xStreamBufferReceive(…, portMAX_DELAY) Task Moved to Suspended and Never Wakes on Data

[Nikolay-Po (Nikolay Pokhilchenko)]

It seems to me the problem may be related somehow to this topic:

Question about sending notifications from own task

I have a number of projects that I’ve done with FreeRTOS over the past couple of years. I just about every project, there is some task that needs to send a notification to itself. It’s typically a task that parses data from the outside world (usually a UART) and then the task sends a notification to itself to perform some action based on the parsing of the data. So the task is an infinite loop calling xTaskNotifyWait(0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF, &notifications, portMAX_DELAY); at the beginning of the l…