Armbian build framework

It's been a while since I ran my VBox installed build system. apt-update gives the following error - Err:3 http://repo.aptly.info nightly InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ED75B5A4483DA07C but continues. Is there something I should do or ignore? I started from scratch and pulled the directory and ./compile'd again and everything seemed to go fine, produced output which I will test today.

This topic is a response to the growing number of kernels, growing number of boards with... "unique properties", and for the increased complexity of some platofrms (aarch64 and the atf, etc). I think the coherency of the chosen organizational method is starting to fall apart. So just a thought experiment on my part: Currently, we have a sources directory, and the sources file has not just sources, but also executable script functions in it. We also do our patches per SoC, mostly, but the organization is by the thing being compiled rather than by the target, making finding/adjusting a bit cumbersome in some cases. I would propose a di…

I did a patch to allow armbian build system produce image with root on xfs filesystem. Kernel should have build-in filesystem support, and `RELEASE` have to contain required filesystem utilities. Then all need to be done — add filesystem to build process. Patch for builder attached. Then image have to be build with separate /boot filesystem. command should look like ./compile.sh BOARD=rockpi-4a BRANCH=current RELEASE=focal BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes BOOTSIZE=250 ROOTFS_TYPE=xfs Spoiler diff --git a/lib/configuration.sh b/lib/configuration.sh index b825ca4b..2a65e075 100644 --- a/lib/con…

Hi, i try to build my own UserPatch for orangepizero. Sometimes i use my own Workaround with Editing Build-Files (old Builder). Please explain me replacing "patch/kernel/sun8i-default/02-0011-fbtft_for_older.patch" with FB-TFT Original Sources. (More Devices) Thanks

Hello there Maintainers! o/ I have found something while builiding my image and would like to ask for your opinion on that :-) I have built a Docker build environment where things are going real smooth (After some tinkering ;-) In order to save everyone's bandwidth (and be able to do builds while offline), I was tinkering with IGNORE_UPDATES=yes FORCE_CHECKOUT=no compile option. Well. That causes the build to fail, because after the first compile and its patch, a second round with these flags will cause the patch to be applied again and potentially breaking stuffs. I'm circumventing it by moving the p…

@Igor Could we imagine another mechanism than to use git as an "upload front-end" ? Using git as some kind of spool folder is really not ideal. For instance if I clone today the armbian upload git project the size of the objects is already reaching 1.2 GB for a project that is essentially just a structure of empty folders. I even see the following error during cloning Cloning into 'upload'... remote: Enumerating objects: 75, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (75/75), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (61/61), done. kex protocol error: type 7 seq 49316022.52 MiB | 6.67 MiB/s remote: Total 844 (delta 33), reused 40 (delta 14), pack-reuse…

Hi all, here's a newbie question: -How to change root-file-system? Eg. for ex. change settings in a file /etc/network/interfaces, when building the whole image. I tried to use the build/userpatches/overlay folder and add changed files there, but didn't work... I'm probably missing something. br. Mike

1. What is the purpose when compilation errors are sent to a common output and then branched to a file? It turns out a million lines. It is reasonable to have only compiler error messages. 2. What is the purpose when the kernel-source package is built with include the folder /.git/? It is not traditional 3. Why folder with sources not cleared fully before compilation? git commands: git reset --hard HEAD; git clean -df guarantee a clean sheet before starting work

Hi guys, Is it possible to include the hfsplus module (used for mounting Mac HFS+ filesystems) in the kernel please? I have to manually build kernels in order to get this feature which is time consuming.

Hi there, i try to compile a kernel via: apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh In compile.sh, i changed: KERNEL_ONLY="yes" and added KERNELTAG="v4.3.5" I get an error which can be seen in the attached file. I was able to compile 4.3.4 on the same machine, so i do not expect enironment issues. Any hint? Thx, A.

Hi, my name is Tom and i am an embedded developer. I am aiming to dig into the CSI0 camera interface for the bananapi. Admittedly, i am new to the linux way of coding and compilation. Thus far for armbian, i realized,... ....compilation by script "compile.sh"...which checks all needed tools, code, updates...downloads everything...runs a config screen to select target, platform, ...and yeah..it works. When i run the script two times ...it keeps compiling again. hmm+ My experience is, that i do have the sourcecode, a compiler script/makefile....and it will just update the changes i did on the source. (old scool:-) so if i have the source in a direc…

Hello, guys, is this possible to choose a custom board-specific kernel config located in "userpatches" based on $BOARD variable? I am trying to customize different boards and I have no idea how to provide a specific config for, let's say, sun6i bananapi and sun8i orangepipc when I build "next" kernel, because all of them are covered by linux-sunxi-next.config. It seems like I need to change your scripts but I wouldn't like to.. Thanks.

