Weewx stops reporting on fixed interval

Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 5:46:21 AM12/16/20

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Hello,

I have been experiencing an issue for the last two weeks, and so far have not been able to determine the cause. I was hoping someone may have some ideas.

I am running the Weather34 Skin (https://github.com/steepleian/weewx-Weather34)

Weewx 4.2.0.

MySQL Database

OS Rasbian on Raspberry

At fixed intervals (7-8 hours, more and less) the system stops entering data into the database and upload files into my web server, but I cannot see any suitable information or error from the syslog. If I restart Weewx, everything turns to work great. Then, after this "famous" 7-8 hours, Weewx stops again to report and doesn't work before I make a manually restart.

If anyone has any ideas it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Mauro

Tom Keffer

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Dec 16, 2020, 8:11:56 AM12/16/20

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I know you think the log is uninteresting, but to more experienced eyes, it may contain some clues. Be sure to set debug=1.

Also, what kind of hardware?

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Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 8:32:23 AM12/16/20

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Hi Tom,

I've never thought that the log is interesting, simply I was not able to see where the error is. :-)

Station Hardware is a Davis Vantage Pro2, while the debug is already set to debug = 1.

Regards

Mauro

Tom Keffer

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Dec 16, 2020, 8:41:45 AM12/16/20

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Sorry, but it does not look like you attached the log.

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Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 9:04:41 AM12/16/20

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You're right, Tom.

If not attached the log because I should copy and paste you the exactly moment when Weewx stops reporting, but how can I do it when I'm not logged on my Raspberry when it happens? Are there other possibilities?

Tom Keffer

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Dec 16, 2020, 9:28:09 AM12/16/20

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If you can ssh into your RPi, you could scp the log to somewhere convenient. Then upload it to a cloud service such as pastebin.com.

Alternatively, you can use a text editor to trim it down to the essentials, then post it here. But, please don't post anything too big here.

-tk

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Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 10:03:17 AM12/16/20

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Yes, I can ssh into my RPi, but I don't know how to scp the log.

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Karen K

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Dec 16, 2020, 10:24:54 AM12/16/20

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on the computer where you run ssh:

scp root@rpi:/var/log/syslog .

Please, note the dot at the end. Replace "rpi" by the IP address or name of your RPi. May be, you need to replace "root" by "pi" or "user" to get it work.

After that you will find a file named "syslog" in the current directory. You can open it with any text editor.

Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 11:35:59 AM12/16/20

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Thank you!

Mauro De Lauretis

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Dec 16, 2020, 4:08:25 PM12/16/20

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Tom, maybe I've found the problem of the stopping:

Dec 16 00:13:45 raspberrypi weewx[2295]: Stopping weewx weather system: weewx not running....

Dec 16 00:13:45 raspberrypi systemd[1]: weewx.service: Succeeded.

Dec 16 00:13:45 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: weewx weather system.

Dec 16 00:13:45 raspberrypi systemd[1]: weewx.service: Found left-over process 25134 (sh) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring.