I have an old 2B that I've been using to capture time-lapse photos from a dSLR via gphoto2 during honey bee swarm season.
I removed the camera last summer, (but apparently left the Pi running, doing nothing) until today, when I went down to the shed to plug the camera back in.
When I SSHed into the pi, the command line was really slow. and I guessed that the SD card might have been really full from the last season's activity, so I cd'ed into the /jpg directory and deleted all the jpgs.
Within a minute or so my time-lapse service kicked in, I heard the camera click, and I had one new jpg in the directory.
I figured I'd do a sudo reboot just to make sure the Pi was happy, but it failed to reboot somehow. I could not SSH into it, nor could I ping it, nor did it show up as Online in my router's DHCP reservation list.
The red and green LEDs were lit solid, but the Ethernet jack did not light up.
I brought the Pi and its power supply back up to the house to plug it into an HDMI monitor and Ethernet.
When I plug it into power, I get the rainbow screen for half a second, and then nothing. Both Pi LEDs remain solid, but the Ethernet jack stays dark.
I've let it sit for 10 minutes, I've left it unplugged for 10 minutes between reboots, I've removed and reseated the SD card, and I've sacrificed a chicken.
Is there anything else I can do to salvage what's on this Pi? I'd like to avoid having to reinstall everything, because I didn't make a backup, and quite honestly I've forgotten a good deal of what I wrote in my scripts last year.
Thanks!
I removed the camera last summer, (but apparently left the Pi running, doing nothing) until today, when I went down to the shed to plug the camera back in.
When I SSHed into the pi, the command line was really slow. and I guessed that the SD card might have been really full from the last season's activity, so I cd'ed into the /jpg directory and deleted all the jpgs.
Within a minute or so my time-lapse service kicked in, I heard the camera click, and I had one new jpg in the directory.
I figured I'd do a sudo reboot just to make sure the Pi was happy, but it failed to reboot somehow. I could not SSH into it, nor could I ping it, nor did it show up as Online in my router's DHCP reservation list.
The red and green LEDs were lit solid, but the Ethernet jack did not light up.
I brought the Pi and its power supply back up to the house to plug it into an HDMI monitor and Ethernet.
When I plug it into power, I get the rainbow screen for half a second, and then nothing. Both Pi LEDs remain solid, but the Ethernet jack stays dark.
I've let it sit for 10 minutes, I've left it unplugged for 10 minutes between reboots, I've removed and reseated the SD card, and I've sacrificed a chicken.
Is there anything else I can do to salvage what's on this Pi? I'd like to avoid having to reinstall everything, because I didn't make a backup, and quite honestly I've forgotten a good deal of what I wrote in my scripts last year.
Thanks!
Statistics: Posted by TheWaterbug — Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:12 am