It seems to me like we currently have at least 2-3 separate initiatives going on which are in some way at least touching upon the very heart of the project (the build system). I wanted to bring attention to them and begin a high level strategic discussion of what the best way forward might be. I expect this will take some significant time for everyone to really have a chance to weigh in and (ideally) eventually to come to some sort of consensus. I will confess that I don't even really understand the build system myself. In fact I think only a few people really do. So as a side effect I hope to increase my own understanding. And eventually improve document…

I am trying to build an updated image for an orange pi zero using the mainline buster headless. I tried on an ubuntu 20.04 VM (on a fedora host) and on a natively ubuntu20.04 installed laptop. Both fail to compile the kernel with the same error. Below is my compile config file and my compilation.log is attached. Any ideas what is going wrong here? I know I don't have the make terget in CLEAN_LEVEL, but I even tried when completely removing the whole armbian-build folder and cloning a fresh repos and removing all apt-cache-ng cache. So it's not due to that. # Read build script documentation https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ # for detai…

Hello all, I recently went through the exercise of getting the Armbian build system set up to create an image with some of my user customizations, similar to the example with OMV. The documentation and forums have been a huge help! As I am running Fedora and Windows as my main OSes, I did struggle a bit at first. I tried, in order: Ignoring the advice of the documentation, and running ./compile.sh on Fedora. Didn't get far Running the build with Docker on Fedora. I ran into a number of different problems and ultimately gave up. Running on Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2. I did eventually get a build to complete, but the image may h…

I have pushed some changes for XU4 with the help of so many internet sources (thanks!) - uboot 2016.05 - vanilla kernel (4.7.6 as of now) - single partition (using the LABEL=rootfs for booting) - SD & eMMC for eMMC, burn the image on both a SD card & eMMC first, boot with SD card to write files on mmcblk0boot0 partition, then cd /usr/lib/linux-u-boot-next-odroidxu4_5.21-GRO_armhf (probably remove -GRO) -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15616 oct. 1 01:58 bl1.bin.hardkernel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14592 oct. 1 01:58 bl2.bin.hardkernel.1mb_uboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1807 oct. 1 01:58 sd_fusing.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 oct. 1 01:58 tzsw.bin.hard…

Documentation is a little thin here. Does anyone have a working example of how to get a file (or files) properly copied into the destination image? Specifically I'm trying to get a binary copied into /sbin on the target. TAIA

I have read carefully documentation : https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ But I can't succeed building with this file modified : ./sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/drivers/media/rc/sunxi-cir.c Before compiling I have this : [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /root/crosscompile/sources/u-boot/v2017.03 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ] I paste the file, but I have : [ warn ] No changes found, skipping patch creation Where I must copy paste my "sunxi-cir.c" file ? How do I do it

Hello, while reading the build tools scripts I found this part of the license text to be fishy: # This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public # License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any # warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. I think the intent was to say "whether expressed or implied". Can I get confirmation, so I can prepare a PR for changing all the (cut'n'pasted) occurrences ?

I came across this blog post which had a fantastic breakdown of the workflow for building a kernel with the armbian build tools. Just wanted to share.

Based on discussions the last days/weeks it seems obvious to me that we should document default Armbian security so that people know what they get and where to tweak if they have specific concerns. I took a few minutes to start with a list of issues that should IMO be addressed (no specific order): Explain where password strength policies originate Restore distro default sshd settings if concerned: sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin yes/PermitRootLogin without-password/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config Use and purpose of haveged: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/503 'Secure delete' on SD card, eMMC or SSD (overwriting contents on the FS layer requires a sync call if followed …

Hi I want to build armbian for nanopi neo with a different mainline. What I have done is 1. added lib.config file in userpatches with statement ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.9' that didn't work, I still get a 4.10.1 kernel build 2. then changed configration.sh ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.9' that didn't work either, I got 4.10.1 kernel build Any other tricks? -jerry

I need customization in configuration file for: a) DISTROS=("jessie" "xenial" "stretch" "bionic") b) ${SCRIPTPATH}config/armbian.key I want to make patch for it, but I need a few decisions: 1. Should I use lib.config as the configuration source? Maybe we prefer a separate file? 2. Can I unify RELEASE_LIST=("xenial" "jessie" "stretch" "bionic") from build-all and DISTROS=("jessie" "xenial" "stretch" "bionic") from repository.sh into one common parameter? 3. Do we accept the name for the parameter: GPG_PUBLIC_KEY=config/armbian.key?

I've noticed that in order to be able to build offline, I need not only to specify OFFLINE_WORK=yes as per this documentation: OFFLINE_WORK ( yes | no ): skip downloading and updating sources as well as time and host check. Set to “yes” and you can collect packages without accessing the internet but also IGNORE_UPDATES=yes. Probably because of this is main.sh: # ignore updates help on building all images - for internal purposes if [[ $IGNORE_UPDATES != yes ]]; then display_alert "Downloading sources" "" "info" I don't see here in main.sh where is is checking for build-all..... so it seems that unless i specif…

Using customize-image.sh work nice with debian but not executed when build Ubuntu. Log report [O.K.] Calling image customization script [customize-image.sh] but after that no output from my script and no change on image

Hello Armbian, Since long time ago, build system is stuck at mainline kernel version 5.10.21 (for OrangePi H2+ H3 and H5 boards). Am I doing something wrong or what? Best regards.

