Armbian build framework

There's a typo in nfs-boot.cmd.template, line 9. s/nfsroot={nfs_root}/nfsroot=${nfs_root}/ Nevertheless thanks for the template. Regards, Steve

Implement them to board configuration like: DEFAULT_OVERLAY="usbhost2" or hardcode into device tree?

Hello First issue: With the 5.4.18-sunxi64 kernel when you select in Armbian-config to install kernel headers it installs the wrong version, it install kernel headers for 5.3 something instead of the 5.4.18. The way that I was able to work is by compiling the 5.4.18-sunxi64 Linux version including the Kernel headers. I have attached it here. Second issue: When "make scripts" and make modules_prepare instead of link to the 5.4.18-sunxi64 it creates a link for modules in 5.4.18 which makes the modules useless, since it doesnt go to the correct /lib/modules library. instead that the modules will be installed in lib/modules/5.…

Hi everyone, I use Orangepipc and want to make full encryption of the root file system, I applied the following topics, but each time it says "starting kernel ..." and freezes on the booting What is the problem? I tried OS; Armbian_5.59_Orangepipc_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.65 Armbian_19.11.3_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.3.9 Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.4.20 Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepipc_bionic_current_5.4.20 and https://ch1p.io/armbian-fde/

Hi, After building a DEV Pine64 image successfully, I wanted to build a Dev BananaPI image to update 2 banana pis. Unfortunately I have this error (using this commit id : e7aeffb1) : Setting up nplan (0.36.3) ... Setting up networkd-dispatcher (1.7-0ubuntu3.3) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/default/networkd-dispatcher ... Setting up gnupg (2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.5) ... [ o.k. ] Installing packages for [ Armbian ] Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... E: Unable to locate package…

Hello, While trying to build full Devian Jessy image for NanoPi Neo at stock x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04 using latest https://github.com/igorpecovnik/libgit , got this: ... [ o.k. ] Compiling default kernel [ 3.4.113 ] [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 5.4.0 ] [ o.k. ] Using kernel config file [ lib/config/kernel/linux-sun8i-default.config ] HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig drivers/net/wireless/b…

Does anyone else have to run testdisk regularly after writing Armbian images to SD cards? It may simply be that I've cycles through the 3 or 4 cards that I have here so many times now that they are all on their way out, but it certainly happens on more than 1 card. I've just tried the latest Git version and it's happens with both debootstrap and debootstrap-ng. I used dd in an ubuntu VM to write the SD cards using a USB SD card reader. Workflow: Build Armbian use dd to write image file to SD card Try SD card in *pi board, it fails with unsupported file system error EDIT: the actual error is "Failed to mount Ext2 filesystem" Insert SD card into USB reader a…

I'm running an armbian build under docker (Host = Linux Mint or Ubuntu Bionic). I ran git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build The problem is, in my customize-image.sh script I'm trying to build something that needs to have a package installed before. My lib.config looks like this: #DEBIAN_MIRROR='ftp.at.debian.org/debian/' #DEBOOTSTRAP_LIST="$DEBOOTSTRAP_LIST,apt-transport-https,ca-certificates" display_alert "Adding additional packages" "PHP 7, Redis, udisk2, dnsmasq, python3, ..." "info" PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL="$PACKAGE_LIST_ADDITIONAL php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-curl php7.0-intl php7.0-redis php7.0-mbstring" PACKAGE_…

Today I did compile for some SBCs the kernel 5.9.1 dev but had something strange - for me - When I did compile for sunxi I also did get a .deb for sunxi64 and a new sunxi when I did compile for a sunxi64 board. AND as last I did compile for the Odroid C2 (meson64) and I also did get the sunxi and sunxi64 .deb-packages. Is this normal or a new bug? Because in the past I did only get a new .deb-package for the platform which I did actually compile for.

Should I just build it or we do some more fixes?

I am building a full image for the OPiPC. For the most part everything works. I do get one error while running compile.sh The error I see during build is: "W: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'jessie-utils/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I am building on a VMware vm running Linux armbian 4.4.0-96-generic #119-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 12 14:59:54 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I did the clone from the git repository and ran compile.sh as root. …

There's been discussion in the past of switching to a YY.MM naming convention for releases (similar to Ubuntu) [citation needed -- I think it may be buried deep inside a github discussion] How does that impact us as a rolling release? What do we want to convey with our versions/releases? Should we do monthly releases? quarterly? I do think time-based releases would help us with priority.

