Bubba 2 WiFi query

[theWebalyst]

I suspect I just had a problem with Bubba but am not sure. Please advise based on symptoms.

Setup which has been working (Bubba up for about 30 days):
Bubba|2 WiFi + Bubba Storage, acting as firewall/router and connected to cable modem
Two Windos XP PCs and one Windows 7 PC accessing Bubba / Internet using WiFi
All working smoothly, then...

No internet connectivity
No Windows connectivity to \\bubba
Cable modem LEDs showing no traffic
ALl PCs still show connected to Bubba WiFi network (though Windows 7 connection status "Limited Access")
Bubba|2 blue LED is on

I left it like this for about 30 minutes but no change. Very occasional flicker on cable modem (probably probed by cable provider for mail forwarding), but clearly no traffic.

I went to shut down bubba and noticed B & BS are hot. I estimate 60 C (from schooldays I recall 70 C is just too hot to stay in contact with). Wondered if B had crashed, but if so, can WiFi can still appear connected? (Room temp is 24 C)

BUT!

When I press bubba shutdown button, blue LED flashed as expected until B was shutdown. Once shutdown, I pressed shutdown button again and everything is back to normal.

So my questions for support are:
1) does the LED shutdown procedure suggest Bubba was running fine? And if so, what might cause these symptoms?

2) what fault NOT in Bubba could cause these symptoms (I can't think of any!)

3) what fault in Bubba might cause these symptoms?

4) does hot, but not too hot to keep touching sound too much for Bubba? (I have increased ventilation by putting spacers under B and between B and BS)

Thanks

Mark

[RandomUsername]

Sounds like something crashed on the Bubba. The heat is concerning but it could be explained by a process on the Bubba going crazy and using 100% of the CPU. I think the fact the Bubba still shutdown shows it's nothing to be too alarmed about. Have you modded the Bubba in anyway - i.e. installed any non-standard software etc?

Computers crash, it's a fact of life. I'd wait and see if it happens again. It might be a good idea to monitor the temperature over the next few days though.

[theWebalyst]

Dear RU,

Thanks for the quick reply. Modified? Non-standard (lol) s/w? Well I have an rsyncd process running but and have installed some other Debian packages, but there's nothing sounding like a culprit. I've been using SSH to run rsync remotely to mirror lots of stuff onto Bubba. Not much else.

Will do as you suggest,

Mark

[theWebalyst]

Oh dear...

..after 30 minutes or so I lost connectivity from the Windows 7 PC, while at least one of the others continued with Internet access, but within a few more minutes everything was as before. No access to Bubba/internet. Power down procedure ok. This time I've left Bubba off to cool right down (switched to my old WiFi router termporarily to write this). When I restart Bubba, if it is temp related it should I expect last longer, and I think it will be a cooler day tomorrow!

Mark

[RandomUsername]

Have you looked in the system log or anything? You can do it through the web interface if you're comfortable with SSHing into the box.

[theWebalyst]

Have you looked in the system log or anything? You can do it through the web interface if you're comfortable with SSHing into the box.

Hmm, not looking good. Left Bubba off all night so I could do a temperature test this morning:

Bubba boots, seemed a while before WiFi would connect but then ok. No internet. Examined syslog and it seems the following section is repeated ALL DAY yesterday (and no doubt earlier). The start of the syslog is 06:30 and Bubba failed aourd 16:30 so the following errors were occuring for at least 12 hours before Bubba stopped responding. Any ideas as to what this is about?

The following is from the start of /var/log/syslog

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Jul 21 06:27:58 bubba syslogd 1.4.1#18: restart.
Jul 21 06:30:01 bubba /USR/SBIN/CRON[30713]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/bin/php && /usr/bin/php /usr/share/horde3/scripts/alarms.php)
Jul 21 06:30:01 bubba /USR/SBIN/CRON[30714]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /usr/bin/vnstat ] && [ `ls /var/lib/vnstat/ | wc -l` -ge 1 ]; then /usr/bin/vnstat -u; fi)
Jul 21 06:30:01 bubba /USR/SBIN/CRON[30715]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/lib/web-admin/notify-dispatcher.pl && /usr/lib/web-admin/notify-dispatcher.pl)
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: hp: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1ca0] [c0008334] 0xc0008334 (unreliable)
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1cd0] [c0063568] 0xc0063568
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1d60] [c00844c0] 0xc00844c0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1dc0] [c0084830] 0xc0084830
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1de0] [c0279474] 0xc0279474
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1e00] [d107b034] 0xd107b034
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1e20] [d125185c] 0xd125185c
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1e80] [d12509ec] 0xd12509ec
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1ea0] [c0027ab0] 0xc0027ab0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1ec0] [c0028628] 0xc0028628
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1f00] [c0006230] 0xc0006230
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1f10] [c0028414] 0xc0028414
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1f20] [c00062d0] 0xc00062d0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1f40] [c0011c3c] 0xc0011c3c
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: --- Exception: 501 at 0x48005edc
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel:     LR = 0x48005e88
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Mem-Info:
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: CPU    0: hi:   90, btch:  15 usd:  82
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: active_anon:5833 inactive_anon:16887 isolated_anon:0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel:  active_file:12411 inactive_file:19358 isolated_file:0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel:  unevictable:0 dirty:3515 writeback:0 unstable:0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel:  free:1494 slab_reclaimable:2044 slab_unreclaimable:4560
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel:  mapped:4819 shmem:1968 pagetables:541 bounce:0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: DMA free:5976kB min:2036kB low:2544kB high:3052kB active_anon:23332kB inactive_anon:67548kB active_file:49644kB inactive_file:77432kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:260096kB mlocked:0kB dirty:14060kB writeback:0kB mapped:19276kB shmem:7872kB slab_reclaimable:8176kB slab_unreclaimable:18240kB kernel_stack:1000kB pagetables:2164kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: DMA: 1398*4kB 48*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 5976kB
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 33738 total pagecache pages
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 0 pages in swap cache
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Total swap = 0kB
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 65536 pages RAM
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 1583 pages reserved
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 52951 pages shared
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: 28410 pages non-shared
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: skbuff alloc of size 3872 failed
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: php: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1ca0] [c0008334] 0xc0008334 (unreliable)
Jul 21 06:30:05 bubba kernel: [cf3a1cd0] [c0063568] 0xc0063568
etc


[Binkem]

I would suggest you try to contact the Excito crew by mail. There may be some fault with your Bubba hardware. If so they may be able to correct this by swapping your Bubba.

[theWebalyst]

I would suggest you try to contact the Excito crew by mail. There may be some fault with your Bubba hardware. If so they may be able to correct this by swapping your Bubba.

Yes, good idea, thanks.

Done