Yes, sure. Go ahead ... BTW: can you try to compile U-boot for Armada ... it's failing for me on two different machines and it's suppose to work.

Hello everybody, I'm trying to build a full bootable image for the Rock pi 4B using a VM with the recommended build system I followed the build instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. I got the image built without errors. At this point I haven't tried the image because I still want to change a source file and recompile. I changed the file in question: build/cache/sources/linux-mainline/linux-5.10.y/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c and rerun compile.sh in the build directory. The system builds again without issues, but the file I edited get replaced by the original content along the way.…

I run Armbian inside VMware VM. As I understand the compile.sh script will not auto-update Armbian. What is the right procedure to update Armbian in this case? Just run git pull from $SRC? Could compile.sh script accomodate this scenario?

Hi, I tested to build some deb package yesterday on my Nanopi M1 and it went surprisingly good and quite fast so I wondered ... I know that the documented way of building armbian is with a x64 computer (with Virtualbox / docker). As I already stated I don't have a big enough x64 computer at hand, would it be feasible to tweak the scripts to build one image (not all) using either my Nanopi M1 (but I guess 512Mo of RAM will be problematic) or a Banana Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 ? If not, building uboot / kernel only ? I started to read the scripts, there are many scripts and but I think I can understand many of them individually even if the global architecture is h…

Hi, I'm trying to build a dev branch image for sun8i but struggle with this: dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi' in '../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-dtb-next-sunxi' in '../linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-next-sunxi' in '../linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-image-next-sunxi' in '../linux-image-next-sunxi_5.07_armhf.deb'. dpkg-genchanges: warning: package linux-libc-dev-next-sunxi in control file but not in files list dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload (no source code included) Later the scripts try …

when build armbian via docker "proces will create and run a named Docker container armbian with 2 named volumes armbian-cache and armbian-ccache" and store it in /var. My root amount is not over 40Gb and it will be good thing to store armbian-cache and armbian-ccache in different place

some simple thoughts to help (assuming limited time consumption) - adding a short "Roadmap" (main & side quests) section (in docs.armbian.com/Process_Contribute/ ?) displaying "main" goals for current & possible next iterations because currently the single tasks is the forum are useful but not "readable" - a (google group?) mailing list (read only) for contributors (to push roadmap changes & call for tasks) - a separate mailing list (read only) to call testers when needed - a page to report testing per board (wiki? google web document?)

I can configure the kernel (KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" in compile.sh), but can not configure U-Boot? How to configure U-Boot at ARMBIAN compilation?

Hi, while testing with various sun8i legacy builds with connected display it came to my attention that kernel always panics at shutdown (in fact I was all the time doing a reboot so it took me some time to notice this). I tried to replace our rmmod example here with this code for module in $(cut -f1 -d' ' </proc/modules) ; do rmmod -f ${module} ; done But to no avail. Still on shutdown or reboot the kernel panics, waits 10 seconds and reboots then. Behaviour might be related to recent kernel additions (FriendlyARM Matrix stuff)? And the other question is which drawbacks the above code could have?

First, I'd like to say thank you for creating this. I have a Pine64 board and have built and loaded an Ubuntu Armbian build on the board. I'm now looking to develop custom software which will include a custom audio driver and custom audio software. I anticipate this means one or more custom kernel modules and custom user space software. I've read through all the documentation and will begin experimenting, but thought I'd check to see if somebody has created a cookbook style recipe for the following: 1. Kernel development: incrementally modifying the kernel, building and deploying on the test board. I can see deployment through the created .deb files, but…

I've got a working Vagrant Armbian Build environment. Now I want to add the following to the sun50i-h5-nanopi-neo2.dts (provides network support in U-boot) and compile a new image. &emac { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&emac_rgmii_pins>; status = "okay"; phy = <&phy1>; phy-mode = "rgmii"; phy1: ethernet-phy@1 { reg = <0>; }; }; Despite reading the docs, I still can't figure out how it's done. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

Dear All, I am following below link for my orangepi3 armbian os and able to successfully prepare image file. Now if i try to again generate image then whole the process go again and it took much time and everytime download packages. Below are my requirement so please help me for. build only uboot but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only kernel but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only rootfs but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build whole image without internet access in my system it will be good if anyone can help me for this so i can speed up my development. https://docs.armbian.c…

I saw bionic image for download, so I thought I would build my customized image for OPI PC based on Ubuntu Bionic and 4.18.y kernel, so I have some questions: 1. Is Bionic fully stable/supported for OPI PC? 2. Is kernel 4.18.y supported? Is it sufficient to set KERNELTAG="v4.18.7" to build it? Or I just has to stick with 4.17.y?