Hello, I've got a problem with DNS resolving and customize-image.sh. One setup works (home), one setup does not (office). Both setups are OS X (different major versions), Virtual Box (different major versions), Network Bridging and Ubuntu 14.04. Building images (Banana Pi M1/M2/R1 jessie next) without customize-image.sh works perfectly, espacially the apt-get stuff, which needs DNS resolving. The working home setup uses dynamic (DHCP) private RFC1918 IPs (and/or public IPv6 IPs). The nonworking office setup uses public static IPv4 IPs for OS X and Ubuntu. The build process works flawlessly until customize-image.sh is executed. Some excerpts of cust…

Hello I recently updated the kernel of Jessie on the Od-C2: # uname -a Linux odroidc2 3.14.65-odroidc2 #33 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 26 14:50:37 CET 2016 aarch64 GNU/Linux Consequently, with this new environment, the wifi connection fails: # iw wlan0 scan nl80211 not found. when started mannually, the wpa_supplicant starts +/-: # wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -O /var/run/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant But: # ifup wlan0 wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1 Failed to bring up wlan0. # iwconfig returns: eth0 no wireless exte…

Hello. I have some problem, building image from source. I try to build legacy kernel, full image, CLI, for Orange Pi PC and Orange Pi One (the two i have), but it always stops at "LD kernel/built-in.o", with the following error: [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:177 ] on both platforms. I try Ubuntu Xenial and Debian Jessie, same error at the same place, so i don't think it's OS related. I delete the source and git clone again, but this not helped. I also try to build the same image (5.14_Ubuntu_xenial_3.4.112, CLI) for my A20 Lamobo R1 and it builds with no errors. So there must be something with H3 only. As far as i see, line 176 and 177 of…

I'm trying to create a full OS image with configured kernel but the process fails: E: Failed getting release file http://localhost:3142/httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release How can I fix it?

Hey, I'd like to build an image closer to mainline Debian (normal MOTD, wicd instead of network manager) with a few extra packages (nginx, mariadb, ...) and openbox for the DE targeted at an OrangePi Plus 2E, any suggestions or guidance on how to edit the build scripts to create something like this? Currently doing this all with Ansible after copying it to eMMC, but I figure it'd be a big time savings to prebuild an image with the right DE and software on a more powerful box.

I have machines available at work, but I loose quite a big amount of time fighting with proxy issues. I also have VM available with proxy almost correctly configured (some protocols/ports don't work, like for adding gpg key), but the disks aren't big enough. At home, I have network without any proxy, but it's not that good... So, I was wondering if I could try and build Armbian on the cloud... for free. I tried several websites like google cloud and other services offering Docker, but I haven't found any with enough disk space. Is anyone of you building in the cloud? Thanks.

Hello, with an old image "Armbian_5.10_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_4.5.2_nfsboot.raw" I could stop the boot process and use the u-boot dhcp command and the Pi gets propper values from my DHCP Server. U-Boot SPL 2016.01-armbian (Apr 28 2016 - 10:35:52) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC U-Boot 2016.01-armbian (Apr 28 2016 - 10:35:52 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A31s (SUN6I) DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment HDMI connected: Setting up a 1920x1080 hdmi console (overscan 0x0) In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: eth0: ethernet@01c30000 starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0…

I an new in building ARMBIAN. I have native: ' Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial with a nfs-mounted share on my NAS as working directory. [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-dev-bananapim2ultra_5.27_armhf.deb ] dpkg-deb: Fehler: Control-Verzeichnis hat falsche Zugriffsrechte 770 (muss >=0755 und <=0775 sein) -> Sorry, I have German settings in my linux: I translate it corresponding: Error: Control-Directory has wrong access rights 770 (must be >=755 and <= 775) [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ common.sh:156 ]…

I'm trying to build an image that includes armbian-firmware-full by specifying it in lib.config but it fails, I believe it is due to armbian-firmware being installed by default. What is the proper way to build an image with armbian-firmware-full instead of armbian-firmware?

Hello, I am trying to build a custom Armbian image and I would like to remove some deb packages in order to not to be installed. ¿What would be the right place to do that? Thank you!!

FYI quick update kernel 4.4.24 gr@bpi:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.4.4-sunxi (root@server1404) (gcc version 5.1.1 20150608 (Linaro GCC 5.1-2015.08) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 13:55:59 CET 2016 download deb here I have moved to 4.4.4 Xcompiled with linaro 4.9.2 5.1.1 => Armbian tool on Ubuntu 14.04.34 guest with gcc 5.3 full-crypto + A20 hardware (P)RNG + CPU @1GHz NOTE: [standard sunxi-next] nice, the linux-trusty*.deb package is built with kernel only compile (thanks) config http://pastebin.com/V4p7B9bK NOTE : [standard sunxi-next] nice to have NEON as module I prefer CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y testing…

Hello, I am not very experienced on the Armbian development and want to add a kernel driver to the legacy kernel using the compile.sh development tool, but did not grasp the best practice to add the kernel source reading some forum posts and docs. As a start lets add the sunxi-can driver for the Olimex CAN-A20 interface for legacy kernel for Olimex lime2 A20 board like described in the Wiki at Olimex: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-CAN I did: a) http://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparationon an virtual box on my machine and can successfully build kernel packages and apply user-patches enable some patches like the copy /patch…

