Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm

On 21/09/2024 16:53, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

This morning, after a few minutes' use of my Pi5 running Bookworm,
the WiFi connection abruptly dropped. Couldn't bring it back up,
so I rebooted the access point. No luck. Then I rebooted the Pi5
and noticed something about rfkill stopping wifi in the boot messages.
At this point the last reboot was several days past, wifi hadn't been
touched or given any trouble.
 Went to raspi-config and rebuilt all of the locales, still couldn't
connect. Finally I opened the system preferences and set locales,
which were already correct according to the selections shown.
 The machine then proceeded to work normally, as I write this.
I've had trouble before with rfkill turning on out of the blue,
but hadn't seen the problem for a month or two and thought it
resolved.
 Is this a widespread problem, and is there a fix? The fact that
it happened days after the most recent reboot seems very strange.
 

During my attempt to run bookworm over the last 3 months I had the problem of the wifi dropping as well.
Couldn't be arsed to find out why. Real life gets in the way.
My Hammer / nut solution is run a cron job every 5 min.
If I can't ping the router then sleep 10
If I still can't ping the router sleep 20
If I still can't ping the router sleep 30
If I still can't ping the router reboot.
I suspect this won't help you but all my pi zeroes are headless and this does (did) work. See my bookworm resolution in the other thread.
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Nev
It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
that so many people are unable to understand what I write.