Cerbo GX seems dead

Q&A and troubleshooting
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I noticed some strange behaviour from my Cerbo GX last months.
From time to time the Cerbo did not respond anymore and had to reboot it. All lights on the Cerbo were off. The frist couple of times booting worked directly, what I noticed later on is that it did not boot all the time directly and had to make it powerless and apply power again. Sometimes it worked after 2 times, last week it took me more then 10 times to be able to boot it again.

From yesterday I am not able to boot it at all. Normally the orange light flashes after a few second you apply power, now nothing anymore.
The ethernet lights do blink when applying power and that’s the only thing I can see. If you look through the 2 leds you can see a tiny red light going on when applying power (think some pcb led power supply)

What did I try yesterday:

  • Keep the device off for an hour to make sure there is no capacity in any capacitors anymore.

  • Add a HDMI display to see any output, nothing to see, screen says no input.

  • Downloaded the recovery image, put it on a usb drive and let it boot again, nothing happened.

  • Downloaded the einstein image, put it on a sd card and let it boot. The orange light blinks but nothing on the HDMI, no network connection. Let do for 30 minutes and rebooted without SD, still nothing.

  • Tried a different voltage (battery is 48V, tried a 12V adapter and 19V adapter).

    The device id is HQ2345, if I am correct I do not need to add a capacitor of 100uF on the power lines.

The link to the recovery manual can be found here: 19. Reset to factory defaults and Venus OS reinstall (I tried article 19.1 and 19.2).

What else can I try to fix the Cerbo? For me it seems like the internal memory is corrupt or dead.
I’ve read something about applying a serial cable, does someone know how to do that? I have a ttl to usb converter and some pinheaders.

Really hope someone can help me out.

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Hi @Lithium,

There is nothing more to try, please get in touch with your Victron dealer for a warranty RMA.

You didn’t mention if you were running any custom software modifications or anything like that. If you were, I would strongly advise to just run it with stock settings if possible.

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Thanks for your quick reply!

That’s a pity to hear. There was one thing I wanted to try is to see if I can get any serial data from the serial port but I guess that’s not worth a try?
The only custom software was the openDTU to get the solar information: GitHub - henne49/dbus-opendtu: Integrate opendtu and ahoy into Victron Energies Venus OS as a pv inverter

Hopefully the RMA will not take that long, the system is sitting still now.

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Deep low level documentation for such things is here - Venus OS: Root Access [Victron Energy]

But it’s never expected of any customer that this kind of thing is required, only for those tinkerers that want to. Documentation for how to extract info beyond what is in that link above is limited.

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I have knowledge about electronics, connecting the serial to see if there is a connection and try to fix it is not a problem for me. I do need some help with the serial commands to pinpoint the problem.

The output so far is:

U-Boot SPL 2018.05 (Oct 28 2024 - 23:24:36 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
Trying to boot from MMC2

U-Boot 2018.05 (Oct 28 2024 - 23:24:36 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Model: Cubietech Cubieboard2
I2C: ready
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1
Loading Environment from MMC… OK
In: serial@01c28000
Out: serial@01c28000
Err: serial@01c28000
Net: No ethernet found.
Setting bus to 1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
30786 bytes read in 6 ms (4.9 MiB/s)
** fs_devread read error - block
=>

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I don’t know,

But I would paste that into ChatGPT and it will likely give you some further commands to investigate

At this level it’s not very Victron specific, but closer to the Linux foundations that are much better documented elsewhere.

Good luck with the investigation, final advice from Victron’s perspective is to RMA a replacement.

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I think it will be a RMA indeed.

Perhaps it can help other people, when attaching the sd card it does some work and tells to take out the sd card and powercyle:

U-Boot 2018.05 (Oct 28 2024 - 23:24:36 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Model: Cubietech Cubieboard2
I2C: ready
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1
Loading Environment from MMC… OK
In: serial@01c28000
Out: serial@01c28000
Err: serial@01c28000
Net: No ethernet found.
Setting bus to 1
** Unable to read file board_id **
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
314 bytes read in 2 ms (153.3 KiB/s)

Executing script at 43100000

3827592 bytes read in 211 ms (17.3 MiB/s)
12007891 bytes read in 654 ms (17.5 MiB/s)
30786 bytes read in 4 ms (7.3 MiB/s)
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device

