T95Z Plus TV Box (S912) NAS dropping out

[JBHudston]

I have installed Armbian_22.11.0_Aml_s912-m8s_bullseye_5.10.142_server_2022.09.14.img.gz on the T95Z Plus box. Installed Gnome and setup a samba share of a 4TB USB hard drive (formatted NTFS).

The samba share works fine but connection keeps randomly dropping while playing mp3s or videos from windows PC or Kodi/FireTV

I am connected by ethernet and have turn off wifi.

I repeatably get the following error log in syslog:

Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty hostapd[130771]: Could not open configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' for reading.
Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty hostapd[130771]: Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty hostapd[130771]: Failed to initialize interface
Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov  2 14:32:13 VideoNASty systemd[1]: Failed to start Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet.`

and the samba log shows:
`[2022/10/26 22:11:29.576909,  0] ../../source3/smbd/service.c:168(chdir_current_service)
  chdir_current_service: vfs_ChDir(/media/spudgun/4TB USB HD/NAS) failed: Permission denied. Current token: uid=1000, gid=1000, 13 groups: 1000 5 6 20 27 29 44 46 60 100 101 106 111
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.146024,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.150871,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.545755,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.556669,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.565281,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:02:51.575333,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error
[2022/10/26 23:03:10.444670,  0] ../../source3/smbd/vfs.c:1081(vfs_GetWd)
  vfs_GetWd: SMB_VFS_GETWD call failed: Input/output error

[ophub]

sudo systemctl status hostapd
sudo systemctl disable hostapd

chmod 777 /media/spudgun/4TB

[JBHudston]

Thanks for your help.

I gave the incorrect version in my first post.
I have the following installed:
Armbian 22.11.0-trunk Jammy with Linux 5.15.62-flippy-76+o

root@VideoNASty:~# sudo systemctl status hostapd
● hostapd.service - Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (start) since Thu 2022-11-03 09:36:56 GMT; 14ms ago
       Docs: man:hostapd(8)
Cntrl PID: 172951 (hostapd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 1853)
     Memory: 124.0K
        CPU: 3ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/hostapd.service

Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty systemd[1]: Starting Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet...
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty hostapd[172951]: Could not open configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' for reading.
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty hostapd[172951]: Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty hostapd[172951]: Failed to initialize interface
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 03 09:36:56 VideoNASty systemd[1]: Failed to start Access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet.

`
root@VideoNASty:~# sudo systemctl disable hostapd
Synchronizing state of hostapd.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable hostapd
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/hostapd.service.
`
`root@VideoNASty:~# chmod 777 "/media/spudgun/4TB USB HD"`

[ophub]

It is recommended not to use spaces in the directory name, there will be some software incompatibility problems.

4TB_USB_HD

[JBHudston]

I have renamed the drive without spaces.

The Wi-Fi error has stopped now.

However the share still drops randomly.
Also I don’t get log files for the FireTV boxes that access the share via Kodi. Why would this be?

[ophub]

Turn off automatic hibernation for shared hard drives.
Mount with uuid, not lable.
Open the log in kodi and save it to a fixed path.

[JBHudston]

I believe I have already disabled auto hibernation: In Gnome settings>Power>Power Saving Options.Screen Blank = Never?

Should Mount options be (UUID=123456789):
Mount Point = /mnt/123456789
Identify As = UUID=123456789

I've also set Mount at Startup = On

I'll post the log from kodi

[ophub]

blkid

write to:
/etc/fstab

[JBHudston]

root@VideoNASty:~# blkid
/dev/mmcblk2p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="BOOT_EMMC" LABEL="BOOT_EMMC" UUID="7EDD-ED4D" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk2p2: LABEL="ROOTFS_EMMC" UUID="f33e65f2-a814-4397-82c6-6e13f38e3636" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/zram0: UUID="312b4f0c-eb8a-4cbd-8fdf-38a7af9f0a34" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram1: LABEL="log2ram" UUID="291d8bda-354b-407c-984a-fcb759288fa7" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/zram2: LABEL="tmp" UUID="63444e5d-0146-4d24-8964-3d26bcc152e0" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="4TB" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="46A028775931E054" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="53487fb5-959f-4346-8d82-fdbd68b85e9a"

[JBHudston]

sudo nano /etc/fstab

UUID=f33e65f2-a814-4397-82c6-6e13f38e3636  /        ext4     defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro     0 1
LABEL=BOOT_EMMC      /boot    vfat                    defaults                  0 2
tmpfs                /tmp     tmpfs                   defaults,nosuid           0 0
UUID=46A028775931E054 /mnt/46A028775931E054 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

[ophub]

The ntfs format is not well supported under linux, ext4 and btrfs are recommended