Raspberry Pi new install cannot download binary

jinapatton

Attempting a new setup, I had to create the starter.sh script by hand, and did chmod +x it. The log in /tmp/log_starter.txt keeps showing:

Downloading the OTM binary.
Download failed. Retrying...

Looking at line 103 of starter.sh, I noted

CURL_CMD="curl --silent --connect-timeout 15 --max-time 30 --request POST https://www.foxymon.com/receiver/receiver2.php"

I attempted this in my windows browser, authenticated, and then was met with a completely blank page even in the dev console.

Is there something I should update in the script to point to a site that hosts the binary?

OutagesIO_Support

Hi,

Can you explain what you mean by you had to create the script by hand?

When you install a new Pi agent, the info pages provide two links. One for the service and another for the /etc/agentid.

The only think you have to do is to make sure the /etc/agentid is where it's supposed to be and that the service is created along with the /otm directory.

Once that's done, it should be as simple as starting the new service and the rest is automatic.

If you can expand on what you are doing, I'll try to help.

jinapatton

Okay, so I followed this: https://www.outagesio.com/monitor-your-internet-with-raspberry-pi-nanopi-and-other-arm-devices/

And it fails with the following:

root@pihole:/otm# systemctl status otm.service
● otm.service - Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/otm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2024-09-15 20:09:58 CDT; 20s ago
  Process: 2633 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2634 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/curl -s https://downloads.echonets.com/scripts/starter.sh -o /otm/starter.sh (code
  Process: 2636 ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod +x /otm/starter.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2637 ExecStart=/bin/bash /otm/starter.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2662 (code=exited, status=2)

Sep 15 20:09:15 pihole systemd[1]: Starting Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent...
Sep 15 20:09:46 pihole bash[2637]: => Function: send_starter_version
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole bash[2637]: Starting OTM then exiting this script
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: Started Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent.
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
lines 1-15/15 (END)
● otm.service - Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/otm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2024-09-15 20:09:58 CDT; 20s ago
  Process: 2633 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2634 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/curl -s https://downloads.echonets.com/scripts/starter.sh -o /otm/starter.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2636 ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod +x /otm/starter.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2637 ExecStart=/bin/bash /otm/starter.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2662 (code=exited, status=2)

Sep 15 20:09:15 pihole systemd[1]: Starting Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent...
Sep 15 20:09:46 pihole bash[2637]: => Function: send_starter_version
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole bash[2637]: Starting OTM then exiting this script
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: Started Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent.
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Sep 15 20:09:58 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

The file is now working for download as shown:

root@pihole:/otm# ls -alhst
total 252K
240K -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 239K Sep 15 20:09 otm_binary
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Sep 15 20:09 .
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3.6K Sep 15 20:09 starter.sh
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Sep 15 20:08 ..

From the log_starter.txt log

root@pihole:/otm# cat /tmp/log_starter.txt


=> Function: create_empty_log

   run_curl
   curl --silent --connect-timeout 15 --max-time 30 --request POST https://www.foxymon.com/receiver/receiver2.php -u SI2VopkqJs:3hCejvzEbaNRsqZ7ySmgV4WLMtcu8wTfr9noHQ6I -F function=send_starter_version -F version=2023-07-21_0930_Phoenix_TZ
   Wait 5 seconds
   Attempting execution
   Answer: 1
   CURL executed

=> Function: check_to_download_new_otm

   run_curl
   curl --silent --connect-timeout 15 --max-time 30 --request POST https://www.foxymon.com/receiver/receiver2.php -u SI2VopkqJs:3hCejvzEbaNRsqZ7ySmgV4WLMtcu8wTfr9noHQ6I -F function=receive_binary_location
   Wait 5 seconds
   Attempting execution
   Answer: https://downloads.echonets.com/otm/arm64_otm_1_81_2401
   CURL executed
https://downloads.echonets.com/otm/arm64_otm_1_81_2401
OTM binaries are different.
   Downloading the OTM binary.
   Download successful.
Starting OTM binary.
OTM binary started with PID 2662

More interesting is what's in the otm.log

root@pihole:/otm# cat /tmp/otm.log
/otm/otm_binary: 1: /otm/otm_binary: ELF��n@X�@8: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 2: /otm/otm_binary: �@: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 3: /otm/otm_binary: T
                                      ��: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 3: /otm/otm_binary: H���gF
                                           M: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 5: /otm/otm_binary: �v5�␦�%
8
 %����Z����: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 7: /otm/otm_binary: ��
                                       �: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 7: /otm/otm_binary: �������: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 1: /otm/otm_binary: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

OutagesIO_Support

Ah, I see that we have to update some articles.
Just follow the steps when creating an agent, don't follow that article please and let me know what happens.

