Random Network Failure

Folks,

After months last year without any network drops on my Pi Zero using Jessie, of late I’ve been getting quite a few. After investigating a few potential problems I decided to install a new image and used Stretch Lite. Then installed PiAware and Dump1090

Was confident the problem was resolved but again last night network dropped.

Checked the syslog for potential issues and saw the following;

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Jan 18 00:20:27 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Withdrawing address record for 10.19.44.25 on wlan0.
Jan 18 00:20:27 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 10.19.44.25.
Jan 18 00:20:30 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Jan 18 00:20:30 PiAware kernel: [25890.518776] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110
Jan 18 00:20:32 PiAware kernel: [25893.078793] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting mcast_list failed, -110
Jan 18 00:20:35 PiAware kernel: [25895.638795] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_disconnect: error (-110)
Jan 18 00:20:38 PiAware kernel: [25898.198829] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting allmulti failed, -110
Jan 18 00:20:40 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Interface wlan0.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Jan 18 00:20:40 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv6 with address fe80::ba27:ebff:fe5f:305a.
Jan 18 00:20:40 PiAware avahi-daemon[354]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::ba27:ebff:fe5f:305a on wlan0.
Jan 18 00:20:40 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=74:da:38:29:f9:6a reason=3 locally_generated=1
Jan 18 00:20:40 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: p2p-dev-wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
Jan 18 00:20:43 PiAware kernel: [25903.318840] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, -110
Jan 18 00:20:50 PiAware kernel: [25910.998865] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting mcast_list failed, -110
Jan 18 00:20:55 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: p2p-dev-wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=USER type=COUNTRY alpha2=GB
Jan 18 00:20:55 PiAware kernel: [25916.118906] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110
Jan 18 00:20:55 PiAware kernel: [25916.118924] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_reg_notifier: Country code iovar returned err = -110
Jan 18 00:20:55 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: p2p-dev-wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
Jan 18 00:20:56 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: nl80211: deinit ifname=p2p-dev-wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
Jan 18 00:20:58 PiAware kernel: [25918.678931] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting allmulti failed, -110
Jan 18 00:21:01 PiAware kernel: [25921.238924] brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_multicast_list: Setting BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC failed, -110
Jan 18 00:21:17 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: p2p-dev-wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
Jan 18 00:21:18 PiAware wpa_supplicant[2792]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Jan 18 00:21:18 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
Jan 18 00:21:20 PiAware wpa_supplicant[455]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
Jan 18 00:21:20 PiAware kernel: [25940.839026] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110
Jan 18 00:21:20 PiAware kernel: [25940.839040] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel: chanspec failed (-110)
Jan 18 00:21:23 PiAware kernel: [25943.399024] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110
Jan 18 00:21:23 PiAware kernel: [25943.399038] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel: chanspec failed (-110)
Jan 18 00:21:25 PiAware kernel: [25945.959049] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110
Jan 18 00:21:25 PiAware kernel: [25945.959062] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel: chanspec failed (-110)

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Now it also refers to PiAware Kernel responsible so am curious, what is avahi-daemon used for?

Geffers

I think the avahi is the Linux implementation of Apple’s bonjour protocol. …not really used by PiAware but might be useful to connect to your Pi from within your house.

Thanks,

Eliminated that now as a problem.

Geffers