Thanks for that Tom, I have no doubt that you are correct....as usual. I 
will dig around as you propose and see what I can find.


On Sunday 1 September 2024 at 12:10:14 UTC+12 Tom Keffer wrote:

> Monica: you're going to have to do a little investigation. Take a look in 
> /home/weatherpi/backup_weewx.sh. Anything in there that could cause a 
> weekly reboot?
>
> Also the path /etc/cron.weekly is a directory. You'll have to look inside 
> for any files. Could any of them cause a weekly boot?
>
> How about the file /home/weatherpi/camera_image1.sh?
>
> I encourage you to do a little investigative forensics on your computer. 
> It's hard to diagnose these remotely. 
>
> I could be wrong, but I really doubt this is a weewx problem. It's 
> something specific to your computer.
>
> -tk
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM Monica Mulholland <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for that. Here the screenshot of the files.
>>
>> On Sunday 1 September 2024 at 11:08:37 UTC+12 Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>>> These four lines are interesting:
>>>
>>> Sep 01 00:00:01 weatherpi CRON[10907]: (weatherpi) CMD 
>>> (/home/weatherpi/backup_weewx.sh)
>>> Sep 01 00:00:01 weatherpi CRON[10906]: (weatherpi) CMD 
>>> (/home/weatherpi/camera_image1.sh)
>>> Sep 01 00:00:01 weatherpi sudo[10911]: weatherpi : PWD=/home/weatherpi ; 
>>> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl stop weewx
>>> Sep 01 00:00:01 weatherpi sudo[10911]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session 
>>> opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
>>>
>>> First some sort of backup shell script /home/weatherpi/backup_weewx.sh 
>>> is invoked, then something for a camera image. Then the user identified by 
>>> uid 1000 (presumably user 'weewx'?) got elevated privileges using "sudo", 
>>> then used them to terminate weewxd. This is happening at the same time as 
>>> the backup script.
>>>
>>> It feels like the backup script is deliberately terminating weewxd 
>>> before starting the backup. Take a look in the script 
>>> /home/weatherpi/backup_weewx.sh
>>>
>>> As for why this is happening at midnight Sunday morning, perhaps the 
>>> backup script, or something else, is invoked by crontab. Look in 
>>> /etc/crontab and in /etc/cron.weekly.
>>>
>>> -tk
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 3:51 PM Monica Mulholland <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is the log from last night from before and after the time it shuts 
>>>> down each week and does not restart unless the Rpi is rebooted.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 29 August 2024 at 09:30:46 UTC+12 Monica Mulholland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday 29 August 2024 at 09:16:41 UTC+12 gjr80 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no idea what might be causing your nightly stoppage, but from 
>>>>>> the most recent log posted you almost certainly have corrupt station 
>>>>>> memory. The clues are in hardware record generation being used, WeeWX 
>>>>>> talking to the console/logger but no archive records being dowloaded and 
>>>>>> reports are generated normally but with no new data. The net effect is 
>>>>>> that 
>>>>>> WeeWX can obtain loop packet data from the console but it cannot obtain 
>>>>>> archive records. You might want to work through the Corrupt station 
>>>>>> memory 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station#corrupt-station-memory>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> section of the Troubleshooting the Davis Vantage station wiki page 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station>
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for the nightly stoppage, once you get your station working again 
>>>>>> you might want to leave debug = 1 and post a log extract covering 
>>>>>> say 30 minutes either side of the stoppage time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday 29 August 2024 at 06:53:02 UTC+10 [email protected] 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But, it is not running at all at the moment.....it is not showing on 
>>>>>>> the website. On Wunderground it says offline. Despite repeated reboots, 
>>>>>>> it 
>>>>>>> has not run in nearly a week. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday 29 August 2024 at 05:57:50 UTC+12 vince wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let it run through the weekend and if it fails again this Saturday 
>>>>>>>> post whatever is logged please.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 12:55:24 AM UTC-7 dunbrokin wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OK, lets see if I can get it right this time!
>>>>>>>>>  mylog 
>>>>>>>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Ho3ZSODZgTH-WZ39Ak_JBqNh9YaTSMZ/view?usp=drive_web>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 2:15 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Set debug=1 and maybe we can figure it out
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Monday, August 26, 2024 at 1:02:43 PM UTC-7 dunbrokin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Oops Sorry, I thought I had hardwired in debug=1.....bottom of 
>>>>>>>>>>> the class for me on this one I think....made all the rookie 
>>>>>>>>>>> mistakes. 
>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies for wasting your time!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 4:20 AM vince <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sigh - as always, set debug=1 and let it run for more like 35 
>>>>>>>>>>>> minutes.  You have an archive period of 10 minutes if it's running 
>>>>>>>>>>>> off the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> hardware interval of 600 seconds so we need to see a few cycles.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Monday, August 26, 2024 at 1:38:03 AM UTC-7 dunbrokin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies, yes it's always a good idea.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  For the last 3 weeks on Sat night at 11.50 it stopped 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> recording.....but rebooting started it again the next day. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> However this 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> week after rebooting it stopped at 11.10 am and despite 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rebooting, it never 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> started recording again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> So I ran the log as per the instructions....but it only ran 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for about 6 minutes. Attached is all that was recorded in almost 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 15 minutes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM vince <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Your system logs.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 4:16:58 PM UTC-7 Monica 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mulholland wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Every week, on Saturday night at 11.50 pm my station stops 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reporting and needs to be rebooted. I am on a RPi4 (recently 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> upgraded). 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Other than this little glitch, which is annoying, it is running 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> since I upgraded to the RPi4.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any suggestions of where I might look to try and sort this 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> issue?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any help greatly appreciated.
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