Subj : Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm
To   : bp@www.zefox.net
From : nev young
Date : Thu Sep 26 2024 10:00:07

On 21/09/2024 16:53, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> This morning, after a few minutes' use of my Pi5 running Bookworm,
> the WiFi connection abruptly dropped. Couldn't bring it back up,
> so I rebooted the access point. No luck. Then I rebooted the Pi5
> and noticed something about rfkill stopping wifi in the boot messages.
> At this point the last reboot was several days past, wifi hadn't been
> touched or given any trouble.
>
> Went to raspi-config and rebuilt all of the locales, still couldn't
> connect. Finally I opened the system preferences and set locales,
> which were already correct according to the selections shown.
>
> The machine then proceeded to work normally, as I write this.
> I've had trouble before with rfkill turning on out of the blue,
> but hadn't seen the problem for a month or two and thought it
> resolved.
>
> Is this a widespread problem, and is there a fix? The fact that
> it happened days after the most recent reboot seems very strange.
>

During my attempt to run bookworm over the last 3 months I had the
problem of the wifi dropping as well.
Couldn't be arsed to find out why. Real life gets in the way.
My Hammer / nut solution is run a cron job every 5 min.
If I can't ping the router then	sleep 10
If I still can't ping the router sleep 20
If I still can't ping the router sleep 30
If I still can't ping the router reboot.

I suspect this won't help you but all my pi zeroes are headless and this
does (did) work. See my bookworm resolution in the other thread.

--
Nev
It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
that so many people are unable to understand what I write.

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