Long Duration APRS Failed - [Errno 32] Broken pipe

[kb1lqd]

Summary

During a long duration APRS telemetry run of only a local faraday device using a Raspberry Pi 3 the APRS server stopped due to [Errno 32] Broken pipe.

Problem Explanation

I allowed a single Faraday (local) to log telemetry and upload to APRS but the APRS stopped after a few days. Investigating into why is stopped I noticed that the tmux screen running aprs.py was showing errors:

2017-05-07 05:53:43,321 - APRS - INFO - Tracking 1 Faraday stations...
2017-05-07 05:53:43,322 - APRS - ERROR - SendPosition
2017-05-07 05:53:43,323 - APRS - ERROR - [Errno 32] Broken pipe
2017-05-07 05:53:43,324 - APRS - ERROR - Sendtelemetry
2017-05-07 05:53:43,324 - APRS - ERROR - [Errno 32] Broken pipe
2017-05-07 05:53:43,325 - APRS - ERROR - SendTelemLabels
2017-05-07 05:53:43,326 - APRS - ERROR - [Errno 32] Broken pipe
2017-05-07 05:53:43,327 - APRS - ERROR - SendParameters
2017-05-07 05:53:43,328 - APRS - ERROR - [Errno 32] Broken pipe
2017-05-07 05:53:43,329 - APRS - ERROR - SendEquations
2017-05-07 05:53:43,329 - APRS - ERROR - [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Simply CTRL+C stopping aprs.py and restarting the aprs.py program fixed the issue and aprs.fi shows the Farday unit.

Environment

Software

commit 2ba04caff9affb0376eb4997a92933ba993c56a5
Merge: 71086e8 6340882
Author: Bryce Salmi <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Apr 30 13:02:29 2017 -0700

    Merge pull request #196 from FaradayRF/kb1lqc-patch-1

    Quick Fix To Update Proxy.py To sys.exit(1)

Hardware

• REV D1 Faraday units
• Raspberry Pi 3

Supporting Information

Below is an image of the noted error from the APRS TMUX screen:

Restarting only APRS made APRS properly update to the APRS-IS system:

EDIT (5/7/17):

It looks like this issue or another issue occurred within a few hours after restarting the APRS server... @kb1lqc @reillyeon

I can't start aprs.py event after resetting telemetry and new database or completely resetting all programs including proxy.

[kb1lqd]

PR #271 (and possibly #273) looks to have fixed this issue.