I am running the latest raspbian as of Sept 6 plus full apt-get
dist-upgrade so I should be fully up to date.  When I run this same Pi at
home it works perfectly, it has to do with the fact that the DHCP server at
the office takes loads of time to respond with a network configuration for
the Pi.  I suspect this is because it is running on a full class B subnet
but I am not sure.

Andy

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
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