Please to add new version Armbian for Orange Pi PC 1) automount USB Flash 2) SAMBA (server+client) maybe anything

Using ./compile.sh, I'm not able to build ATF for the H5. It appears that the problem is that it's looking for the "allwinner-stable" branch, when the branch name on the repositiory is just "allwinner" or "allwinner-testing". Error is at the bottom of the post. I got it to work by changing the branch name in ./build/config/sources/sunxi64_common.inc by setting ATFBRANCH='branch:allwinner-stable' and it appears to work. Is this a naming problem in the fork of ATF, or a naming problem in armbian/build? Error output from ./compile.sh. Targeting nanopineoplus2, occurs on next/dev with jessie/stretch/ubuntu. [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ …

Greetings. Can I make sure I've understood this correctly. I want to ensure kernel sources always come from a local development directory. In my /userpatches I've got a lib.config which has: KERNELDIR="/home/user/sources/linux-sun8i" with both KERNELSOURCE and KERNELBRANCH commented out. Is this the right thing to do? And just so I can get all my idiot points at once: Specifying KERNELSOURCE and/or KERNELBRANCH will anchor the source repo and branch to whatever I wish? TAIA Jerry. P.S. Armbian *awesome* for super quick experiments/deployments.

Hi, I’m trying to integrate the newly released hostapd 2.7 into an image and I’m having trouble including it as a part of the image build process (bionic on vagrant - by the book). My tree is a few weeks out of date, but I can’t see any subsequent commits to the scripts that seem to be the source of my trouble. My build config is: KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" CLEAN_LEVEL="make,debs,oldcache" DEST_LANG="en_US.UTF-8" # sl_SI.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="no" # do not overwrite kernel config before compilation EXTERN…

I'm trying to add some extra packages and configuration changes to build v20.08. I did the following: git clone -b v20.08 https://github.com/armbian/build build-orange-pi-v20.08 cd build-orange-pi-v20.08 && git reset --hard 6e9b07e touch .ignore_changes ./compile.sh docker BRANCH=current BOARD=orangepizero KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=buster BUILD_DESKTOP=no CLEAN_LEVEL="" NO_APT_CACHER=yes The build ends with "ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:411 ]" When I clone the master without sticking to a revision, it's working fine. But I want to stick to an "official" build. How can this …

Dear maintainers, can you answer a simple question: which board should be selected in build menu for BananaPi M1+ ? I can see 2 options for A20 Soc : "bananapi" and "bananapipro" ? Which one is the preferred option ? Thanks

Trying to create my first Armbian build for rock64 using native environment on Ubuntu 18.04 host. Followed instructions here https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ to clone and build. I am running as a root. Here are the steps I performed: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build/ ./compile.sh I selected full OS, didn't change kernel config, selected rock64, current, focal, image with desktop. I am getting these errors: [ o.k. ] Build host OS release [ bionic ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Checking for external GCC compilers [ error ] ERROR in function …

Hello guys, I built OS with legacy kernel for Orange Pi One using github framework https://github.com/armbian/build . Everything went fine and I got a resulting img file. I copied it to 16GB SD card (7Samsung EVO class 10) and powered up my device but it couldn't start. Below is the log I got from UART console. You can see from it that my device was retrying boot sequence over and over unsuccessfully. Can you help with the problem, please ? P.S. I also built Armbian with mainline kernel and it loaded fine, i.e. problem exists only with legacy kernel -------------------------------------------------------------------…

Please forgive the badly formatted post, I am a bit new here. I was trying to overclock my RockPro64 and ended up writing a device tree overlay (and a rather rudimentary one at that). wasn't sure how to contribute it so I am posting the code here instead. Please note, however, that up until yesterday, I had never written a device tree overlay, so this will not be in the correct format by any stretch of the imagination. I just figured I would post them here as a starting point for anyone who wishes to create a properly formatted dts file to contribute. I got the values that I used from this page on the pine64 wiki: https://wiki.pine64.o…

Hi there, while the customize-image.sh got some attention lately because of OMV integration, I've started a try to enhance the customization process. At the moment any changes to the script are valid for the whole buildenv. That might be good when building just one image but all over I think thats not a good situation, especially for automated building or with more then one customization. I startet to define a $CUSTOM Buildvar and redefined the script locations, starting with the following changes: - delete customize-image.sh an overlay dir - placed it under config/customizations with following layout *-chroot.sh, *-host.sh, …

For a reason I didn't figure out, the build is broken : MKIMAGE CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/read_write.o CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/crypto.o CC lib/kasprintf.o CC [M] net/bluetooth/mgmt.o CC kernel/compat.o CC [M] sound/soc/soc-dapm.o CC [M] fs/ecryptfs/keystore.o Invalid CPU Type - valid names are: alpha, arm, x86, ia64, m68k, microblaze, mips, mips64, nios2, powerpc, ppc, s390, sh, sparc, sparc64, blackfin, avr32, nds32, or1k, sandbox Usage: mkimage -l image -l ==> list image header information mkimage [-x] -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep -n name -d data_file[:data_file...] image -A ==> set architecture to …

