Data transmission interrupted intermittently

[aesoprrp]

Running into a new issue... that fix works, but my edits seem to be erased after changing anything within my setup on my Pi. Even though I save it and reboot every time. Any ideas as to why my edits don't persist? Does the FR24 auto-update revert the .ini files to their original form?

[wiedehopf]

Can you post the output of

ls /boot
ls -l /etc/fr24feed.ini
mount | grep mmcblk

If you are on a fr24 sd-card image then it seems the main partition is read-only.
Not sure why. Maybe if there is a config file in /boot you can change the setting there.

[abcd567]

sudo chmod a+rw /etc/fr24feed.ini

[wiedehopf]

sudo chmod a+x /etc/fr24feed.ini

Making it executable won't help with making it writeable.
Making it writable would be this:

sudo chmod a+w /etc/fr24feed.ini

Anyhow if the main partition is mounted read only which seems to be the case with the current fr24 sd-card image, then this won't work.

[abcd567]

Oops, instead of a+rw, I wrote a+x.
Corrected it now.

[abcd567]

From fr24feed installation script:

# Run the signup wizard
if [ $AUTO_SIGNUP -eq 0 ]; then
    fr24feed --signup
    chmod a+rw /etc/fr24feed.ini
    
    # Restart the feeder software
    systemctl restart fr24feed
fi

[aesoprrp]

Can you post the output of

ls /boot
ls -l /etc/fr24feed.ini
mount | grep mmcblk

If you are on a fr24 sd-card image then it seems the main partition is read-only.
Not sure why. Maybe if there is a config file in /boot you can change the setting there.

I'm not on a fr24 sd-card image, I built it from scratch (stretch). Here's a screenshot of the outputs of all three of those commands:

IMG_7742.jpg

Looks to me like the file is read/write? I'm at work right now so I can't dig into it too much but let me know if anything jumps out.

[wiedehopf]

After saving and exiting, can you open the file again and check if the changes are still present?

Maybe you are not actually saving it? (Not sure what else it could be, i don't think the automatic update is messing with the config file at least i would hope it is not)

[aesoprrp]

Yeah, the changes are still there after I save, exit, and re-open. I'll try to replicate the problem tonight. FWIW, I did just re-install the FlightAware feeder, which required a reboot, and that's when I noticed that the data transmission was intermittent again. So either the reboot caused the change, or somehow the installation of the FlightAware feeder changed something, which would be surprising.

[wiedehopf]

Did you run through the signup dialogue?

That probably overwrites the settings file with the information you entered.