So I’ve had my ZimaOS up and running for a day or two. Yesterday it began randomly becoming unreachable. As in my apps won’t connect to the server and I’m unable to access the ZimOS host via its IP address. However when I hard restart the hardware I am able to access it again. Everything looks fine/normal on the ZimaOS device (the screen where you can ssh and it shows up time, ip address, etc.)
I’m not sure if this could be the issue but I did change to a static IP address in the GUI. Doubt that’s the issue but thought I’d give that context. Is there any way to provide logs or see what happened before I restart the device again?
A static IP change definitely could be related, especially if something else on the network is trying to hand out the same address or if the gateway/DNS settings didn’t fully apply. The tricky part is the screen still showing the system as “alive” while the network stack becomes unreachable.
Before hard rebooting next time, it would be really useful to see if the box itself is frozen or just the network side.
If you still have local keyboard/screen access when it happens, try checking:
ip addr
ip route
ping 8.8.8.8
ping <your-router-ip>
Also worth checking from another machine on the network whether the ZimaOS IP still responds to ping when the UI disappears.
For logs, these are probably the most useful after it comes back online:
journalctl -b -1 -p err
and:
dmesg | tail -100
That will show errors from the previous boot before the restart.
Since you mentioned the static IP change, I’d also verify there isn’t another device already using that same IP address. Intermittent IP conflicts can look exactly like this, system appears running locally but randomly disappears from the network.