On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:30:04AM +0000, Lukas Göstl via Devel wrote:
> The Mesh Network runs well for about 2 - 3 hours. Then some wireless
> adapters get stuck and do not response anymore. They need a Powercycle
> to work again.
> 
> Has anybody an idea why this happens or what`s the best way to debug
> such a problem? I don't get any output in syslog.

Just the adapters but not the OS on the mesh node?  Does re-plugging the
device without rebooting recover?

If so, it's probably a firmware or driver bug then, which are unfortunately
harder to debug.  One option is to get access to the UART on the device
and then hookup a serial console, then you can at least add adf_os_print()
calls in the firmware to debug [1].

I've seen these devices get stuck in a state where they stop sending any
frames at all, which you can see in debugfs on the host -- one of the files
(can't remember the filename right now) shows available TX slots and it
quickly fills completely up without anything going over the air.  But I
never root-caused this and haven't reproduced it recently.

[1] See http://bobcopeland.com/blog/2015/05/dwm-w034-uart/ and
http://bobcopeland.com/blog/2015/05/reserialized/ for two devices where UART
access is not too hard.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/
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