Subj : Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm
To   : druck
From : nev young
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 11:47:38

On 26/09/2024 21:25, druck wrote:
> On 26/09/2024 10:00, nev young wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> This is a very poor solution. If you must do an automatic reboot when
> network connectivity fails, install and configure the watchdog package.

Oddly the name I gave to the script was lan_watchdog :-)
Don't need it now. I'm back on buster and the wifi is solid.
>
> Getting to the bottom of the problem is the best thing to do.
I'm happy to just accept that someone somewhere sometime fscked up and
broke it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they now stand in a dole queue next to
someone from Crowdstrike. :-!

>
> ---druk

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