jinapatton

Okay, so cleared the otm directory completely to allow for a fresh download

root@pihole:/# mkdir otm
root@pihole:/# cd /otm
root@pihole:/otm# cd ~
root@pihole:~# systemctl daemon-reload
root@pihole:~# systemctl start otm.service
root@pihole:~# systemctl status otm.service
● otm.service - Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/otm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2024-09-15 20:35:46 CDT; 28s ago
  Process: 2839 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2845 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/curl -s https://downloads.echonets.com/scripts/starter.sh -o /otm/starter.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUC
  Process: 2847 ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod +x /otm/starter.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2848 ExecStart=/bin/bash /otm/starter.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2874 (code=exited, status=2)

Sep 15 20:35:03 pihole systemd[1]: Starting Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent...
Sep 15 20:35:34 pihole bash[2848]: => Function: send_starter_version
Sep 15 20:35:46 pihole bash[2848]: Starting OTM then exiting this script
Sep 15 20:35:46 pihole systemd[1]: Started Startup of the OutagesIO Internet monitor agent.
Sep 15 20:35:46 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Sep 15 20:35:46 pihole systemd[1]: otm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Popped into the otm directory, and starter was there:

root@pihole:~# cd otm
root@pihole:~/otm# ls
starter.sh

I had cleared the otm log, after this above execution, fresh output.

root@pihole:~/otm# cat /tmp/otm.log
/otm/otm_binary: 1: /otm/otm_binary: ELF��n@X�@8: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 2: /otm/otm_binary: �@: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 3: /otm/otm_binary: T
                                      ��: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 3: /otm/otm_binary: H���gF
                                           M: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 5: /otm/otm_binary: �v5�␦�%
8
 %����Z����: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 7: /otm/otm_binary: ��
                                       �: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 7: /otm/otm_binary: �������: not found
/otm/otm_binary: 1: /otm/otm_binary: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

OutagesIO_Support

The reason this is showing us because it is the Linux binary that is being run, not the ARM one.

There might be a bug in the new method we've started using. It seems even when you select Pi, it's giving you the Linux binary.

I can have the developer that works on this look at it tomorrow and fix it. Once it's done, I can update this post.

We appreciate your letting us know because we were not aware of this issue.

jinapatton

I'm happy to be your test bed for this fix. I already have a script wrote to wipe both logs and the /otm folder.

OutagesIO_Support

Thanks for your patience. We'll certainly fix this tomorrow and update you also.

OutagesIO_Support

Question, what hardware exactly are you using? Which version of Pi, make and model please.

OutagesIO_Support

We see that everything is fine, the service is downloading the correct binary. We suspect that the hardware is not compatible with the aarch64 ARM binary.

For a test, please download the binary directly, then make it executable, then just run it like ./arm64_otm_1_81_2401

https://downloads.echonets.com/otm/arm64_otm_1_81_2401

Let us know the make/model of the Pi and what happens when you run it manually.

jinapatton

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with 10 / Buster.

240K -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 239K Sep 11 15:57 arm64_otm_1_81_2401
root@pihole:/otm# ./arm64_otm_1_81_2401
bash: ./arm64_otm_1_81_2401: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

I can format it to 11 / Bullseye, but if that's still too old I can grab a new one, as I run a pi-hole I'll maintain a raspberry pi for my installation.

OutagesIO_Support

The Raspberry Pi 3 B+ typically runs a 32bit operating system by default, even though the hardware is 64bit capable.

If you're using a 32bit OS, the binary cannot work.

The binary is compiled as a 64bit executable, it won't run on a 32bit OS, which is likely the cause of the error you're seeing.

Here’s how you can check:

Confirm OS architecture: Run the following command to confirm if your OS is 32bit or 64bit:

uname -m

If the output is armv7l, it’s a 32bit OS. If it’s aarch64, then it’s 64bit.

Try running this against the binary that gets downloaded;

file /otm/otm_binary

OutagesIO_Support

Sorry, I didn't' see your reply before completing mine. Yes, you would need a 64bit OS running on the device for otm to run on this.

Hope this helps to solve the mystery.

jinapatton

All good, cleared up for now. Ordered a Pi 5, will be here tomorrow.

OutagesIO_Support

Great, let us know how that goes. It should work no problem.

jinapatton

Alright, we're in business. Purchased a Pi 5 for the PiHole / OTM client, working grand. The Pi 3 was formatted to the latest OS, and brought up as a purely OTM client.

Should I start a new thread about moving licenses and renaming things to let this be as something searchable for others in case they see this themselves?

OutagesIO_Support

If it's s different topic, best to start a new one otherwise, it gets lost in the thread. If you don't mind :).

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