rpimonitor not starting automatically

[schlomo]

Creating a bug report/issue

• I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=8
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=25
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'

• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN

buster 1

• Kernel version | uname -a

Linux emby 5.10.103-v7l+ #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:24:00 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

• SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)

RPi 4 Model B (armv7l)

• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)

5V 2A

Additional Information (if applicable)

• Software title | rpimonitor
• Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? updated
• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? don't have other system to test, sorry

Steps to reproduce

1. didn't update DietPi for several months
2. ran dietpi-update
3. reboot

Expected behaviour

rpimonitor should auto-start upon booting

Actual behaviour

rpimonitor doesn't start after reboot

Extra details

Seems like auto start is not supported?

Also enabling it via dietpi-services didn't help:

Potential fix

I "fixed" this problem by creating a /etc/systemd/system/rpimonitor.service.d/override.conf file with this content:

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Joulinar]

buster 1

Your system is extremely old as you are running Debian Buster still. From our end we will drop Buster support on next DietPi release v9. You should consider upgrading to Debian Bullseye at least. https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=811

As well we did not change anything on this software title since a year at least.

Next, RPIMonitor software has not been updated since ages as the project stopped somewhere 2017. XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor-deb#25 Probably we should remove the title from our list.

Personally, I tested RPIMonitor on my RPi3B+ running Debian Bookworm without issues. Services is starting after reboot.

root@DietPi3:~# systemctl status rpimonitor
● rpimonitor.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/rpimonitor; generated)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-01-02 20:18:04 CET; 1min 47s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 290 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/rpimonitor start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 2176)
        CPU: 1.160s
     CGroup: /system.slice/rpimonitor.service
             ├─392 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/rpimonitord -b /var/run/rpimonitord.pid -l /var/log/rpimonitor.log
             ├─393 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/rpimonitord -b /var/run/rpimonitord.pid -l /var/log/rpimonitor.log
             └─394 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/rpimonitord -b /var/run/rpimonitord.pid -l /var/log/rpimonitor.log

Jan 02 20:18:02 DietPi3 systemd[1]: Starting rpimonitor.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor daemon...
Jan 02 20:18:04 DietPi3 rpimonitor[290]: Starting RPi-Monitor:.
Jan 02 20:18:04 DietPi3 systemd[1]: Started rpimonitor.service - LSB: RPi-Monitor daemon.
root@DietPi3:~#

[schlomo]

Thanks @Joulinar I'll upgrade and report back. Very good point indeed, and high time for me to do so.