On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:35:12 +0000, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:13:25 +0100 Dave Liquorice wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:33:56 +0100, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>>
>>>> I have Raspberries in different locations. One of them, more than
>> 100
>>>> miles away didn't come back from a reboot. Hence, I suspect the
>> SDCard
>>>> to be corrupted.
>>>
>>> Why not hedge your bets (it could be an RPi complete failure) and get
>>> a new one to set up from scratch.
>>
>> That would be wise. A Zero is not exactly expensive... Also "didn't
>> come back from a reboot" is a bit vague. Is that just waiting after
>> issuing a reboot command or after a shut down and power cycle? Has it
>> been power cycled? Has the SD card been reseated and the power cycled?
>> Is there a micro SD to SD card adpater in use?
>
> Hi, what I've done in short:
>
> I start a python script via crontab every 10 minutes which reads I2C
> data from a BME280 sensor. This script calculates the temperature,
> relative humidity and relative air pressure and sends it to a webserver.
>
> This works perfectly.
>
> To be on the safe side I make / made a reboot every night. From this the
> questioned machine didn't return, now. I see in the log that the last
> transmission was ok, then the reboot was started and the connection was
> lost. So, I doubt that the machine completely broke down. Most likely
> the SDCard gave up.
>
> So, I also have to re-think if it is a good idea to make daily reboots
> even though the resources are not locked or eaten up. Maybe one reboot
> per week will also do?
>
> P.S. I'd rather prefer to use "Raspberry Zero / WLAN" only for
> installation, since it has only Wifi and the network there is cable
> based.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Markus

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Reboots are for hardware changes only




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