Hello. I had a new Pi 5 with the latest bookworm updates working for several days and was OK with it.
It boots from a good Samsung 32Gb SD card.
I have 2 USB3 hubs with 7 disks attached, the hubs plugged into the Pi 5' 2x USB3 ports.
I had gone through the procedure for getting them recognised (autoboot interferes and causes boot to hang so one can't login, so I turned that off via Preferences in File Explorer).
I had it all working, and had rebooted it about 20 times for various reasons, no issues at all.
Then I unplugged a disk and popped it into the other USB3 hub and rebooted 'sudo reboot'.
No problems, a bit of checking disk mounts then all good. A couple of reboots later still good.
Then I reversed that and popped it back into the original port in the original USB3 hub and rebooted 'sudo reboot'.
That's when, looking at the realtime boot listing before it gets to the desktop, a number of times at intervals the same error got displayed: cannot start accounts service (I should have written it down).
Then it stopped at the commandline, for 30 secs or ... so then I tried to enter a command and the desktop login screen appeared, nixing that idea.
So, I entered the login details and that's where it stopped before I ran out of patience and rebooted.
Every reboot thereafter did the same.
AFAIK, I have not gone anywhere near any accounts service and the "only" thing I have done is swapped a couple of USB3 disks around and manually mounted/dismounted/mounted then (via fstab: mount -a -v) then rebooted.
Given it seemed irrecoverable, I am in the process of re-imaging the SD card to start again.
So, does anyone have suggestions for possibly what went belly up and why, and/or advice for the future ?
Thanks
PS
I was testing file transfer speeds and only got as far as 2 tests.
(i) transferring 21Gb from one disk to another ON THE SAME HUB went at 3.6 megabytes/sec. A real trickle and totally unacceptable.
(ii) transferring the same 21Gb from one disk to another ON 2 DIFFERENT HUBS went at 89 megabytes/sec. Not enormous but acceptable.
I do not know if it's the hubs or the Pi + the hubs.
Can only test that by plugging the hubs into a PC and repeating the tests, which I will do.
I also hope they did not somehow fallback to a lower USB spec connection, I'm not sure how to determine that on the Pi.
It boots from a good Samsung 32Gb SD card.
I have 2 USB3 hubs with 7 disks attached, the hubs plugged into the Pi 5' 2x USB3 ports.
I had gone through the procedure for getting them recognised (autoboot interferes and causes boot to hang so one can't login, so I turned that off via Preferences in File Explorer).
I had it all working, and had rebooted it about 20 times for various reasons, no issues at all.
Then I unplugged a disk and popped it into the other USB3 hub and rebooted 'sudo reboot'.
No problems, a bit of checking disk mounts then all good. A couple of reboots later still good.
Then I reversed that and popped it back into the original port in the original USB3 hub and rebooted 'sudo reboot'.
That's when, looking at the realtime boot listing before it gets to the desktop, a number of times at intervals the same error got displayed: cannot start accounts service (I should have written it down).
Then it stopped at the commandline, for 30 secs or ... so then I tried to enter a command and the desktop login screen appeared, nixing that idea.
So, I entered the login details and that's where it stopped before I ran out of patience and rebooted.
Every reboot thereafter did the same.
AFAIK, I have not gone anywhere near any accounts service and the "only" thing I have done is swapped a couple of USB3 disks around and manually mounted/dismounted/mounted then (via fstab: mount -a -v) then rebooted.
Given it seemed irrecoverable, I am in the process of re-imaging the SD card to start again.
So, does anyone have suggestions for possibly what went belly up and why, and/or advice for the future ?
Thanks
PS
I was testing file transfer speeds and only got as far as 2 tests.
(i) transferring 21Gb from one disk to another ON THE SAME HUB went at 3.6 megabytes/sec. A real trickle and totally unacceptable.
(ii) transferring the same 21Gb from one disk to another ON 2 DIFFERENT HUBS went at 89 megabytes/sec. Not enormous but acceptable.
I do not know if it's the hubs or the Pi + the hubs.
Can only test that by plugging the hubs into a PC and repeating the tests, which I will do.
I also hope they did not somehow fallback to a lower USB spec connection, I'm not sure how to determine that on the Pi.
Statistics: Posted by hydra3333 — Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:12 am — Replies 0 — Views 31