Hello, I try to use the Armbian build framework to generate a debian package with modified kernel, generated packages.deb works fine, but the compiled kernel is everytime the default and not mine. I use: ./compile.sh KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG=no and then load my kernel_config but the result is everytime the default kernel, the .config become change then my .config I also try to bypass the problem by adding immutable attribute to my personalized .config (chattr +i ./.config) but the script crash: │ /home/maxi/sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:33: recipe for target 'silentoldconfig' failed …

The new vagrant method looks like it is broken.. In order to login with ssh it asks for password and we do not know it, it does not work as vagrant/vagrant, ubuntu/vagrant, ubuntu/reverse and everything else tried. Can the vagrant armbian instructions be more specific to this? ( although it looks like a serious vagrant bug -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1569237 ) /edit followed this guide to setup, executing exactly what is referenced -> https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/README-Vagrant.md and managed to have a vagrant box up and running, but no means to login to it /edit2 Host system: Win7/64, VirtualBox 5…

I have two build hosts, one was built week ago, one is Xenial, the other is Trusty. Since I added deboostrap to Trusty manually I also downgrade it to Trusty defaults but still ... Wheezy is somehow partially corrupted but it was O.K. few weeks ago. Any ideas what's going on ... before I start digging in?

Ideally I'd like to get a structure in place that rebuilds armbian with each commit to igorpecovnik/lib. I'd love people's ideas on the best way to go about this. I am pretty good with jenkins and all his pals, so if you have a favorite, please do let me know. Dockerfile Any feedback? It should work even on systems that don't have the needed native ubuntu 14.04 Vagrantfile Just used it to make a build myself, seems to be working fine, though there's some troubleshooting to be done with the build. Unsure what the source of the issue is, and had build mainline for opi, so instead I will now build opi-oldkernel.

Hi all. Not sure if it is me not understanding (may well be! built my last kernels in 1997 I think...) or a flaw in this patch: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/general-sunxi-overlays.patch which is supposed to fix this bug if I understand correctly: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1663 Looking at the patch file in my built tree: build/patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/general-sunxi-overlays.patch To my understanding it contains the (re)addition of dts files for sun7i-a20-spi{0..2}, i.e. as of line 3456 it addes the spi0.dts source. However, building the dev kernel (latest, git updated two days…

I tried compiling Debian 9 Full OS Image with Desktop using BRANCH=next and default kernel configs for * NanoPi K1 * Rock64 * OrangePi Plus 2E And all failed at the end: Errors were encountered while processing /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-LTKPXl/621-numix-icon-theme_0.3+922~201711061547~ubuntu16.04.1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:213 ] [ error ] Installation of Armbian packages failed [ o.k. ] Process terminated [ error ] ERROR in function unmount_on_exit [ image-helpers.sh:59 ] [ error ] debootstrap-ng was in…

I'm using nanopi-neo-air board and I have patched the Armbian build script for select uart1 as system console. When I have changed the kernel boot args in boot-sunxi.cmd, script says the: [ warn ] Can't update since you made changes to: config/bootscripts/boot-sunxi.cmd Press <Ctrl-C> to abort compilation, <Enter> to ignore and continue How to normal modify config/bootscripts/boot-sunxi.cmd ? Thank you.

Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation promises setup is easy following Vagrant tutorial. But the link does not lead to a working web page. I am preparing to try building my own Armbian image for Orangepi One.

I am building my own armbian image using the armbian build environment. A substantial part of the image creation time is occupied by over-and-over recompiling the kernel. Sure, it does go faster the 2nd time, but it still takes a lot of time. The goal for me is not to make a custom kernel. I am totally happy with the kernel. The goal for me is to modify the rest of the image. They installed software, config, etc. Is there a way to reuse an existing kernel for this, instead of rebuilding a new one each time? Cheers, Dolf.

Hi all, When i trie to install ISPconfig with softy all goes very well. And when the installation is finished i should be login on https://orangepi-PC:8080/login/index.php . But every what i trie (i read it should be admin/admin at the first start) nothing worked to login. Does anyone know what is the default password or what is the problem van not loging in? Kind regards!

Trying to add the hdmi hotplug udev rule to the build environment, adding it in the same manner as the C2 hdmi config script doesn't work, it tells me the file/folder doesn't exist, I'm guessing then that bsp family tweaks isn't the place to add it?

If I checked the configuration correctly, only Cubox, S500 and Udoo* don't have HAVE_UUID_SUPPORT=yes set, but AFAIK all boot scripts now load the initrd. @Igor can you add and test root by UUID on those boards? Also boot scripts for more boards could use /boot/ambianEnv.txt, I already tested it on XU4 and will try to test it on C2, will anybody be able to test it on C1 or C0 (it has much older u-boot)? If I remember correctly there were some problems either on Cubox or Udoo, but hopefully it can work on most of the left over configurations.

