{
 "id": "esp-cpu-stall-on-an-esp32-s3-is",
 "kind": "issue",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "esp_cpu_stall on an ESP32-S3 is unrecoverable over USB: the stall bits live in the RTC domain and survive the USB-JTAG chip reset",
 "symptom": "The board stops responding and cannot be recovered by any software route. The USB port still enumerates, the serial node still appears, cts reads True, and yet zero bytes come out and every CDC write times out. It looks like a host-side driver problem and is not.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf",
  "arduino"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "about": [
  "ESP32-S3 dev boards over USB-Serial-JTAG"
 ],
 "intent": "Simulate a frozen peer without destroying the board",
 "date": "2026-08-23",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}