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APPS IMU stopped producing data mid flight

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  • Rowan DempsterR Offline
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    During a recent flight the voxl-imu-server stopped producing data with this error:

    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54514 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54515 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54516 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54517 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54518 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54519 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54520 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: ERROR icm42688_fifo_read: buffer was empty 54521 times in a row
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]:  imu 0
    May 09 19:49:48 m0054 voxl-imu-server[1750]: WARNING bad reading on imu 0
    

    after restarting the service it failed again

    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: aux_imu3_enable:                 0
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: aux_imu3_spi_bus:                5
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: aux_imu3_sample_rate_hz:         1000.0
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: aux_imu3_lp_cutoff_freq_hz:      92.0
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: aux_imu3_fifo_poll_rate_hz:      100.0
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: =================================================================
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: thread is locked to cores: 0 1 2 3
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: Detected M0054 VOXL2
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 voxl-imu-server[7425]: Initializing IMU0
    May 09 19:51:14 m0054 systemd[1]: voxl-imu-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    

    after rebooting the voxl2 it was fine again, but I'm sure it will happen again given enough time, already seen it twice.

    Any ideas what is up here or just a faulty voxl2? We have dozens of other voxl2s that haven't seen this issue.

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