I found root of my card not resized to maximum space available. Unfortunately when I run out of space. Consider adding missing package btrfs-progs to minimal image or warn user when building of such system image is complete so user can resize root manually before the sd card is inserted.

FYI, I need a DKMS module to be reloaded after I upgrade the Armbian kernel files with "dpkg -i *.deb" so the following snippet: - remove /tmp/.reboot_required - compile any header files for scripts - add my favorite frandom-dkms module gr@bpi:/armbian_kernel$ cat mod_noreboot.sh #!/bin/bash #sudo rm /tmp/.reboot_required #pushd . #for f in $(ls -d /usr/src/linux-headers-*-sunxi) #do # cd $f # sudo make scripts #done #popd sudo dpkg -i frandom-dkms_1.1-0centrych4_armhf.deb

[ o.k. ] Building deb [ armbian-config ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-config master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ nanopineocore2 next ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-stretch-root-next-nanopineocore2 ] [ o.k. ] Building desktop package [ armbian-stretc…

Hi all I have updated the armbian repo today and all the H5 boards disappeared... Some new option to add maybe?

I found "lib/patch/kernel/sun8i-default/30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch.disabled." So, just renamed it to .patch. and build default (Vendor provided / legacy) of version 3.4.113. But, showed ERROR. So, I cleaned scripts and newly git clone armbian lib. but the result is the same. Here is output log. Spoiler Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release trusty info ## BUILD SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT Version: 8e605aaaf48a06d74a8e55b1636e51f6893f7b5f ## BUILD CONFIGURATION Build target: Board: nanopineo Branch: default Kernel configuration: Repository: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/linux Branch:…

Hi there, I'm trying to run compile.sh since several days as mentioned in the instructions with Vagrant but no success so far. 1. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ Vagrant Guest steps Instruction tells cd armbian but it is cd /vagrant 2. First run of ./compile.sh stops because the following packages signature could not be verified. Downloading the following packages manually, unpacking them in cache/toolchain and creating a .download-complete file fixed this issue. All other following packages were installed automatically. gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz …

Hello, I try to use DBus within the chroot and I got this issue : Failed to create bus connection The command used was : hostnamectl set-hostname device_name Systemd does not seems to work within the chroot, do you have any workaround ? Thanks, Florian

Spoiler Displaying message: Creating new rootfs for jessie info Displaying message: Installing base system Stage 1/2 info Displaying message: Installing base system Stage 2/2 info Displaying message: ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache debootstrap-ng.sh:139 err Displaying message: Debootstrap base system second stage failed err Displaying message: Process terminated info Displaying message: ERROR in function unmount_on_exit image-helpers.sh:59 err Displaying message: debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Displaying message: Process terminated info @zador.blood.stained Any idea why deboostrap is failing? target is …

How can I exclude from build kernel "dbg" package ? There is a patch for the kernel, but as not know how to fix it (without the original file which is a patch).

Hello there, I am trying to build a custom armbian image using instructions here http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/, because I need to enable additional module for Philips webcam, not included in stock one. I have built the compile environment, run the script, added my modules and compiled, generating the entire image. Once I flash and boot from it though, Uboot hangs while saying "booting the kernel" I have tried release 5.00 and 5.06, using Debian Wheezy and Jessie, with the same result. I have also tried flashing the stock image and then just replace kernel packages I had built, because I thought the problem could have to do with systemd. As l…

Hi Team, I want to flash armbian.img image on olimex rev k board via mini usb to usb cable host machine (Linux ubuntu) without sd card. Please suggest the way How to do it. A little help will really be appreciable. Thanks Sachin Pundir

I'm successfully able to compile Armbian with the 4.17 kernel, Ubuntu Bionic and desktop support for my Orange Pi Plus 2E (H3). But I'm trying to switch from the default nodm display manager to lightdm. I was actually able to install lightdm using lib.config the customize-image.sh script (see here), but then the wizard complains that I have to choose between nodm and lightdm. Then I discovered there's a DISPLAY_MANAGER env variable that I can pass into compile which seems like a better solution. Unfortunately that consistently breaks: Unpacking libpython-stdlib:armhf (2.7.15~rc1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-GgFLat/090-huma…

Hi, I'm trying to build debian kernel but using mainline 5.4.12 + patches from patch/kernel/sunxi-current. I took non disabled patches and apply patch -p1 for all of them and it fails at patch 0010-general-h6-add-dma-i2c-ir-spi-uart.patch in first hunk because opp node in dts doesn't exists. It's not in mainline not in patches. I have no idea how this works though. Is this patch then skipped or? Thanks. Marek

I know there has been an Igor account on the forums that has been trolling the forums, just want to make sure that the troll has not made any changes to the focal distribution, masquerading as the legit Igor. I was building from source, and noticed this debug note:

