Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> wrote: > On 08/12/2021 10:50, Chris Green wrote: > > Julio Di Egidio <ju...@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! :-) -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