MMC erase: dev # 1, block # 0, count 2048 … 2048 blocks erased: OK

Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 43300000 …

Image Name: venus-install-initramfs-einstein
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 12007827 Bytes = 11.5 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum … OK

Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000

Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
Loading Ramdisk to 4948c000, end 49fff993 … OK
Loading Device Tree to 49481000, end 4948b841 … OK

Starting kernel …

[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.109-venus-17 (oe-user@oe-host) (arm-ve-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 9.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.34.0.20200910) #1 SMP Wed Nov 20 10:47:56 UTC 2024
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc074] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Cerbo GX
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x4a000000, size 96 MiB
[ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: initialized node default-pool, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x000000006fffffff]
[ 0.000000] HighMem [mem 0x0000000070000000-0x000000007fffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x000000007fffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x000000007fffffff]
[ 0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
[ 0.000000] psci: Using PSCI v0.1 Function IDs from DT
[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 15 pages/cpu s31564 r8192 d21684 u61440
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 260608
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=32768 vt.global_cursor_default=0
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] Memory: 919020K/1048576K available (6144K kernel code, 647K rwdata, 1308K rodata, 1024K init, 221K bss, 31252K reserved, 98304K cma-reserved, 262144K highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
[ 0.000000] Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.
[ 0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[ 0.000000] GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x314/0x4ac with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 24.00MHz (phys).
[ 0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x588fe9dc0, max_idle_ns: 440795202592 ns
[ 0.000008] sched_clock: 56 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 4398046511097ns
[ 0.000023] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 41ns
[ 0.000484] clocksource: timer: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 79635851949 ns
[ 0.000816] clocksource: hstimer: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 6370868154 ns
[ 0.001095] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.001172] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=240000)
[ 0.001197] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.001338] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.001360] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.002097] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.002456] /cpus/cpu@0 missing clock-frequency property
[ 0.002486] /cpus/cpu@1 missing clock-frequency property
[ 0.002501] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[ 0.003179] Setting up static identity map for 0x40100000 - 0x40100060
[ 0.003336] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[ 0.004090] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs …
[ 0.014866] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[ 0.015023] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
[ 0.015046] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (96.00 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.015056] CPU: All CPU(s) started in HYP mode.
[ 0.015063] CPU: Virtualization extensions available.
[ 0.015819] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.022635] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 7 rev 4
[ 0.022857] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.022891] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.026240] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.027409] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.028809] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.030023] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor ‘step_wise’
[ 0.030351] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.030541] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.030556] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[ 0.053725] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000
[ 0.055539] iommu: Default domain type: Translated
[ 0.055852] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.055911] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.055965] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.057590] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.065898] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.066139] IP idents hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067248] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067289] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067372] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067501] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.067700] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067773] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.067987] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.068538] Unpacking initramfs…
[ 0.760960] Freeing initrd memory: 11728K
[ 0.761459] hw perfevents: no interrupt-affinity property for /pmu, guessing.
[ 0.762371] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 5 counters available
[ 0.764745] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[ 0.765029] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=18 bucket_order=0
[ 0.769612] Key type asymmetric registered
[ 0.769641] Asymmetric key parser ‘x509’ registered
[ 0.769704] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[ 0.770787] sun4i-usb-phy 1c13400.phy: Couldn’t get regulator usb0_vbus… Deferring probe
[ 0.772873] sun4i-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: supply vcc-pi not found, using dummy regulator
[ 0.774871] sun4i-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver
[ 0.784308] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 8 ports
[ 0.784636] sun4i-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: supply vcc-pb not found, using dummy regulator
[ 0.805141] 1c28000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28000 (irq = 55, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[ 1.427874] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 1.432912] sun4i-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: supply vcc-ph not found, using dummy regulator
[ 1.461615] 1c29000.serial: ttyS4 at MMIO 0x1c29000 (irq = 56, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[ 1.491696] 1c29400.serial: ttyS5 at MMIO 0x1c29400 (irq = 57, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[ 1.521951] 1c29800.serial: ttyS6 at MMIO 0x1c29800 (irq = 58, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[ 1.552001] 1c29c00.serial: ttyS7 at MMIO 0x1c29c00 (irq = 59, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[ 1.564980] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 ‘Enhanced’ Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 1.571600] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 1.577387] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 ‘Open’ Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 1.583654] ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