Hello guys, is it possible to build custom source code in customize-image.sh ? Seems like /tmp/overlay is read-only, can I use another location to git clone my source code, make and install in target file system ? My idea is to build & deploy sources using native gcc compiler. Thanks

I hope you can understand my question just from the title but here's more information in case you need it. BACKGROUND ON MY END GOAL IN CASE YOU HAVE ADVICE: I'm attempting to create a hardened linux image for running on my nanoPC-t4. I gotta give you guys props because Armbian appears to be wayyyyy ahead of the alternative distributions I checked out (gentoo/arch/lubuntu) in terms of support/customizability/documentation for ARM development. As a first step, I'm trying to build & boot a hardened Linux kernel. After some googling, I settled on this repo as my best option for free & open-source hardened kernel sources (unless anyone has a better suggestion)…

Today i wanted to try some changes an build a new kernel for my H3 PCPlus. When I executed compile.sh i got a Message that the script was outdated. So i copied a newer Version from lib to my root directory. I made thechanges i did before: Set KERNEL_Configure to "yes" and set DEST_LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" (that was the only way to get a clean translated german Desktop before..) Now I get a warning Message: [ warn ] Can't update since you made changes to: compile.sh When I hit Enter the next thing happens: The Toolchan is downloaded every time. Is this really necessary? I have only a volume based Internet connection... Regards

In my customize-image.sh I need to dowload source via git and make it like user and not like root. Example of customize-image.sh: git clone https://github.com/xxx/xxx /home/pi/xxx su -c "sudo -S /home/pi/xxx/xxx.sh" - pi This work when I build image for OrangePi4 (and all other rk3399 board) It dosen't work when build image for sun8i board like OrangePi Lite. Both git and su command return error and compilation fail. This happen with legacy and mainline kernel, with ubuntu or debian.

hey there, compilation noob here. I want to build my own image via vagrant and set it up already, because Armbian is the only OS* which provides an integrated option for an encrypted rootfs (preferrably on another drive than the sd-card, because of performance) without manually fiddling around. See: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/947 My plan is to build it with the optional config, as written in post 2 of the link above: CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="MYSECRECTPASS" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_PORT=2222 But I don't know where to put the optional build options and it's not clear to…

I have a test set of configuration files to build for armbian TV box platform Amlogic S905. Is anyone interested ? Should I create the pull merge GIT lib ?

Trying to setup a build environment using vagrant, keep getting the following error. I've deleted everything and started over several times but keep getting stuck here. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:/vagrant$ sudo ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ /vagrant/userpatches/config-example.conf ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers [ .... ] downloading using torrent network [ gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz ] [ error ] ERROR in function download_and_verify [ general.sh:…

hello! I'm trying to build a kernel and I think it did. but the script shows the error: CC [M] kernel/kheaders.o [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:411 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated root@valik-comp:~/armbian-build# and no errors in the text above. (full logs in attachments). please tell me what to do ..? fulllog.txt.gz

Hi, I used armbian build many times to create my custom orangepipcplus images without any problem until now. It was working perfect. But, it started to fail today and couldn't build the image. To prevent any mistake, I created a new Oracle VirtualBox VM by using Bionic minimal iso and follow the steps on https://github.com/armbian/build but still no luck. It still gives same error and fails. I try to build by options "Full OS image for flashing", "Do not change the kernel configuration", "next Mainline (@kernel.org), "xenial Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS", "Image with consol interface (server)", "Standard image with console interface" for orangepipcplus and withou…

Hi, I am adding support of my board to armbian framework and I have several questions: 1. I added my u-boot & kernel but when I build package for kernel, it creates linux-image-4.14.98-sabre_5.94_armhf.deb instead of linux-image-sabre_5.94_armhf.deb so I have to remove version from from file name in compilation.sh or image creation process would fail. Is it possible to define name of .deb package? I guess I just missed something in my kernel config file. 2. u-boot & linux-image packages are installed successful but I have to add default links to kernel & device tree files by hands or update u-boot scripts by hand. Is it p…

Hello. Now, build environment is only Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic). But some time ago, the build environment was Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial). How can I build armbian on Xenial? Maybe, I have to change branch to another, or checkout to certain commit? Help me please...

Hello, I have got an Orange Pi PC2 but there is no fully working operationg system for it. If someone could make a working build for then that thing will live a long time as an efficient PC. THX

Hi, I have received an upgrade notification. While applying changes, I received this message for 1 package (out of 5). (Reading database ... 73767 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../armbian-tools-xenial_5.20_armhf.deb ... Unpacking armbian-tools-xenial (5.20) over (5.14) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-tools-xenial_5.20_armhf.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/brcm40183-patch', which is also in package linux-xenial-root-orangepilite 5.16 Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu8) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Errors were encountered while processing: …

For now - armbian is best OS for Orange Pi Plus 2. I try connect touchscreen Waveshare 5" LCD Ver.2 trough GPIO but no success:( If it possible, please, add driver for ADS7843 Touchscreen in next patch. Sorry, cant do it himself:(

How can I debug kernel source code in armbian build system very simply? Each build will need to download source code from the git hub , if add a line of source code，also need patch again, but the process need very super time, what is the simple method?

