Currently using Armbian as a PiHole DNS server, it seems that after a few days the server just shuts itself down (Armbian 25.5.1 Noble 6.12).  Not sure if it is a hardware related issue, I'll do some more tests and revert back to 25.2.2 Bookworm for now and see if the issue is replicated.

 

Please note that my primary Armbian PiHole DNS does not encounter the same issue, though the version of it is Noble v25.2.3 / 6.12.30. 

On 7/12/2025 at 6:18 AM, ER Samson said:

it seems that after a few days the server just shuts itself down

 

Board usually shuts down in case it reached critical temperatures. Can you add a heatsink?

I have an orangepione running bookworm and am not having any problems with it.

 

I will load up another unit with noble and see how it runs.

 

v25.5.1 for Orange Pi One running Armbian Linux 6.12.30-current-sunxi

 Packages:     Debian stable (bookworm)
 IPv4:         (LAN) 192.168.1.65 (WAN) 209.121.228.132
 IPv6:         fd05:ce26:d593:0:81:2fff:fe1a:671e (WAN) 2001:569:5143:f100:81:2fff:fe1a:671e

 Performance:

 Load:         2%               Up time:       11 days 2:09
 Memory usage: 19% of 484M      Zram usage:    1% of 1.00G
 CPU temp:     36°C              Usage of /:   31% of 15G
 

@ER Samson To help figure out why your unit is stopping you could connect to it via an ssh session and as root run "journalctl -f".  this might catch any error messages just prior to failure. When running with logs in zram, as Armbian does, the last messages in the logs are quite often lost when the system abruptly stops.

Thanks, I was on vacation since July 16, apologies for the late reply. I added a fan for now, let's see if it doesn't turn off.

Just wanted to close this off after a two-week test.  With the fan, it did not shutdown at all.  Pretty much the issue is overheating.  Thanks for all the help!

thank you for reporting back, @ER Samson