[ 1.591390] sunxi-rtc 1c20d00.rtc: registered as rtc1
[ 1.596623] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.601519] axp20x-i2c 0-0034: AXP20x variant AXP209 found
[ 1.614911] vdd-rtc: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.620406] avcc: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.626051] ldo3: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.630562] ldo4: Bringing 3300000uV into 2800000-2800000uV
[ 1.636629] ldo4: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.641704] ldo5: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.646596] vdd-cpu: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.651898] vdd-sys: Bringing 1250000uV into 1400000-1400000uV
[ 1.658104] vdd-sys: supplied by regulator-dummy
[ 1.663307] axp20x-i2c 0-0034: AXP20X driver loaded
[ 1.669582] at24 1-0050: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[ 1.676752] at24 1-0050: 256 byte 24c02 EEPROM, writable, 16 bytes/write
[ 1.686885] rtc-pcf8523 1-0068: registered as rtc0
[ 1.693148] rtc-pcf8523 1-0068: setting system clock to 2025-11-15T11:03:25 UTC (1763204605)
[ 1.702439] i2c i2c-2: using pinctrl states for GPIO recovery
[ 1.708302] gpio-52 (scl): enforced open drain please flag it properly in DT/ACPI DSDT/board file
[ 1.717185] i2c i2c-2: using generic GPIOs for recovery
[ 1.725925] sunxi-wdt 1c20c90.watchdog: Watchdog enabled (timeout=16 sec, nowayout=1)
[ 1.734597] watchdog: watchdog0 running and kernel based pre-userspace handler disabled
[ 1.748824] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.754537] Segment Routing with IPv6
[ 1.754674] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: Got CD GPIO
[ 1.758398] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.767289] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.777743] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB
[ 1.783539] registered taskstats version 1
[ 1.787899] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB
[ 1.788920] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[ 1.813257] sun4i-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: supply vcc-pd not found, using dummy regulator
[ 1.824398] ehci-platform 1c14000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
[ 1.830511] ehci-platform 1c14000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 1.839039] ehci-platform 1c14000.usb: irq 42, io mem 0x01c14000
[ 1.850970] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[ 1.861012] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 59b4
[ 1.867414] mmcblk0: mmc0:59b4 USD 15.0 GiB
[ 1.867705] ehci-platform 1c14000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 1.878316] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 1.886645] random: fast init done
[ 1.890119] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.897350] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 1.902245] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.109-venus-17 ehci_hcd
[ 1.908617] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 1c14000.usb
[ 1.913711] mmcblk0: p1
[ 1.913942] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.920166] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.924279] mmc1: new DDR MMC card at address 0001
[ 1.925208] ehci-platform 1c1c000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
[ 1.930146] mmcblk1: mmc1:0001 MMC8GB 7.28 GiB
[ 1.935164] ehci-platform 1c1c000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 1.939867] mmcblk1boot0: mmc1:0001 MMC8GB partition 1 4.00 MiB
[ 1.953449] mmcblk1boot1: mmc1:0001 MMC8GB partition 2 4.00 MiB
[ 1.960400] ehci-platform 1c1c000.usb: irq 47, io mem 0x01c1c000
[ 1.987645] ehci-platform 1c1c000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 1.994026] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 2.002323] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 2.009567] usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 2.014442] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.109-venus-17 ehci_hcd
[ 2.020805] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 1c1c000.usb
[ 2.025972] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.029852] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 2.034779] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 2.041821] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 2.049917] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: irq 43, io mem 0x01c14400
[ 2.121796] usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 2.130092] usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 2.137308] usb usb3: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 2.143237] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.109-venus-17 ohci_hcd
[ 2.149602] usb usb3: SerialNumber: 1c14400.usb
[ 2.154749] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.158620] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 2.163568] usb_phy_generic usb_phy_generic.0.auto: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[ 2.173040] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 2.179516] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 2.187543] usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 2.195880] usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 2.203124] usb usb4: Product: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 2.208103] usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.109-venus-17 musb-hcd
[ 2.214451] usb usb4: SerialNumber: musb-hdrc.1.auto
[ 2.220002] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.223806] hub 4-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 2.261301] input: button as /devices/platform/button/input/input0
[ 2.270176] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
[ 2.317762] Run /init as init process
[ 2.327723] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 2.419362] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1e00000.display-frontend (ops sun4i_frontend_driver_exit [sun4i_frontend])
[ 2.430300] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1e20000.display-frontend (ops sun4i_frontend_driver_exit [sun4i_frontend])
[ 2.441448] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1e60000.display-backend (ops sun4i_backend_platform_driver_exit [sun4i_backend])
[ 2.452701] sun4i-drm display-engine: attempt to add DMA range to existing map
[ 2.460251] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1e40000.display-backend (ops sun4i_backend_platform_driver_exit [sun4i_backend])
[ 2.472066] sun4i-drm display-engine: No panel or bridge found… RGB output disabled
[ 2.479960] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1c0c000.lcd-controller (ops sun4i_tcon_platform_driver_exit [sun4i_tcon])
[ 2.491147] sun4i-drm display-engine: No panel or bridge found… RGB output disabled
[ 2.499059] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1c0d000.lcd-controller (ops sun4i_tcon_platform_driver_exit [sun4i_tcon])
[ 2.510568] sun4i-drm display-engine: bound 1c16000.hdmi (ops sun4i_hdmi_ops [sun4i_drm_hdmi])
[ 2.520129] [drm] Initialized sun4i-drm 1.0.0 20150629 for display-engine on minor 0
[ 2.528029] sun4i-drm display-engine: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[ 2.542007] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=2422, bcdDevice= 0.a0
[ 2.550278] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.558582] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
Searching for installer image…
[ 2.562716] hub 2-1:1.0: 2 ports detected
Installer image found on mmcblk0p1
Creating partitions…
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now … OK