I'm a newb, so please make allowances if I am a little dumb. I have SPI NOR boot working on an Orange Pi Zero Plus (H5). Latest next kernel. (I've tried the download, and compiled my own). There is a problem when I power on. It fails to detect the USB drive. If I reset the CPU it finds the drive. If I reboot it finds the drive. resetting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found I want to try some things in the boot environment settings, but I haven't figured out where to do this. Can anyone point me in the right direct…

Hey, I'm trying to lock kernel version to 4.11. The documentation is talking about the variable ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION, which does not do anything, as the script does not take it into account and still clone the last version of kernel (4.13) I cheat and copy KERNELBRANCH='branch:linux-4.11.y' instead in userpatches/lib.config which seems to do the job. What is wrong then ? Documentation or me ? Thanks Florian

What script is used in Armbian to build ram init image uInitrd?

I try to build a customized image as described in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-image-customization-script and by using the template with the OpenMediaVault example https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/templates/customize-image.sh.template The goal is to build an image who auto-execute an initial setup script after being flashed and frist boot. The device has connected RGB-Leds and an OLED I2c Display on the GPIO pins. It should give color signals durring this initial setup, and then show system parameters (especially the DHCP-Address) on the oled screen *without* having a keyboard and HDMI-Display c…

I'm trying to build a kernel driver for 5.7.14 for my custom image but couldn't find a linux-source package for the kernel version at https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/apt/pool/main/l/ I tried to use armbian-config but it didn't show it, either (5.4.44 was listed instead). Where can I get 5.7.14 source code? I checked out Armbian Build v20.05( https://github.com/armbian/build/releases/tag/v20.05 )and created an image with the following options: BOARD=tinkerboard RELEASE=buster BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no INSTALL_HEADERS=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=yes The system information is as follows (on Tinker Board): root@tinker…

Since this is a different issue I split this topic into a separate one to take care of or check at least somewhen. ------------------------------------------ Oh well. There IS something wrong but not with the toolchain download... rock64 focal current desktop HOSTLD tools/mkimage tools/Makefile:134: recipe for target 'tools/_libfdt.so' failed Makefile:1278: recipe for target 'tools' failed [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ compilation.sh:220 ] [ error ] U-boot compilation failed [ o.k. ] Process terminated #compilation log: tools/libfdt_wrap.c:149:11: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory # include &lt…

In recent weeks, I have been testing a new approach to using the source code for external WiFi modules (RTL). Previously, I regularly got build environment crash issues due to unpredictable source updates for EXTRAWIFI. These sources are scattered in different places and absolutely do not predictably change, breaking the kernel build. I'm tired of tracking such situations and regularly spending time creating emergency patches to restore the build process (or having to temporarily disable the EXTRAWIFI build). I compiled and placed all the sources in one controlled GIT. I still have them my GIT, but if your decide to switch to a new version of the build, it is advisable t…

I had try build a new kernel with tft screen , module ssd1322, find source , and build patch file, just like attach file <spender-ssd1322.patch>, and put it to patch : build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next, . then do "compile.sh", view patching.log, and compilation.log, compiler.log, no error! , directory build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/linux-4.19.y/drivers/staging/fbtft , no fb_ssd1322.o, .mod.c, .ko file output. build failed! help me , how to do spender-ssd1322.patch

A little bit OT, but what is the recommended way to sort a dts file? I commonly see patches, where maintainers keep requesting for nodes in a dts file to be sorted alphabetically, but didn't find any way to achieve this? I tired a simple `dtc -I dts -O dts -s xxx.dts` but the output contains symbols that I don't really need.

Hello all, maybe I missed that part in the docs or in another thread... In fact, I haven't found a solution. I'd like to include a custom kernel repository in the build process (maybe in kernel-only mode) and select that in the interface if available. Either include a remote directory (github...) or some local directory. That all for easily trying things out without using the single-patches directory but using the armbian building environment. I couldn't find the lines in the build scripts, where I easily can "hardcode" such a kernel tree. Ultimate way would be an additional option for a custom kernel tree, chooseable via the menu. Can someone point me into …

A thought occurred to me while watching my machine sync a bunch of repos while running the Armbian build script, and I couldn't help wondering: Could we put the board support patches into their own repo separate from the build scripts themselves? More specifically: board support for "Boards of Interest" to the Armbian maintainers would be in whatever "official" repos we dedicate, I recommend separating per board family or SoC board support for CSC goes into, predictably, a CSC repo board support for EOL boards can be spun off into their own repo TV boxes go into a TV box repo Advantages: Supporting every pet …

A week ago Armbian was kernel 4.9.0, and Ethernet on NanoPi Neo worked after compile image. But now kernel is 4.9.4 and Ethernet not works (no interface eth0, ifconfig -a not shows eth0, only Loopback). There was also renewed Armbian framework. How do I get to work Etnernet on NanoPi Neo after last change Armbian framework and Kernel?

