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I plugged around with my setup. I ran the basic Freeduino board for a long time without the peripherals shield. It ran just fine.
So it must be something with the shield or it's components. I was checking voltages, signals. It was tedious. But once it reaches that state, it stays there until whatever condition dissipates, it just takes 45 minutes to reach it.
When I gave up for the evening I was out of ideas.
While the sketch compiled sizes may be different between Linux and non-Linux, I'm not certain that is what's causing the problem - see paragraph 1.
When I woke up this morning, I had a thought. My LCD has an 8+ inch ribbon cable connected to interface to the shield. However, not all of the leads are connected. I wondered if they are getting some kind of built up charge and causing the inputs to the LCD to enter this odd state. My thought was to tie them all to ground (logical 0). But, I didn't have the 45 mintues to reach the condition before work this morning.
Unless someone has a different idea, this is what I plan to look into this evening.
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