python script crashes after long time running

Question

I have a python 2.7 script running on a Raspberry Pi 3.

class UIThread(threading.Thread):

   def __init__(self, threadID, name, counter, U):

    threading.Thread.__init__(self)

    self.threadID = threadID

    self.name = name

    self.counter = counter

    self.U = U

  def run(self):

    self.U.run()

def main():

  time.sleep(3)

  try:
     try:
         ###launch a UI running as background thread#####
         U = UIlib.UI()
         thread1 = UIThread(1, "UI", 1, U)
         thread1.daemon = True
         thread1.start()

     except:
         ###if there is no monitor, lanch a fake UI class#######
         U = UIlib.nomonitorUI()
         thread1 = UIThread(1, "NMUI", 1, U)
         thread1.daemon = True
         thread1.start()

         print "No Monitor detected"
         pass

    ####perform interaction with the BQ chip, contain a while true loop######
     char_balan(U)

  except:
    e = sys.exc_info()
    print e
    print "UI exit"

Basely what it does is to send a message through UART to a chip, obtain response message, update log files and print it onto the UI (a UI displayed on monitor created by python curses). It does this every 1 second.

The script has no bug running for 32 hours then it crashes. The UI is crashed and covered with error message:" cannot open shsh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6 : cannot open shared object file..." I have googled this message but didn't find anything related to my python script

I have checked the memory status of the Raspberry Pi. The python process uses about 1/4 of the total memory at the 32th hour. So it is not the memory causing crash. Also, I have tried to run it without a monitor, which will launch a fake UI class without python.curses. same crash happened at the 32th hour.

Now, I am out of idea about why the script crashes.

Answer 1

I have a stack of 8 raspberry pi's working as a seedbox. I had encountered the same error and the nearest official answer that i got from one of my raspi developer friend was that some older kernels have some incompatible bugs with the hardware. Updating to the latest Pixel version would solve your issue.