 Freezes

My Raspberry Pi 3 Model B freezes randomly. This as been going on since I got it, about 4 months ago. It sometimes freezes on reboot causing reboot loops. It freezes on Chromium when all that's open is 1 Chromium tab. The CPU has 100% usage, when…
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ freezes randomly

General setup My RPi is connected to a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. My swap size is set to 1000 MB and I'm not using wifi. Problem The RPi freezes randomly, meaning the GUI is frozen, no SSH connection is possible, and Magic + reisub doesn't work,…
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Crashes under load – how to investigate?

I'm running my RPi B in headless mode, controlling it via SSH (Raspbian). I used to get random crashes under load, until I got a better power supply. Now, I've found the problem has re-surfaced. I'm trying to compile a new version of Python, and it…
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Pin powered Pi crashes when servos move

I have been working on a circuit to power a Raspberry Pi and servo(s) from a single power source. The diagram below shows the basic configuration, although the 'AA battery' is actually two 18650s. The screw terminal on the right of the image…
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Pi shuts down every day at 11:23 PM

I have a Pi Zero W running Raspbian Stretch Lite (June 2018). I'm using it to turn the crank on an automatic cat feeder. I've barely changed the base configuration: apt-get-installed git and samba, used Python's pip to install wiringpi and psutil,…
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Epiphany crashes

I have the Epiphany web browser running 24/7 to display up-to-date weather on a monitor from WeatherUnderground but it keeps on crashing by next morning. I am not sure how to figure out what is causing this. Sometimes you have to also reboot the…
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Schrodingers PI; dead or alive?

last days one of my Pi2 crashed over night. At morning i realized the Pi is down (no response on network, plugged to monitor and keyboard did not give any response) I plug out/in the power supply to restart the Pi. The red and green LED are on…
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SD card related random freezes

I am using raspberry pi 2 (B+) in a biology lab to do real time tracking of small insects. Basically, we have an python/opencv program that detect positions of animals and saves it in a MySQL db. We typically run experiments for 2 weeks on sometimes…
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After upgrade to Jessie, crashes when external USB drive is connected

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 which was running successfully with Wheezy. I decided to upgrade to Jessie. When I plug in the external USB drive (LaCie Rugged THB USB 3.0), it crashes. I did an ssh and tailed the log while I plugged in the USB external…
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RT patch is freezing

I have patched PREEMPT-RT for Raspbian Linux kernel. It works fine for normal operations (web browsing or short time programs) the following is the output of uname -a of my Rapsberry Pi 2 after patching My problem is this systems is freezing for…
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Everything is dead, but Pi 3B still boots

I left my Pi 3B (V1.2) alone, running a 64-bit build of Debian for a project. Everything was fine. When I returned, however, I found that everything was dead. Nothing was connected to it, by the way. At first glance, it was legitimately dead and…
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Pi crashes without apparent reason

I own a Pi4 (4GB), and I'm having some issues. The pi crashes with no apparent reason. By crashes I mean it becomes unreacheable via ssh, PiHole and HomeAssistant that are running on it become unaccessible, and pugging in a monitor just gives "No…
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