Hi, while toying around build system for Odroid C1 I saw that toolchains for arm-linux-gnueabihf where "old" as we are at "gcc-linaro-7.2.1-2017.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf" since the 7.3.1 looks like it is not available for this platform. So I did some changes in lib/general.sh and added the following as a fast hack: "https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.4-2019.02/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz" "https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-a/8.2-2019.01/gcc-arm-8.2-2019.01-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz" Then I modified the configuration files fo…

I've been using ./compile.sh to play around booting a NanoPi Neo via FEL and come across an issue when using the default branch. When I build using "BRANCH=dev" it boots but when using ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no BRANCH=default BOARD=nanopineo PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain RELEASE=jessie BUILD_DESKTOP=no ROOTFS_TYPE=fel The resulting kernel doesn't boot and shows the following error via serial on the Neo. "Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x00000000)" I found extracting output/cache/sdcard/boot/boot.scr, adding "setenv machid 1029" and generating the boot.scr image again I was able to get it to boot. Have I missed a step in the compile.sh process…

Hi, I tried to use the Legacy 3.4.113 but when it loads the kernel the Cubieboard2 shows a weird scrambeled picture on the Monitor and just shuts down. So I decided to build the kernel from source. I'm pretty new to Armbian, and the compile script is a lot of different. I built the kernel using the compile.sh script for Cubieborad2. I installed the Mainline 4.9.7 Armbian on Cubieboard2. My question is how to install the built kernel (3.x) on the existing system, as if I try to install the debs I get that I can't install over existing firmware and u-boot (even with force-install)? Thanks!

Hello, I know this will be a controversial subject, but I often like to see what's happening in a devel repository by browsing commits. I start by looking at the commit titles (first commit message line) to approximate the interest that particular entry is to me, then if deemed interesting, I'll read the full commit message to understand what it is about, then if still interested I'll go read the code. I think this is a fairly straightforward approach to digging in a codebase or development stream, avoiding to loose time on things outside of interest scope, and allowing to focus on specific subjects. So, in order for this workflow to be doable, the commit …

Hello, guys, may I ask you to fix the code below so that I can put my custom "sun6i.conf" file into "userpatches/sources/" ? Currently your code makes it impossible because LINUXFAMILY variable is forcibly set to "sunxi" in sunxi_common.inc file. What you can easily do is introducing a new variable so that one can know that LINUXFAMILY was overwritten. configuration.sh -------------------------------------------- [[ ! -f $SRC/config/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf ]] && \ exit_with_error "Sources configuration not found" "$LINUXFAMILY" source $SRC/config/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf if [[ -f $SRC/userpatches/s…

Hello guys I recently moved my build into VirtualBox in order to protect my host's rootfs from potential corruption. Everything went ok, build is working fine. For my project I would like to share toolchains that Armbian has already downloaded on first start. Is it possible to customize the path where toolchains are stored so that I can point to a shared folder? Thank you

Armbian firmware is a repo holding all firmwares used by Armbian releases. files/firmwares in this repo are directly copied to /lib/firmware in release images. I don't know which firmware is used by which device, but some of them are put in wrong place. eg: for Broadcom Bluetooth firmwares, firmwares should be in brcm/ folder, but some of them are not in this folder. is there any plan to add firmware build support in build script or simplely put firmwares in right place.

Every quarter some one apt updates and breaks something after a release.... This can be prevented. We need to produce a repository per release for our debs just like Debian ubuntu etc aka lane@blipsqueak:~/GIT/lj-tools$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com focal main focal-utils focal-desktop becomes lane@blipsqueak:~/GIT/lj-tools$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb http://apt.armbian.com/chiru focal main focal-utils focal-desktop

I am building from source using the vagrant process, as outlined here: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ When running ./compile.sh, I get the option to customize the kernel via dialog and I did select some customizations. When saving the config, I choose the default `.config` as output. However, when running `./compile.sh` a second time, all the settings are back at default and I can not find any `.config` file anywhere in the tree. Spoiler vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~/armbian$ tree output output ├── config │ └── linux-rockchip64-current.config ├── debs │ ├── armbian-config_19.11.9_all.deb │ ├── armbian-…

Playing with BUILD_MINIMAL I had to several times run compilation script for the same board / system / branch. To speed up verification I thought: what is a point to constantly build u-boot / kernel? So I added CLEAN_LEVEL option to not delete generated debs. I have noted that from one hand I can disable cleaning of (for example) kernel deb files, but from other hand if there is repository update no new deb is produced. And the idea.... or is this already implemented somewhere? Build of u-boot / kernel is initiated when no deb file exists. fetch_from_repo function knows if the repository is updated. What is fetch_f…

Release WIP and CSC images from their own page with very specific limitations, including, but not limited to: no kernel or u-boot updates, ideally with the kernel and u-boot package names modified with -unsupported- Explain these are demo snapshot images, potentially even package a different wallpaper that has -unofficial- or something similar watermarked across it. Maybe even use the default WM theme.

