[ETS/PARC List] Repeaters are back!

[Len Griffin]

Rich and I returned to the at 4pm and the repeaters are back.

 

The Pi is powered from a new power supply and usb cable. Pi voltage is 4.98
volts, very good.

 

We connected all the cables, and fired it up. Much to our dismay, we got the
same errors, and nothing worked! This after the EXACT same setup was working
fine on my bench. Hmmm.OK.the problem must be site related. When I tried a '
service asterisk start ', the error message read: A DEPENDANCY FOR
ASTERISK.SERVICE FAILED. SEE JOURNAL.CTL - XN FOR DETAILS. I got my laptop
out to connect to the Pi and save this error file. I needed an ETHERNET
cable to the laptop, and found one hanging behind the rack..wait a
minute.there is NO ETHERNET cable in the Pi! The yellow cable in the rack
had a broken RJ45 tab, so I took one from my laptop case and connected the
router to the Pi. The Pi was again re-booted, and holy-smokes.everything was
working. It seems that due the tab missing on the original cable, it had
slipped out of the Pi without us noticing. The error message did NOT
indicate a missing network, and I am surprised that it would not boot
correctly just because the network was missing, but that appears to be what
it was. Reading the error file yesterday also did not indicate the real
problem.

 

OH-WELL..it is back, running on a much better power source.

 

Len

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