To enable INIT settings, should I remove # sign at beginning of each line?

On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 2:32:15 PM UTC+1, Thomas Keffer wrote:
>
> 1. It looks like you're using the WeatherLinkIP logger in your Vantage. 
> These are generally not as reliable as the serial and USB versions and, as 
> you discovered, depend on the network being up before the Vantage is useful.
>
> I am not a boot expert, but try this: go into /etc/init.d/weewx and 
> change this
>
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides:          weewx
> # Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog $time
> # Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog
> # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
> # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
> # Short-Description: weewx weather system
> # Description:       Manages the weewx weather system
> ### END INIT INFO
>
>
> to this
>
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides:          weewx
> # Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog $networking $time
> # Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog
> # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
> # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
> # Short-Description: weewx weather system
> # Description:       Manages the weewx weather system
> ### END INIT INFO
>
> This says that the system should not run WeeWX until the network is up. 
> What I'm not sure of is how Debian defines "up." Worth a try.
>
> 2. The clock must also be set. Either use a hardware real time clock 
> (RTC), or remove the "fake clock" by following these directions 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Raspberry-Pi#b-remove-the-fake-clock>
> . 
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:57 AM David Hindley <hind...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Many Thanks.
>>
>> 1.  I will do as you suggest re separate log files.
>>
>> 3. The cron task was something I had to add after installing the 
>> belchertown skin, just to copy some files from one directory to another, on 
>> the Rpi, before then using sftp to upload to my website. It seems to work 
>> most of the time, but, as you say, this seemed to be when the corruption 
>> occurred.  The CRON job works every five minutes at 1,6,11... minutes past 
>> each hour - on the basis that weewx should have updated the archive etc by 
>> then - maybe that is something to do with it.
>>
>> 4. Further down the log file, I see:
>>
>> Feb 27 15:17:04 raspberrypi weewx[379]: Starting weewx weather system: 
>> weewxerror: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon
>>
>> and then...
>>
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[423]: engine: Initializing weewx 
>> version 3.9.1
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[423]: engine: Using Python 2.7.13 
>> (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) #012[GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[423]: engine: Platform 
>> Linux-4.14.79-v7+-armv7l-with-debian-9.6
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[423]: engine: Locale is 'en_GB.UTF-8'
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[423]: engine: pid file is 
>> /var/run/weewx.pid
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[467]: engine: Using configuration file 
>> /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[467]: engine: Debug is 1
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[379]: .
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: weewx weather system.
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[467]: engine: Initializing engine
>> Feb 27 15:17:05 raspberrypi weewx[467]: engine: Loading station type 
>> Vantage (weewx.drivers.vantage)
>> Feb 27 15:17:06 raspberrypi weewx[467]: vantage: Driver version is 3.1.1
>> Feb 27 15:17:06 raspberrypi weewx[467]: vantage: Socket error while 
>> opening port 22222 to ethernet host 10.0.1.83.
>> Feb 27 15:17:06 raspberrypi weewx[467]: import of driver failed: [Errno 
>> 101] Network is unreachable (<class 'weewx.WeeWxIOError'>)
>> Feb 27 15:17:06 raspberrypi weewx[467]: engine: Unable to load driver: 
>> [Errno 101] Network is unreachable
>> Feb 27 15:17:06 raspberrypi weewx[467]:     ****  Exiting...
>>
>> So, looks like the internet connection went down perhaps? (I was away 
>> when all this happened yesterday, so not sure)
>>
>> Good point re making sure weewx doesn't restart until it has a sensible 
>> time via valid NTP connection - any idea how I do that?  I will order an 
>> RTC anyway I think.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 11:25, Andrew Milner <andrew.s...@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> 1.  I recommend you put weewx log messages in their own log file - see 
>>> wiki for a) separate logfile and also logrotation.
>>> 2.  The ^@ rubbish looks like possible corruption whilst executing a 
>>> cron task
>>> 3.  What cron task was it trying to execute
>>> 4.  I see the clock has gone backwards around the rubbish point - 
>>> implying the rpi has rebooted itself.  If that is the case you need to 
>>> ensure that weewx does not restart again until it has a sensible time - or 
>>> fit an RTC to your rpi
>>>
>>> All looks like some form of corruption - power supply perhaps or memory 
>>> card problem which is then causing a pi reboot and should cause a weewx 
>>> restart - but the log portion you posted does not run long enough to give 
>>> weewx restart details and ensure it held off until it had a valid time and 
>>> ntp connection.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 28 February 2019 13:10:57 UTC+2, David Hindley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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...@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.
>>>>>>
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