4.17.y is, even not LTS, but probably better than heavily patched 4.14.y in any way. Shall we do this switch now and start preparing 4.18.y on a DEV?

How to use this variable ? Tried to set different options, but when compiling the kernel aarch64, always use the system version 4.8. Set both variables in the config file, the variable UBOOT_TOOLCHAIN is triggered (begins to use the written version), and this variable does not change either as the compiler. This is my local problem not correct the system configuration or the same situation with the others ? For now I solve this problem rough hack - point in the variable PATCH user, the first desired directory with the compiler. Another associated question in the script general.sh in lines 471-474, with a list of packages for the host system specified compilers, including …

Subtitle: Or I've screwed (Which is more than likely ;-) I'm trying to add some custom apt sources via customize_image.sh. They appear to be being added, but they are then deleted again. #!/bin/bash # arguments: $RELEASE $FAMILY $BOARD $BUILD_DESKTOP # # This is the image customization script # # NOTE: It is copied to /tmp directory inside the image # and executed there inside chroot environment # so don't reference any files that are not already installed RELEASE=$1 FAMILY=$2 BOARD=$3 BUILD_DESKTOP=$4 # add TV Headend echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb jessie release" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimo.list wget apt.nimo.co.uk/conf/tvheadend.key c…

This might be more targeted towards security, but building Armbian should not be as a root/privileged user... https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#how-to-start OpenWRT builds fine as a normal user account, does not need elevated access. Also - FWIW - the local build directory should be armbian, not build - too many other things use /build. @Igor-- thoughts here?

I'm attempting to build an image for the ROC-RK3328-CC (Renegade) with cryptroot encryption (and SSH unlock) enabled, but I run into weird behavior. The board will start and I can SSH in and reach the BusyBox prompt. So far so good but from what I've gathered I should enter the command "unlock" there to display the cryptroot password prompt. However it only results in the message -sh: unlock: not found. I read somewhere else the command might be "cryptroot-unlock" but that instead gives nothing, not even the error message. Furthermore, regardless whether I enter any commands, around 10 seconds into the SSH session it will freeze and I eventually ge…

Hello, I am new to armbian and it building environment. I had to start from ground and stumbled across some unclear / wrong point in the documentation. [EDIT: I already managed to build an running image. This Thread is about the documentation] So i just want to point them out, not to harm anybody, just to tell what happened to me. Perhaps all of it is just because i didn't followed the documentation correctly. If that's the case i like to apologize for disturbing. 1. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/#virtualbox-version suggestst to do: > vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize …

Hello guys I need instructions on how to skip mandatory steps during first load when Armbian requires to login as root and use password 1234. What I need is to have pi account created automatically during sd-image build (with a custom password) and assigned a predefined set of groups. I want Armbian start and auto-login with pi account and run my linuxfb-based full-screen application. It seems like customize-image.sh is the right place to create a new account on target image. But how can I disable that startup poll to create a new user, change password, etc? Thanks

I want to build kernel applied with rt-patch. Latest rt-patch version is for 4.9.13. So, How can I get the result? I think I should edit configuration.sh and then, put the patch file to userpatches/kernel directory? I need a kernel for nanopi-neo.

Today I did build the image for stretch (for M2 Ultra) - but it was a bit strange - because it ended up in a 1.1GB .image file, but the compressed size was only 1.5MB OK, before building the image I got only 6GB free on my virtual HDD - by the last images this did work.... Now I will reinstall my build-system with the double size (60GB against 30GB before) and then I will firstly try to create a xenial image (not stretch which give me the compressed 1.50MB image whcih doesnt boot )

Armbian CI is building v5.10.43 while my local build is making v5.10.45. How can I switch? I've tried all sorts of iterations of KERNELRELEASE= BRANCH= and LIB_TAG= in userpatches/config-example.conf but can't find the right combination to build a v5.10.43 kernel with RELEASE=focal What's the correct build env var and value needed to match Armbian's CI?

I have problem with low space during building orange pi zero image ( even there free space about 50GB on both root and secondary drive ). I happens at the end of image creating when batch customize-image.sh started. Do you know where is variable responsible for 1.5GB big /armbian/output/cache/ ? Thanks.

