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PSH:
I have been running Version 21 on a Raspberry Pi reasonably successfully for some time now.  However, every few days it does somehow manage to disappear (crash?).  I can login remotely and start it up again but it would be far better if it just carried on running continuously.  Does anyone have any ideas what I should be looking for?
Many thanks.

mwillems:

--- Quote from: PSH on September 02, 2016, 08:06:36 am ---I have been running Version 21 on a Raspberry Pi reasonably successfully for some time now.  However, every few days it does somehow manage to disappear (crash?).  I can login remotely and start it up again but it would be far better if it just carried on running continuously.  Does anyone have any ideas what I should be looking for?
Many thanks.

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I've seen similar periodic crashes a while back, and I wasn't able to identify the cause.  Eventually I stopped having the problem for ewqually mysterious reasons.  The most likely cause is an out of memory condition; make sure you've set the thumbnailing priority to "low" under options as that's a major culprit. 

A workaround is to run a script on a timer that checks to see if MC is running and restarts it if it isn't.  I used to run a script like that and it works great (you can find an example in the Pi quick start guide in teh second post).

PSH:
Many thanks for your swift reply and suggestions.
I've changed the thumbnail priority so I'll wait and see what happens.
Your script idea sounds excellent and I'll move on to that if the above doesn't solve the problem.
I am a bit baffled though about the script as I'm using RDP a la Hilton.  I found your restart script in that thread but I think the way it is presented assumes that the reader (i.e. me) has a level of programming expertise that I certainly don't have.  Any further hints would be gratefully received.
Thanks again.

PSH:
Aaargh! It's gone again - so the thumbnail option didn't do the trick.
I've upgraded from version 21 to 22 to see whether that might do it.
If not, I'll be back to you about your magic script!

PSH:
OK - so upgrading to version 22 hasn't solved it.
Studying the startup script instructions makes me realise that I had in fact implemented the start at boot script but it never in fact worked............so the periodic check doesn't work either.
I'm wondering whether this is because crontab is in a strange place.  In my system it is at /tmp/crontab.qGKSmc/crontab.
Any comments gratefully received.

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