What distro are you using? I've played with 3 Raspberry Pi units running Raspian Wheezy, and they've all been rock-solid.
Curt On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Evening everyone, > I am experiencing an interesting problem and thought I would reach out > for some help. I have a raspberry pi that I am using at the office to > drive a large monitor and display a dashboard. The problem I have is that > when it boots up it is not immediately receiving a DHCP response (or at > least not receiving the leased IP) very quickly;. Meanwhile, the boot > process continues on and loads X windows and chrome / chromium launching > full screen to a URL that is the basis for the dashboard. The problem is > that all this loads before the ethernet interface actually receives it's IP > address and initializes so chrome just reports "Cannot load this page". > Usually after several reboots it manages to time things correctly so the > dashboard displays. I have tried adding time to the process by sticking > sleep commands into the xinitrc script but not very successful. I have > tried adding pings to the xinitrc thinking that would "force" the interface > up but ping just fails immediately too. What I need is a command I can run > that will wait until the network interface is fully initialized and then > return allowing chrome to load and successfully reach the URL for the > Dashboard. > > I tried writing a simple perl script to loop until it receives a > successful response to ping, but it doesn't appear to execute during the > boot process. > > Any Suggestions? > > More as it happens... > > Andy Farnsworth > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
