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11:45   Low lost communication with its emerald boards around 11:00.

rebooted Rebooted low and everything back up.

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Those were the only messages before the reboot, and they occurred at least 23 hours earlier, which means the problem is not due to a kernel oops, or any other atypical event that the kernel could detect. It is just the good ol' situation where there seems to be a very small but finite possibly possibility that a PC104 interrupt can be missed, and not retriggered, even though the PC104 IRQ interrupt line is high, such that the interrupt handler is never again called.

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root@low root# irqs
Counting interrupts over 5 seconds ...

IRQ      Interrupt Type            Total Int  Int/sec   
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3:       ISA serial:               1376       275.2     
24:      GPIO-l eth0:              62         12.4      
25:      GPIO-l GPIO1-PC104:       1376       275.2     
36:      SC serial:                15         3         
37:      SC serial:                101        20.2      
42:      SC ost0:                  509        101.8     
114:     GPIO isp116x-hcd:usb1:    90         18        
115:     GPIO serial:              228        45.6      
116:     GPIO serial:              102        20.4