I’ve been running a Pi Zero W with Piaware and a Prostick plus (blue) dongle for 2 weeks now.
This morning I found it was not working, I can’t even ssh into it nor ping the Pi.
I reimaged my card with a backup from last week which worked since last week, but it didn’t solved the problem.
I finally isolated the problem to the dongle: If it’s connected wifi doesn’t work thus it’s not accesible and it is not reporting either to FA, when I unplug the dongle, wifi is back again (without needing to reboot), when I plug it again wifi goes off.
Here is a log showing when I plugged (08:57:40) and unplugged it (09:00:59):
pi@piaware:~ $ sudo journalctl -u dump1090-fa -n50 --no-pager
– Logs begin at Sat 2020-09-05 11:58:14 CDT, end at Fri 2020-09-11 09:01:41 CDT. –
Sep 11 08:55:35 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 08:56:05 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 08:56:05 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 18.
Sep 11 08:56:05 piaware systemd[1]: Stopped dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:56:06 piaware systemd[1]: Started dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:56:06 piaware dump1090-fa[2172]: Fri Sep 11 08:56:06 2020 CDT dump1090-fa 3.8.1 starting up.
Sep 11 08:56:06 piaware dump1090-fa[2172]: rtlsdr: no supported devices found.
Sep 11 08:56:06 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 11 08:56:06 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 08:56:37 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 08:56:37 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 19.
Sep 11 08:56:37 piaware systemd[1]: Stopped dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:56:38 piaware systemd[1]: Started dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:56:38 piaware dump1090-fa[2206]: Fri Sep 11 08:56:38 2020 CDT dump1090-fa 3.8.1 starting up.
Sep 11 08:56:38 piaware dump1090-fa[2206]: rtlsdr: no supported devices found.
Sep 11 08:56:38 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 11 08:56:38 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 08:57:08 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 08:57:08 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 20.
Sep 11 08:57:08 piaware systemd[1]: Stopped dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:57:10 piaware systemd[1]: Started dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:57:10 piaware dump1090-fa[2215]: Fri Sep 11 08:57:10 2020 CDT dump1090-fa 3.8.1 starting up.
Sep 11 08:57:10 piaware dump1090-fa[2215]: rtlsdr: no supported devices found.
Sep 11 08:57:10 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 11 08:57:10 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 08:57:40 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 08:57:40 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 21.
Sep 11 08:57:40 piaware systemd[1]: Stopped dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware systemd[1]: Started dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Fri Sep 11 08:57:42 2020 CDT dump1090-fa 3.8.1 starting up.
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: rtlsdr: using device #0: Generic RTL2832U (Realtek, RTL2832U, SN 00001000)
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Detached kernel driver
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
Sep 11 08:57:42 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: rtlsdr: enabling tuner AGC
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: cb transfer status: 5, canceling…
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: cb transfer status: 5, canceling…
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: rtlsdr: rtlsdr_read_async returned unexpectedly, probably lost the USB device, bailing out
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Fri Sep 11 09:00:59 2020 CDT Waiting for receive thread termination
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Reattaching kernel driver failed!
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware dump1090-fa[2317]: Fri Sep 11 09:00:59 2020 CDT Abnormal exit.
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 11 09:00:59 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 09:01:29 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Service RestartSec=30s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 09:01:29 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 22.
Sep 11 09:01:30 piaware systemd[1]: Stopped dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 09:01:31 piaware systemd[1]: Started dump1090 ADS-B receiver (FlightAware customization).
Sep 11 09:01:31 piaware dump1090-fa[2799]: Fri Sep 11 09:01:31 2020 CDT dump1090-fa 3.8.1 starting up.
Sep 11 09:01:31 piaware dump1090-fa[2799]: rtlsdr: no supported devices found.
Sep 11 09:01:31 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 11 09:01:31 piaware systemd[1]: dump1090-fa.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Thanks for your help.