Thanks. I agree that it is probably the Raspberry Pi, rather than weewx. My syslog file around the relevant time that it stopped working yesterday is as follows. Does anyone have any idea how to interpret this? The "^@" is very puzzling to a linux novice such as me!
David. Feb 27 15:30:28 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /belchertown/graphs/index.html Feb 27 15:30:28 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /belchertown/records Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /belchertown/records/index.html Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /belchertown/reports Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /belchertown/reports/index.html Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /belchertown/about Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /belchertown/about/index.html Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /belchertown/images Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /reports Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /reports/index.html Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /about Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: uploaded file /about/index.html Feb 27 15:30:29 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftp: create remote directory /images Feb 27 15:30:30 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: sftpgenerator: transferred 34 files in 7.72 seconds Feb 27 15:30:30 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Running report 'Highcharts_Belchertown' Feb 27 15:30:30 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Highcharts_Belchertown/skin.conf for report 'Highcharts_Belchertown' Feb 27 15:30:30 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: cheetahgenerator: using search list ['weewx.cheetahgenerator.Almanac', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Station', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Current', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Stats', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.UnitInfo', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Extras', 'user.belchertown_highchartsSearchX.$ Feb 27 15:30:30 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: manager: Daily summary version is 2.0 Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 4 files for report Highcharts_Belchertown in 14.36 seconds Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: copygenerator: copied 0 files to /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Running report 'Belchertown' Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Belchertown/skin.conf for report 'Belchertown' Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: cheetahgenerator: using search list ['weewx.cheetahgenerator.Almanac', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Station', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Current', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Stats', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.UnitInfo', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Extras', 'user.belchertown.getData'] Feb 27 15:30:44 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: manager: Daily summary version is 2.0 Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 12 files for report Belchertown in 3.13 seconds Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: copygenerator: copied 1 files to /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Running report 'FTP' Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Ftp/skin.conf for report 'FTP' Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: ftpgenerator: FTP upload not requested. Skipped. Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Running report 'RSYNC' Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/skin.conf for report 'RSYNC' Feb 27 15:30:47 raspberrypi weewx[9312]: rsyncgenerator: rsync upload not requested. Skipped. Feb 27 15:31:01 raspberrypi CRON[12528]: (pi) CMD (sudo cp -f /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/day.json /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/week.json /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/month.json /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/year.json /var/www/html/weewx/json) ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@$ Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.14.79-v7+ (dc4@dc4-XPS13-9333) (gcc version 4.9.3 (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.22.0-88-g8460611)) #1159 SMP Sun Nov 4 17:50:20 GMT 2018 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd034] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=10c5383d Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi fake-hwclock[87]: Wed 27 Feb 15:17:01 UTC 2019 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x3ac00000 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 242688 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80c85280, node_mem_map ba39f000 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 2133 pages used for memmap Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Apply Kernel Variables. Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 242688 pages, LIFO batch:31 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 17 pages/cpu @ba348000 s38720 r8192 d22720 u69632 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started File System Check Daemon to report status. Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s38720 r8192 d22720 u69632 alloc=17*4096 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 240555 Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=0 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=640 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=480 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadli$ Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi systemd-fsck[119]: e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Memory: 940232K/970752K available (7168K kernel code, 576K rwdata, 2076K rodata, 1024K init, 698K bss, 22328K reserved, 8192K cma-reserved) Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev. Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout: Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: [ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB) On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 10:33, Andrew Milner <andrew.s.r.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > The best tip I can give you is to identify why the site is crashing by > looking at the weewx and webserver logs. > > Weewx should never crash per se. If it encounters an irrecpoverable > situation it should restart. If it is not restarting Tom would require, I > am pretty sure, to see the log of the failure. The log should also give > you a clue as to the cause of the failure (if it is indeed weewx). > > A more likely cause would be flakey RPi power supply or flakey SD card - > both of which are pretty notorious issues when an RPi is running 24/7. If > you are also hosting the site on the RPi it is even possible that your site > is being hacked from outside and brought down!!! > > So there you have it, in a nutshell. Find the cause first then try and > find a solution!!! > > > > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 11:36:14 UTC+2, hind...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I use weewx on a Raspberry pi and post my results to my own public >> weather station website (www.ashteadweather.com) with the excellent >> belchertown skin. It all works very nicely most of the time, but now and >> again, something goes wrong and the Raspberry pi crashes and weewx stops >> working - then my weather website shows out of date results until I notice >> this and restart the pi and weewx - then all fine again. Has anyone got >> any tips for tracking these problems proactively so as to minimise the >> downtime (rather than waiting until I happen to notice the problem) and >> perhaps getting weewx to show a holding message on the website until the >> problem is corrected? >> >> Thanks >> >> David. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/P7KTI7Xv1CQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
