Haiku in endless re-boot cycle

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Hi all,

My Haiku machine went into an endless reboot cycle. Can’t remember which hrev it is, but around late 2018 or maybe 2019 I think. The computer has been working fine for about a year or more. No changes were made on it when it started doing this. It started doing this after I manually rebooted it from the start menu today (it was running fine before I rebooted).

Anyway, it goes through all the splash screen icons normally, then the mouse cursor shows up on the blue desktop background, but nothing else is on the screen except for a small blank popup window. Then exactly 60 seconds later, it reboots automatically, then repeats. I noticed I can log into it via VNC, FTP, and SSH during the 60 seconds it’s booted. I was able to download a system log file via FTP before a reboot. It has the following three lines which repeat over and over in the log:

KERN: check_sense: Illegal request
KERN: ata 0 error: command failed, error bit is set. status 0x51, error 0x54
KERN: atapi 0-0 error: device indicates transfer error after dma

Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks for any help.

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So afaik from the three lines of output you’ve shared it’s clear the system has an error bit set; I did a search and it looks similar to this https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6153

Maybe give disabling DMA in the boot options a try and see if this helps? Also check the disks if you have a Live DVD or USB.

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Two things that come to mind:

  • if you have a CD/DVD drive, try to un plug it and remove it from the computer

  • as to the HDD, check in the BIOS that it’s used in AHCI mode, not in ATA/IDE emulation mode.

HTH

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Thanks guys,

The problem ended up being that the partition was filled up, no more space.

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Well, it should manage this better and show some kind of error message instead of just rebooting, still. Cam you open a bugreport about it?