>> I recently bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to use it as a
small server. I installed FC25 on it. The only additional piece of hardware is a bluetooth
keyboard/mouse device, which is connected via usb dongle. On the software side I only
installed a samba server and opened the related ports with a firewall command.
>> This installation is working and I can access the shared folder. However after a
while - it differs - the server isn't available anymore. No ping is possible, also
there is no HDMI signal anymore - the only thing I can do is restart it. I'm keeping
the software up to date, but that doesn't solve the problem.
>> So what I would like to ask is, if there are known stability issues? Or is there
something I can check and maybe fix? Maybe I could provide some details (not sure what -
log doesn't tell anything usefull) to track down any issue.
>
> There's no known issues I've seen running it from a Server PoV but
> there's some common issues. Do you have the storage for the share on a
> USB HDD or is it just sharing space on the SD card? What model of RPi
> is it and what is the amp rating on the power supply. The most common
> issue is caused by a PSU that's not strong enough.
I had exactly the same issue some time ago. The strange thing was that
all USB related devices (keyboard, network card) and HDMI was not
working, but the system was still somehow alive and I was able to
find valid records in logs about the system activities. When I
equipped the RPi with more powerful PSU (5V/3A) the issue disappeared.
My conclusion is that even the RPi do not need to consume much in
average, there are some peaks when it need a lot of current. If a PSU
can not provide the required current, it survives, but USB bridge dies
(it means also NIC).
Yes, USB is a big power draw as is any wireless interface. To date 90%
of stability problems with the RPi that I've seen have been due to not
having a PSU with enough guts.
Peter