Odd locale error that has disappeared on reboot.

[Chris Green]

Julio Di Egidio <julio at diegidio.name> wrote:
> On 08/12/2021 10:50, Chris Green wrote:
> > Julio Di Egidio <julio at diegidio.name> wrote:
> >> On 07/12/2021 16:28, Chris Green wrote:
> >>> What could have caused this?  I certainly wasn't around at 03:40! :-)
> >>> There aren't any automatic updates enabled on the system, the only
> >>> thing that might have been going on was a backup as that Pi is also
> >>> my 'NAS' with a big USB drive connected to it.  The backups have been
> >>> running without problems for more than a year.  Looking at the system
> >>> logs shows that a backup was started at 03:35 so I suppose that *could*
> >>> have provoked something but I fail to understand how.
> >>
> >> Since it's a one-off, doesn't sound like a system problem.  The easiest
> >> might be that you try-catch that call and retry when needed, and I'd
> >> also check that 'ftxt' is what it should be: "external devices" may
> >> fail, including when they do produce output...
> >>
> > Well it repeated every ten minutes through the night until I rebooted
> > the system, so it wasn't really a "one off".  I hasn't repeated since
> > though.
> 
> Still your code wouldn't pass review: you do need some exception 
> handling there, that it's not failing right now is no excuse.  Moreover, 
> next time it fails, you won't be any wiser since you keep not handling 
> it...  Unless this is all just for fun, in which case of course never mind.
> 
It is basically 'just for fun' we wanted to see how warm/cold the
cats' home above our garage was now that winter has arrived.

However catching and re-trying isn't going to help at all.  It happily
produced the same arror every 10 minutes throughout the night until I
rebooted the system.  I suppose I *could* reboot after (say) three
failures but it seems a bit drastic! :-)

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Chris Green
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