Connection refused after reboot

Troubleshooting
#1

Hi all,

I’m using an oDroid HC1 and DietPi to downsize my home media server. I’ve successfully installed and booted up, and installed the likes of Samba and qBittorrrent. Then I’ve attached a USB hard disk containing my existing home media server files and started to copy them across to the HC1’s hard disk.

However, as soon as I do a sudo reboot on the machine, it refuses to allow me back in. I just get ‘Connection refused’ - and no amount of power-off resets on the HC1 seems to make any difference. It’s done this twice now.

This is almost certainly me instead of a problem with DietPi, but it seems a strange one. Has anyone any idea why the reboot would be causing such a problem? An issue with booting back up, perhaps, meaning that the OS never gets to the point where it can accept SSH logins?

Hope someone can help.

Kind regards,

Discy

#2

discmeister
Thanks for your report and sorry for the late reply.

This is why I’m no fans of SBCs without HDMI port: Hard to access local console, if the system does not reach SSH connectivity.

To sort out which step might have caused an issue:

  • I guess you went through system reboots before, when installing samba and qbittorrent?
  • Did you try to do another reboot just before you start with attaching the HDD and copying the files?

How did you attach/mount the HDD? Via dietpi-drive_manager or manually using “mount” command or adding it to fstab?
If an fstab entry has no “nofail” option and the drive is detached, boot will fail, missing the drive.