knapjackNov 13, 2023
My honk host is currently an old Moto G4 running Termux, which was extremely stable for months but lately implodes about every five or six days. Upcoming landing pad:
OS: Void Linux armv7l Host: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 Kernel: 5.15.72_1 Uptime: 22 mins Packages: 131 (xbps-query) Shell: sh Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: BCM2835 (4) @ 900MHz Memory: 37MiB / 923MiB
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Show threadknapjackNov 13, 2023
Migration complete! Let's see how long this little honker runs.
Show threadPeter SanchezNov 13, 2023
@knapjack The Pi should be pretty stable. Honk on!
Show threadknapjackNov 16, 2023

@petersanchez @dirk Ran into an interesting issue with the Pi. The backend is failing about once a day. Exactly once a day, I asked myself? Yes, it appears so.

When I migrated over, I thought what the heck, let's log to syslog. I installed socklog, left the defaults, voila.

It looks like when the daily log rotation kicks in, the backend crashes. If I try a simple restart of honk the backend doesn't like the socket. A full reboot does the trick.

So, in experimentation mode, now logging to file again. Start the clock.

Show threadteduNov 17, 2023
@knapjack the backend may have been killed to memory pressure. but it's weird it wouldn't reconnect. the restarted process should clean up the old socket.
Show threadknapjackNov 18, 2023
@tedu @petersanchez @dirk Well, even not logged to syslog, seems to be related:
2023/11/18 02:58:49 lost the backend: %!s(<nil>)
and:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root socklog 44717 Nov 18 02:58 current
Going to try disabling socklog and see what happens.
Show threadteduNov 18, 2023
@knapjack I keep forgetting to add the err to that log.
Show threadknapjackNov 18, 2023
@tedu @petersanchez @dirk So far, stopping socklog seems to have done the trick. Going to give it 24 hours, but joined the mailing list already. Should be interesting to troubleshoot.
Show threadknapjackNov 19, 2023

@petersanchez @dirk @tedu Oooh, the plot thickens. Backend crashed anyway, but no problems restarting it, no reboot necessary.

Now I'm wondering if it's a musl issue, or if someone I follow is just posting something crazy daily. 😂

Show threadPeter SanchezNov 20, 2023
@knapjack @dirk @tedu Is this running on Alpine?
Show threadknapjackNov 21, 2023
@petersanchez @dirk @tedu Void, so close.
Show threadknapjack
@petersanchez @dirk @tedu Alright, winds gusting to 70 miles per hour, plenty of power outages, so I took it as an omen to learn the Way of Void this evening and created runit scripts for honk so now it autostarts after reboot, and auto-restarts if the backend dies. Not perfect, but I'm well-versed in the way of duct tape.
Nov 21, 2023 at 6:11amWeb
Show threadPeter SanchezNov 21, 2023
@knapjack @dirk @tedu good enough I suppose lol.
Show threadknapjackNov 23, 2023
@petersanchez @dirk @tedu This was a cool trick. I'm a new fan. http://smarden.org/runit/faq.html#userservices