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echo: rberrypi
to: JAN PANTELTJE
from: CHRIS GREEN
date: 2019-01-23 14:25:00
subject: Re: Pi rebooting for some

Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>
> I think a bad wallwart is sure a possibility, the electrolytic capacitors in
those often go bad.
> OTOH I have a Pi like yours now running about 12 hours a day since 2013 on
the same old wallwart:
> 
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/raspberry_pi_FDS132_matrix_display_driver/index.
html
> stopped every evening with 'poweroff' and has not failed to boot once, same
old card...

Mine is on permananently because it's the DNS and DHCP server for the
home LAN.


> Sometimes I accidently unplug it.. it still reboots OK every time.
> But I NEVER upgrade things that work (never repair something that works!!!)

:-)


> Fixed IP address (could that explain something?).

Since it is the DNS/DHCP server it has to be fixed IP really.


> One thing: your card does not happen to be full? I had that once and it
> caused all sort of strange problems.

No, I've checked that, it's one of the first things I always look at
when there are strange things happening.


> The pi above also gets its time from the LAN via the internet when it starts
up.
>
Yes, that's why the times at boot jump about a bit.

--
Chris Green
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