Version 21 seems to keep my R-Boom offline

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It seems that my R-Boom station AM.RC93C has been offline since the release of Version 21. I can ssh into it, and I see its hosted webpage is completely redesigned now, but the webpage just says in a notification box “system offline”.
IDK if its relevant but this machine has an external sensor I built to monitor temp and humidity in the outdoor enclosure it is in. It reports serial data at intervals and shows up as a FTDI USB device on /dev/ttyUSB0. It appears the Pi system thinks this is a GPS receiver and spams /var/log/auth.log with gpsd requests every single second, which is probably not good. auth.log now has a size of 123559162 bytes.

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Dec 26 20:09:15 rs-1 sudo:  myshake : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status gpsd.service
Dec 26 20:09:15 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 26 20:09:15 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Dec 26 20:09:16 rs-1 sudo:  myshake : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status gpsd.service
Dec 26 20:09:16 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 26 20:09:16 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Dec 26 20:09:17 rs-1 sudo:  myshake : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status gpsd.service
Dec 26 20:09:17 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 26 20:09:17 rs-1 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
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hi john,

this is a known problem when connecting the USB to a non-GPS module. i will endeavor to address this in the upcoming patch release. however, it’s unclear to me why this would cause the station to remain offline.

can you forward the log files so i can see better what’s going on?

thanks in advance,
richard

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While I can see the web page, I cannot click on any item, apparently because the web page is showing me a message reading “System Status
Your system is currently offline, wait for it to restart or start it up manually.” and blocks all interaction. But via ssh into the machine I can see it appears to be running normally, at least the normal RPi processes are going. I can scp whatever log files you want, if you let me know what you are interested in. Do you want the contents of /opt/log and or /var/log ?

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Oh, something truly strange happens when I type “ps aux” while ssh’d into this machine. Have a look at the psaux.txt output to see what I mean! Maybe I have filesystem corruption?
dmesg.txt (17.7 KB)
psaux.txt (48.5 KB)

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Hello jbeale,

Thank you for the dmesg and psaux outputs. To complete the set, could you download, zip, and send to me the entire content of the /opt/log folder?

It will help paint the full picture of your Shake situation.

Thank you!

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Ok, here is my R-Shake /opt/log file in a zip archive.
shake-log.zip (164.3 KB)

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hi,

thanks for the log files, this is clarifying.

indeed the V21 update has made it such that the boot-up process is unable to complete due to the GPS module bug previously identified.

this will be addressed in the V21 patch release which will occur in the next couple of weeks.

apologies for the inconvenience. i will keep you updated.

cheers,
richard

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