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 7.29 GiB, 7818182656 bytes, 15269888 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal[ 2.757704] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using musb-hdrc
): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Script header accepted.
Script header accepted.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x564e5553.
/dev/mmcblk1p1: Created a new partition 1 of type ‘W95 FAT32 (LBA)’ and of size 8 MiB.
/dev/mmcblk1p2: Created a new partition 2 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 1.3 GiB.
Partition #2 contains a ext4 signature.
The signature will be removed by a write command.
/dev/mmcblk1p3: Created a new partition 3 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 1.3 GiB.
/dev/mmcblk1p4: Created a new partition 4 of type ‘Extended’ and of size 4.8 GiB.
/dev/mmcblk1p5: Created a new partition 5 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 4.8 GiB.
Partition #5 contains a ext4 signature.
The signature will be removed by a write command.
/dev/mmcblk1p6: Done.

New situation:
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x564e5553

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 * 2048 18431 16384 8M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk1p2 18432 2639871 2621440 1.3G 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk1p3 2639872 5261311 2621440 1.3G 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk1p4 5261312 15269887 10008576 4.8G 5 Extended
/dev/mmcblk1p5 5263360 15269887 10006528 4.8G 83 Linux

Filesystem/RAID signature on partition 2 will be wiped.
Filesystem/RAID signature on partition 5 will be wiped.

The partition table has been altered.
[ 2.948076] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=d723, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 2.956267] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.963438] usb 4-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
[ 2.968248] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2.972344] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
[ 3.166647] mmcblk1: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
Syncing disks.
Formatting data partition…
mke2fs 1.45.7 (28-Jan-2021)
Discarding device blocks: [ 3.527727] sun4i-drm display-engine: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
done
Creating filesystem with 1250816 4k blocks and 313248 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 6739f084-13a1-4e94-b82c-a807017c2681
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Creating /data/venus/installer-version…
[ 9.765830] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Installing rootfs1…
Swupdate v2016.10.0

Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed copyright notices.

Registered handlers:
raw
rawfile
uboot
software set: stable mode: copy1
Main loop Daemon
Version 0.1.0
[ 35.578233] random: crng init done
Warning: Bad CRC, using default environment
Software updated successfully
Please reboot the device to start the new software
[NOTIFY] : SWUPDATE successful !
Installing bootloader…
Swupdate v2016.10.0

Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed copyright notices.

Registered handlers:
raw
rawfile
uboot
software set: stable mode: bootloader
Main loop Daemon
Version 0.1.0
Software updated successfully
Please reboot the device to start the new software
[NOTIFY] : SWUPDATE successful !
Installation complete
Remove installer medium and power cycle system

8

For the sake of information and perhaps some future people having the same issue. Using the erase command gives the following error:

Card did not respond to voltage select!

If I am correct this means the emmc is not working anymore.