I'm doing a build inside a Docker container (Ubuntu Xenial 16.04; started with --privileged) and I've tried several builds but all of them fail. The .img file gets created but after copying to the SD card they always fail (unrecognized file system). Here's the output of compile.sh: [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ orangepizero default ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-xenial-root-orangepizero ] [ o.k. ] Starting rootfs and image building process for [ orangepizero xenial ] [ o.k. ] Extracting xenial-ng-armhf.50a...4c9.tgz [ 0 days old ] xenial-ng-armhf.50a...4c9.tgz: 75.6MiB [ 204MiB/s] [=======================================…

Hello, everyone, I found a very serious issue with Armbian build framework: build may corrupt your host's rootfs! This has happened to my system 3 times: my rootfs has been totally destroyed without being able to recover it (I used a number tools, like testdisk, etc. All of the tools detected some deleted files but all of those files appeared to be 0-sized). I have delayed reporting this to be 100% sure that it is Armbian build that caused those issues. Now I am, absolutely, because such a problem NEVER happened to me before (I have been using Ubuntu 16.04 for a long time). After 2nd crash I changed my HDD to a brand new one and installed all again …

Hello Armbian, I am trying to build an image based on release 20.08, but kernel does not get compiled. compile.sh docker BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=current KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no CLEAN_LEVEL="" NO_APT_CACHER=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no RELEASE=buster Displaying message: * [\e[32ml\e[0m][\e[32mc\e[0m] xxx-sun50i-h6-enable-higher-clock.patch info Displaying message: Compressing sources for the linux-source package Displaying message: Compiling current kernel 5.8.16 info Displaying message: Compiler version arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 9.2.1 info Displaying message: Using kernel config file config/kernel/linux-sunxi-current.config in…

Hello, I have seen a patch for emmc/nand with UUID, it looks interesting. Is anything planned sooner or later to use UUID in /etc/fstab in image building process, please? Or is it something to dig in? (I am looking for a solution for Odroid XU4 next to bypass the ANTIC uboot 2012.07) Thanks!

Hi, When I start armbian script, there is no Banana Pi M1 model anymore. Was Banana Pi M1 merged with Banana Pi Pro model? I could not find any note or info about this change anywhere. Thank you!

I saw @zador.blood.stained was doing some housekeeping, so I wanted to open the discussion again about what to do about it in the future. We've obviously demonstrated what you "don't want to do". My last comments on this were as follows: We should have temporary per-kernel branches when undertaking a bigger change. This allows wider testing for those who like to build experimental things Makes the creator of the branch responsible for keeping it up to date gets flattened out and merged into "master" or a "next" waiting for a revision bump PR's should be used on anything anyone is not 100% certain of to g…

Probably the easiest and fastest way to set up an Ubuntu Xenial build environment (needed by the armbian build scripts) is using a chroot jail. This thread should be a quick copy paste "tutorial" to create your own chroot jail and on an Debian based linux installation. 1.) Install debootstrap $ sudo apt install debootstrap 2.) Chreate chroot jail using debootstrap $ sudo debootstrap --variant=buildd --arch=amd64 xenial ./system/ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ 3.) Mount your local system into the chroot $ for f in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do sudo mount -o bind /$f ./system/$f ; done 4.) Mount resolv.conf from host system into…

Good day, What is the best and easiest way to deal with situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-config : Depends: debconf-utils but it is not going to be installed Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed mc : Depends: mc-data (= 3:4.8.18-1) but it is not going to be installed nfs-kernel-server : Depends: libtirpc1 (>= 0.2.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nfs-common (= 1:1.3.4-2.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: keyutils but it is not going to be ins…

I'm getting an error No rule to make target 'tinker-rk3288_defconfig' while typing the command ./compile.sh [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update Already up-to-date. Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ xenial ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ .... ] Downloading [ gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux ] ######################################################################## 100.0% ######################################################################## 100.0% [ .... ] Ve…

I've come into a problem, my build system refuses to build images. I haven't been able to debug it, so I'm curious if anyone else in North America is having this trouble? I have historically had odd name resolution bugs/etc that required some massaging of the scripts' use of URL's, but this seems impervious to my efforts. Reading package lists... W: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com stretch Release' does not have a Release file. E: Failed to fetch http://apt.armbian.com/dists/stretch/stretch-desktop/binary-armhf/Packages 500 Connection failure: Network is unreachable [IP: ::1 3142] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old…

Hi, I made a container based on xenial. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=next KERNEL_ONLY=no RELEASE=stretch [ o.k. ] Using config file [ config-default.conf ] [ o.k. ] This script will try to update remote: Counting objects: 10, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done. remote: Total 10 (delta 4), reused 6 (delta 4), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done. From https://github.com/armbian/build 579e17a..e8906ed development -> origin/development Already up-to-date. Already on 'master' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. [ o.k. ] Command line: setting BOARD to [ orangepizero ] [ o.k. ] Command line: setting BRANCH …

I've just spun up a brand new vagrant installation using the instructions here https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ When I ran compile.sh inside the VM it installed a load of packages as it should, then eventually failed due to dialog not being installed. A simple apt install dialog fixed everything, presumably the build system needs to be updated to install dialog as well?

