This tag should be used to discuss bugs that have caused errors and failures within your Raspberry Pi. These failures can be due to overclocking, applications, and other reasons. Please note your OS before using this tag.
Questions tagged [failure]
58 questions
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Shutdown, reboot not working
I often SSH into my Raspberry Pi, which is connected to my network via a wired connection. The last time I tried to reboot it, though, it failed:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ shutdown now -bash: /sbin/shutdown: cannot execute binary file
pi@raspberrypi ~ $…
PitaJ
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failed to start udev kernel device manager
After hardly rebooting my raspberry pi 2 running raspian it does not work anymore, when I turn it on everything works fine until this error message shows up repeatedly.
[FAILED] Failed to start udev Kernel Device Manager
The machine then goes to…
Liam Giannini
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Random Freezes on B+
My Raspberry Pi B+ has started to freeze randomly for a few seconds only to continue as if nothing has happened.
I'm connecting over SSH only (no keyboard/monitor) and at least once a minute it will freeze for about 10-60 seconds.
I already…
laktak
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Detect an SD card that became read-only
Recently my SD card died, becoming permanently locked in a read-only state. I realized it a few weeks after the fact, when I saw that files I would create disappeared after a reboot. Of course, all changes I've done in these couple of weeks are also…
Dmitry Grigoryev
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Defect Raspberry Pi as source of fire
I assume that many of you use the raspberry pi (or another single board computer) as 24/7 server at home, so I'd like to ask a question which I've been discussing recently with a coworker:
Is it possible that some kind of hardware defect causes the…
user236012
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Overclock after power failure not possible
Immediately after install, I've overclocked my raspberry (1 GHz). After power failure today (the whole building) I can't overclock it again. First I tried:
sudo raspi-config
Then I tried to make the same as root - without success. I don't want to…
cupakob
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Raspberry Pi constantly faulting
I have 3 Raspberries set up in cases with holes in them.
Each Raspberry has a microcontroller and a wireless adapter attached via USB.
Two Raspberries have been working fine for 5 months now. However, one setup fails constantly.
I replaced the…
s1ck
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Broken Pi - plugging in monitor fixed it
I recently flew a mission on a balloon satellite. A raspberry Pi was the core of my project, but unfortunately, at 100 km, the Raspberry Pi failed. I retrieved the satellite and noticed the Pi wouldn't boot. I tried everything. Finally, after…
Nick
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Is my SD-card defective?
I currently use a raspberry-pi that I connect over with SSH, since it`s physical location is >100km far away. After running 1.5 years, it has now some I/O-errors when writing into the database. In the syslog, I found the following entries:
Jan 28…
moosehead42
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Error while Starting Raspbian
Enviroment:
Device: Rasberry Pi 2
OS: Raspbian
Last sign of life: 8.March 2021
Problem
Since 8th of march I've got no message of my raspberry pi, so I get them and try to boot with a connected monitor.
On the picture you can see the error message.…
michael-mammut
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Why does my raspberry failt to boot with a wii nunchuck connected
I have connected 3 different official nunchucks to my raspberry the following way;
pin 1: 3.3v,
pin 3: SDA,
pin 5: SLC,
pin 6: GND
I tried several power supplies including a 230 watt pc psu but every time my raspberry wont boot or shutsdown after…
thommie
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ BLE peripheral : Android can't retrieve services list, OK with iPhone and Win10
I try to make a Raspberry Pi 3B+ act as a BLE peripheral.
I downloaded latest version (5.50) of bluez stack here : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git.
I execute provided examples in /test/ directory.
When I run…
fdamien12
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Raspberry Pi 3 B not working after interrupting the Raspbian Upgrade
I was upgrading my ADC Hat mounted(no other sensors), Raspberry Pi 3 B (Stretch installed) using;
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
During the middle of the upgrade, there was a message with some information(which I couldn't remember…
Sachz
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Multiple Raspberry PI web servers with fail over?
What I have:
5 Raspberry PI running the same software software stack
each one has a priority (lower number is higher priority) index and monitors the other 4 via udp
One lan
all 5 pis ping the rest every minute
each pi has an arduino+ethernet…
vlad b.
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Raspberry Pi boot stops right after the rainbow splash screen
My R-PI has been working fine for the past 5 days in a row with the official Soft-float Debian "wheezy", it was hard powered off by removing the plug from the wall, now the boot stops at the screen after the colored splash, the screen is completely…
Arjuna Del Toso
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