[SOLVED] RPi3A+ Network instability.

[Tim Curtis]

I set locale to Europe/London on a Pi 4B 4GB and was not able to repro the fail when enabling swap.

Here's the console log starting with a fresh 9.0.3

Code:

# LOCALE
pi@moode9test:~ $ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

# SERVICE STATUS (disabled)
pi@moode9test:~ $ systemctl status dphys-swapfile.service
○ dphys-swapfile.service - dphys-swapfile - set up, mount/unmount, and delete a swap file
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dphys-swapfile.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
    Active: inactive (dead)
      Docs: man:dphys-swapfile(8)

# ENABLE SERVICE
pi@moode9test:~ $ sudo systemctl enable dphys-swapfile.service
Synchronizing state of dphys-swapfile.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable dphys-swapfile
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dphys-swapfile.service → /lib/systemd/system/dphys-swapfile.service.

# REBOOT
pi@moode9test:~ $ sudo reboot

# SERVICE STATUS (enabled)
pi@moode9test:~ $ systemctl status dphys-swapfile.service
● dphys-swapfile.service - dphys-swapfile - set up, mount/unmount, and delete a swap file
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dphys-swapfile.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Active: active (exited) since Tue 2024-07-02 00:27:23 BST; 6min ago
      Docs: man:dphys-swapfile(8)
  Main PID: 485 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
       CPU: 172ms

Jul 02 00:27:22 moode9test systemd[1]: Starting dphys-swapfile.service - dphys-swapfile - set up, mount/unmount, and delete a swap file...
Jul 02 00:27:23 moode9test dphys-swapfile[372]: want /var/swap=100MByte, generating swapfile ... of 100MBytes
Jul 02 00:27:23 moode9test systemd[1]: Finished dphys-swapfile.service - dphys-swapfile - set up, mount/unmount, and delete a swap file.

# SWAPFILE SIZE 100MB
pi@moode9test:~ $ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:             907         223         401           4         339         683
Swap:             99           0          99
pi@moode9test:~ $