I would like to know the content of u-boot-s905x-s912 and u-boot-s905x2-s922 at the boot dir. of armbian release . Is there a tool to de-compile these script to plain text ? Sorry if this question had been asked or answered . I didnot find any clues from searching at this forum. Thanks !

Hello, I use the amlogic S905W (TX3mini) When I would like to start my PPP connection my Kernel says missing Module: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory modprobe: FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found in directory /lib/modules/5.5.1-arm-64 pppd: You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 Please check kernel 5.5.1-arm-64 Many Thanks

Hi guys setting variables like MAINLINE_KERNEL_SOURCE in userpatches/lib.config does not change anything in the build. Is this fine ? What is the correct place to update this variable ? Thanks

Hi, ist it possible to select a specific kernel version in the build tool (not only next, dev ...)? I need kernel 4.17. Thanks. Steffen

I've just tried to build my custom image for OPI 2 but got into some trouble with space: Spoiler [ o.k. ] Preparing image file for rootfs [ orangepi2 xenial ] [ o.k. ] Current rootfs size [ 753 MiB ] [ o.k. ] Creating blank image for rootfs [ 872 MiB ] 872MiB [42,5MiB/s] [===========================================================================================================================================>] 100% [ o.k. ] Creating partitions [ root: ext4 ] [ .... ] Creating rootfs [ ext4 ] [ .... ] Copying files to root directory 657.56M 99% 25.52MB/s 0:00:24 (xfr#44298, to-chk=4/56213) rsync: mkstemp "/home/rufik/workspace…

@Igor It seems u-boot compilation fails. Please note that this is the first time I build armbian. Am I missing something? [ o.k. ] Building boot image cp: cannot stat 'build/a3700/debug/flash-image.bin': No such file or directory [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ compilation.sh:174 ] [ error ] U-boot file not found [ flash-image.bin ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated output.log: https://pastebin.com/Zc4sWzBb

I just try 5.7rc1 build of linux kernel for odroid c2 And armbian can't create linux kernel package It looks like some problem in https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/misc/general-packaging-5.6.y.patch

I'm trying to build 4.19 kernel modules for Tinkerboard with Armbian's build script (https://github.com/armbian/build). But when I chose the board 'Tinkerboard' from the Armbian building script CUI menu, the output ko files were all built for 4.4. How can I create 4.19 ko files for Tinkerboard? I tried to put userpatches/lib.config in order to overwrite KERNELBRANCH with tag:v4.19.y but not luck. The error was shown below: [ o.k. ] Using config file [ /vagrant/userpatches/config-example.conf ] [ o.k. ] Preparing [ host ] [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers (snip) gr…

Hello, guys, any plans to support SUBJ ? I need a very simple image, display + network. Thank you

I am doing test builds and I notice some strange behaviour. First boot is very short and it resets, than we got this: (Orangepi PC+ / legacy / jessie CLI) What was changed / break here? Is this related to my build host?

Why armbian put debian.list to ubuntu package list (/etc/apt/sources.list/debian.list)? I am on ubuntu so I don't understand why should I have mix of debian and ubuntu packages

Hello guys, I am trying to build another kernel within your framework. Here is what I did: 1) copied sun8i.conf to userpaches/sources and modified kernel source url and branch 2) copied patches to userpatches/kernel/sun8i-dev and removed those that made compilation fail I was able to compile u-boot and kernel, but in the end I am getting the following issue: dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive '/home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/debs/linux-image-dev-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb': No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Kernel build done [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/de…

If I have understood correctly, usb-redirector is an example of adding a custom application to an Armbian build? Is there a slightly simpler 'hello world' example? I typically use Buildroot to assemble an OS and RFS - is there anything similar to the BR package system in Armbian if I have misunderstood the above? TAIA.

Hello. I want to add some changes in mcp251x.c and rebuild it. I've installed linux-headers via armbian-config. During build process i got this error: /m_mcp251x.c:1042:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘devm_clk_get_optional’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] clk = devm_clk_get_optional(&spi->dev, NULL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ if i comment this line it passes compile process but when i do insmod i get these kernel debug messages: [ 583.741089] m_mcp251x: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 583.741626] m_mcp251x: Unknown symbol can_free_echo_skb (err -2) [ 583.741673] m_mcp251x: Unknown …

Hello. Maybe this is discussed already, but i can't find anything with the search. I have some modifications in kernel and other things and i have my own build image of Debian Jessie and deb-s with this modifications. Version 4.84 of legacy 3.4.110 kernel. The most important for me is contiguous memory allocator - CMA, which solved my problem mentioned here - http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/559-lamobo-r1-hardware-accelerated-driver/ , other things i can do under working system later, but i add them in image for ease. The problem is, after latest upgrade every modification is gone, of course. I made a new deb-s, version 5.0 with CMA enabled and apply them, but wh…

Hi hi @Igor I have written in my tree a markdown file in build rootdir (wondering about a /doc directory?) guiding how to build a kernel using RHEL / CentOS containers. URL: https://github.com/rfrht/build/blob/testdoc1/build-docker-rhel.md Wondering if would you be interested to merge it into your tree. Let me know! - RF.