S500 devices (LeMaker Guitar and RoseApple Pi) are the only devices without initrd/UUID support, both are EOS and have only 3.10.y EOL kernel source. I propose creating a tag in the build script and deleting their configuration files along with the code that deals with non-UUID root cases to simplify our code base for upcoming LUKS rootfs encryption support. Any thoughts/objections?

Hi all, after runnning cd /root/ apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh i get following error message. Any hints? Spoiler make[3]: *** [drivers/video/sunxi/lcdc.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:425: recipe for target 'drivers/video/sunxi' failed make[2]: *** [drivers/video/sunxi] Error 2 scripts/Makefile.build:425: recipe for target 'drivers/video' failed make[1]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2 Makefile:1278: recipe for target 'drivers' failed make: *** [drivers] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... CC fs/fs.o CC env/env.o CC drivers/us…

hi, i have a problem not being able to build for Odroid-N2. To isolate the issue i created new copy of git ... it fails on kernel build. all defaults. zh@acus:~/git$ git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git armbian Cloning into 'armbian'... remote: Enumerating objects: 151, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (151/151), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (121/121), done. remote: Total 49101 (delta 83), reused 65 (delta 30), pack-reused 48950 Receiving objects: 100% (49101/49101), 325.95 MiB | 8.33 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (32873/32873), done. Checking out files: 100% (2951/2951), done. zh@acus:~/git$ cd armbian zh@acus:~/git/armbian$ ./comp…

I am running the latest Build "Kagu". I have learned about Clean Levels. I am new to all of this. So I was not cleaning anything. I wanted to build the kernel locally after config. I noticed another thread about not seeing the menuconfig during the build even though it was requested. After hand deleting the target linux image deb, then menuconfig was invoked properly. I mention this to indicate that I dont really have control over this "cleaning" yet but I am getting there. I really dont want to clean too much but I have started over with a good cleaning. To simplify things I want to focus on the Minimal Server without Debia…

Hi, I'm not exactly sure where this type of thread goes. If it doesn't go here, can someone please politely move it? Thank you very much! There seems to be a rogue file in the "/etc/sysfs.d/" directory with the file "20-gpu-governor.conf" on my system. This file is meant to tune the GPU governor to "performance", instead of the default "simple_ondemand". But I'm confused as to which package supplies this. It is not supplied by sysfsutils, so maybe it's Armbian specific? Not sure. This file is on Armbian for the Helios64. Here are the contents of the file "/etc/sysfs.d/20-gpu-governor.conf": # Set "performance" GPU…

As far as I can tell, many, if not all, targets generate an identical postinst script for the linux-headers package by patching scripts/package/builddeb. A search of the Armbian build repo for "Compiling headers - please wait" produces 33 code results. This means that improving the postinst script (for example, as discussed here) requires updating 33 patch files. I'd be happy to help improve the situation, but I'm unsure how to proceed. Could we have a global postinst script for the linux-headers package, and somehow copy it into place? or must we use a patch file?

Hi - Are there plans to upgrade uboot from April (v2019.04) to October (v2019.10) for all boards as October final has been tagged ?

Hello, not sure if I'm at the right place here, so please let me know if I'm wrong and where I need to be. Thanks in advance and my apologies... My problem is that for some time now does Apt keep deleting custom kernels in /boot and the package appears to delete kernels not only with a rough pattern, but with "-f" as well, ignoring any file permissions. I've been watching this for a while now and it has left me at first with unbootable devices until I've noticed the cause. I would very much appreciate it of the Armbian kernel package wouldn't just delete anything that looks remotely like a kernel from /boot with a "rm -f *", but only removes the fi…

I followed the documentation and cloned the repo in the Host first, changed to config/templates and started the Vagrant virtual machine. If I am not mistaken, inside the Guest, the repo is cloned again for the actual development. This implies that cloning on the Host system has only the purpose to provide config/templates/Vagrantfile and config-vagrant.conf, is that right? All other cloned files on the HOST have no relevance (except for the directories userpatches and output, which are mounted)? I find that quite confusing and if I am right with my assumption, I would like to add a note to the documentation for future users. Or: Would it be possib…

I am trying to build an Image for the Rockpro but i am allways getting an Error when it comes to compile U-boot (did not make any Changes so far): Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release bionic info Displaying message: Syncing clock host info ## BUILD SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT Repository: https://github.com/armbian/build Version: 46340a24 Host OS: bionic Host arch: amd64 Host system: Linux ek-desktop 4.15.0-33-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 15 16:00:05 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Virtualization type: none ## Build script directories Build directory is located on: TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE AVAIL /home /dev/sda1 ext4 …

I got this error building a Cubietruck image on sunxi-next with patches in both u-boot and the kernel: [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:228 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] Full log: http://pastebin.com/MKTmUXcc

Hello guys after recent updates no patches are executed from "userpatches/kernel/sun8i-dev" anymore. Can you explain what's going on, please ? How should we run user patches now ? Can you also document those changes, please. Thanks

FYI. Merge requests with labels: "beta" or "need testings" are automatically included in next nightly builds.