Apache2 not starting on soft reboot.

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#2160567 13-Jan-2019 20:47

My bad. It is intended to provide the status of the start attempt. Soft boot and then run sudo systemctl status apache2 and post the output.

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#2160571 13-Jan-2019 20:50

chevrolux:Edit: my understanding of Debian though is that it doesn't rc.local though....

Well, my Ubuntu 18.10 does. There's a systemd service called rc-local.service, description "/etc/rc.local Compatibility", and it does work.

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#2160582 13-Jan-2019 21:12

● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2019-01-13 21:08:45 NZDT; 2min 2s ago

Process: 442 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Jan 13 21:08:34 max2play systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...

Jan 13 21:08:45 max2play systemd[1]: apache2.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.

Jan 13 21:08:45 max2play systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.

Jan 13 21:08:45 max2play systemd[1]: apache2.service: Unit entered failed state.

Jan 13 21:08:45 max2play systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Thats it....

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#2160586 13-Jan-2019 21:28

What sort of SD card are you using on this Pi? Is it a known brand Class 10 card?

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jandal160165

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#2160589 13-Jan-2019 21:37

Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...

pi@max2play:~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1048576 count=200

200+0 records in

200+0 records out

209715200 bytes (210 MB, 200 MiB) copied, 27.099 s, 7.7 MB/s

pi@max2play:~ $ dd if=test of=/dev/null bs=1048576

200+0 records in

200+0 records out

209715200 bytes (210 MB, 200 MiB) copied, 0.254257 s, 825 MB/s

I think its a sandisk.... but did buy it in a reputable? chinese shop in china :(

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#2160702 14-Jan-2019 00:10

That is pretty slow - I would replace it with a proper SD card. It looks like that may be the reason for Apache timing out. This is only a guess as during boot the system is doing quite a few other things which could explain why a service bails out from starting.

This is mine with a Class 10 SD:
209715200 bytes (210 MB, 200 MiB) copied, 10.4511 s, 20.1 MB/s

However note also, this is also a High Endurance SD card as it has quite a few logs written to it (so is slower, but more reliable).

SD cards are cheap. Stay away from the Sandisk Ultra cards as they have rubbish controllers in them, but consider grabbing a Samsung Evo card and giving that a go - you can use something like w32diskimager or dd on *nix to image the old card to the new one.

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#2160703 14-Jan-2019 00:14

Hey thanks. Will order one on payday. I have got that same card that you said stay away from. Dang.

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jandal160165

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#2161065 14-Jan-2019 17:34

Found a quicker memory card. Not much quicker. But its made quiet a big improvement. Mostly Apache2 always starts. And if it doesn't a soft reboot will mean that it does the next time. I will still get a quicker card.

Thanks everyone for your help. Im calling this one [SOLVED]

mm1352000

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#2161077 14-Jan-2019 18:01

As a workaround, it may also be possible to increase a timeout setting to enable the system to wait a little longer for services to start.

jandal160165

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#2161078 14-Jan-2019 18:03

That sounds very feasible

jandal160165

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#2162066 16-Jan-2019 16:16

Got my memory card on the way. Has anyone put copper heatsinks on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+? Did it make much difference? Where did you get them from? Cheers

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#2162850 17-Jan-2019 23:30

My samsung evo has made a big difference. It boots much faster. Cool

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