Happy new year and thanks for the good work ! I see there is a (buster) image available for my Odroid N2 with kernel 5.4. A few weeks ago I set up the build environment and started building my own images. First images were build using the 4.9 kernel from Hardkernel. Later the images were build with kernel 5.1 (and BRANCH=default). However, the image with kernel 5.4 was not build today but the kernel 5.1 is still used for the image, although I changed the BRANCH=default (as it was before) to BRANCH=dev. How can I create a new armbian image with kernel 5.4 ? I read some posts about a new u-boot. Is this new u-boot…

I have several applications running on different boards. After reading documents/forum posts and checking the code here and there, I came to the following setup and I'll be very pleased if someone confirms it. Application A1, A2,..An Board B1, B2,...Bn 1) Create multiple compile_Ax_By.sh, containing: #!/bin/bash # Define my application MYAPP=A1 # Call ./compile.sh with predefined parameters ./compile.sh BOARD="orangepipcplus" BRANCH="current" RELEASE="focal" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" 2) In userpatches/customize-image.sh add a single line to my custom my-custom-image.sh (in case original got…

I'm new to building the toolchain so sorry if I missed something basic. I installed Virtualbox greater than the version noted on the instructions page. (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/) Used the mini image at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso per above page. During the install I did not check any options for system software. Started the os and installed git using sudo per the instructions page in the second line above. After it completed I changed to the build directory and issued the compile sudo ./compile.sh and seems to run as expected. I…

Hi, I just made a brand new VM to build armbian this morning so after installing Bionic / checking out the sources, I started `compile.sh` for the first time and I got theses warning / errors (15 minutes ago) : E: Version '1.2.0' for 'aptly' was not found [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ .... ] Downloading [ gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux ] -=O=- # # # # curl: (7) Failed to connect to dl.armbian.com port 443: Connection refused curl: (7) Failed to connect to dl.armbian.com port 443: Connection refused [ .... ] Verifying grep: gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.…

Is there a way, without having to fork the armbian/build repos, to modify the first run service? I would like to add some stuff. It would be awesome if there is a way to provide an extra script that is run after the end of the armbian-first-run service. Maybe an additional parameter in armbian_first_run.txt that can provide the path to a script that gets run? Or is there a way I am overlooking that can achieve this already?

please, is it useful if I would test MBR/PARTUUID for XU4 (as Zador is thinking of)? (instead of the former LABEL testing I did for SD/eMMC for next) in case I am on the proper path as of http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2454-fel-mass-storage-or-writing-images-directly-to-emmc/?p=18115

(Please feel free to move the post if it is not appropriate here.) I'm trying the build environment on VirtualBox and modifying settings and adding new scripting. I have had a habit of testing each modification right away, but the compile/burn/on-device-test is not logical. How can I emulate a device / setup / install process? Is there any way?

Hi, I bought this relatively new WiFi card from sinovoip based on the MT7615. http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-mt7615-802-11-ac-wifi-4x4-dual-band-pcie-module-mass-production-version/10037 The kernel drivers for this are already in mainline linux (starting from 5.3 I think). I'm trying to use it on the clearfogpro though, which only runs up to kernel 4.19 right now (tried compiling 5.3 but it fails). So I wanted to backport the driver to 4.19. Unfortunately multiple things changed and trying to get the driver to compile broke lots of other stuff. So I came around to backports https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page their documentat…

Hi, I'm trying to iterate quickly to test out some ideas on the mmc driver, so I was wondering if it is possible to prevent re-downloading the sources every time. It looked like IGNORE_UPDATES=yes might be what I want, but when I tried that I got a failure during compile_atf: [ o.k. ] Installing [ rkbin-tools ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning output/debs for [ pinebook-a64 default ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning [ o.k. ] Compiling ATF [ o.k. ] Compiler version [ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc 6.4.1 ] [ o.k. ] Started patching process for [ atf pine64-pinebook-a64-default ] [ o.k. ] Looking for user patches in [ userpatches/atf/atf-pine64 ] make: *** No rule to make target 'bl31'. Stop. [ error ] ERR…

I've been working on the rtl8189fs patches for Mainline. Althouth the source code change between Legacy and Mainline is pretty trivial, preparing good and nice patches becomes a tedious task : - First, the original patch in Legacy contains tons of DOS file formatted (strange for a Linux driver, shame on Realtek) and even dos2unix failed on some files because of binaries character (probably Chinese), I had to edit many files because I wouldn't "signed-off" such ugly thing. (btw, maybe that dos2unix job should be done one Legacy to make it cleaner) - It is a quick big patch, but about the same size as the one in Legacy, about 10MB of text file. - Even after …