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Hey guys! Cheap Android tablets based on allwinner chipsets were pretty common back in 2012. Recently I found an tablet equipted with an Allwinner A10 SoC (LY-F1) lying lonely around on my fathers desk. He bought that tablet back then because of the cheap price, but never really used it. Luckily my father also saved an Android 4.0.4 ROM he downloaded from the suppliers website back then, because all websites of this supplier are offline now. After playing around with my OPiZ and seeing how well the sunxi/armbian kernel works, I thounght myself i should try to boot linux from this tablet. At first I tried to pack an image that can be directly writte…

Can't seem to get logged in. Not used to cmd line and can't see first 10 characters. Would like to see a detailed line by line entry for changing the password. Yes I am that stupid.

After installing Ubuntu Focal 20.08.17 (on Pine A64), I have noticed the following. Searching for packages which are not fully installed with dpkg -l|grep -v ^ii returns systemd-timesyncd. This can be fixed by purging the package with dpkg -P systemd-timesyncd but it is better if the image is shipped with this already fixed. Can other users confirm this issue and can it be fixed when building the image?

After installing Ubuntu Focal 20.08.17 (on Pine A64), I have noticed the following. Uninstalling unneeded packages with apt-get autoremove shows that the package python3-distro-info will be uninstalled. Can other users confirm this issue and can it be fixed when building the image?

Hi all, I am wanting to setup a mail server on my Helios4. I went through the armbian-config approach and saw that there is an item under softy called ISPConfig which relates to mail servers etc. Are there any instructions/documentation around setting up a mail server in this manner? Or is there a better option? Thanks in advance

Hi I am using a NanoPi M1+ device with nanopi-m1-plus_sd_friendlycore-xenial_4.14_armh OS in it. I attached an RTL8188EU WiFi adapter in it. But the **ifconfig** doesn't show up. On doing **lsusb** I get Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 029: ID 413c:2113 Dell Computer Corp. Bus 006 D…

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to convert the img.xz file into a usable ISO file to boot onto a USB drive. I have no idea, tried using a few converter tools and they don't seem to be doing the job. Anyone know of a way to accomplish this? Thank you.

I’ve done some searching, but haven’t found a clear answer. i have a rockpi-s with a built in eMMC that has a bootable armbian image. When i insert a micro-SD card into the RP, and the card has a bootable image, it happily boots off of the card. Remove the card, and it boots off the eMMC. Perfect. Now, how do I duplicate this same functionality with a usb key? no key or sd = boot from eMMC SD inserted = boot from SD USB inserted = boot from USB I’ve been able to get the RP to boot from the usb using armbian-install to set it up, but then if I remove the USB, it no longer boots from the eMMC.

Hi guys, does anyone have an experience with running webtorrent-hybrid or webtorren-cli (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent-cli) on Olinuxino MICRO or similar? I have installed npm package, started seeding, but instant.io doesn detect my peer. The same example works on desktop without an issue. Can anyone try and confirm if it is working or not on A20 boards?

I want to set static IP in armbian, I edit interfaces in /etc/network as follow auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.19.19.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 172.19.19.253 but when in terminal get ifconfig , address ,...there isn't exist and ping address is `Destination host unreachable` what am I missing??

Ok first, im new to linux, i am moving from windows and becoming a linux user. (trying to learn linux) So i used the command- sudo h3disp -m 800x480 -d It is the correct resolution for the lcd but idk what exactly is going on with my display, it works but the screen is chopped off. im not sure what to do Im using an orange pi one and latest armbian desktop image from the armbian download page

I have had a chinese sd card and armbian never booted on it(loop stuck). Now i have a Toshiba sd card, it booted.... once. Reflashed the sd card exactly as the 1st time,boot loop... no way. I would love to use armbian, but it seems really hard to get it work, any ideas? USED: Ubuntu 16 to flash 8gb toshiba sd card class 4 Model: Orange Pi lite Image: Armbian_5.30_Orangepilite_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113.img

I know I'm trying to be lazy but why can't we install the PREEMPT_RT kernel from the Debian Bookworm Repositories? eg with: sudo apt install linux-image-rt-arm64. This appears to work but it does not boot into the new RT kernel. Downloaded the deb file and used sudo dpkg-i and it also failed to boot yet this command works if we install a RT kernel we built in the build environment Ran armbian-config and tried to install the kernel but alas its not displayed in the list. Why not? I can pull down Debian Bookworm for the Raspberry Pi from the Debian site and install preempt_rt this way. Why does Armbian make it so hard? …

Hi Guys: I have been trying to write a custom overlay to use gpio-poweroff. I'm using ARMBIAN 5.37.180106 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.14.11-sunxi. Attached is the gpio-poweroff.dts file that i wrote and even as it compiles with sudo armbian-add-overlay gpio-poweroff.dts and it is added to the last line on armbianEnv.txt like user_overlays=gpio-poweroff, it doesn't work. On boot, it shows: Applying user provided DT overlay gpio-poweroff.dtbo failed on fdt_overlay_apply() FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND Error applying DT overlays, restoring original DT All the other other overlays ilke i2c0, uart3 works perfeclty. Any…

Hello, I've found a few logrotate bug reports in search, but they are not related to a "HDD" install. I have two armbian systems on different boards set up and installed on SD cards. Both systems have the email facilities set up, which is why I found out about this. This is what I get once a day via email from each of the systems: From: Cron Daemon <XXXXXXXXXXXX> X-Google-Original-From: root@cubie (Cron Daemon) Received: by cubie (Postfix, from userid 0) id 5FC6511FA06; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:25:13 +0000 (UTC) To: root@cubie Subject: Cron <root@cubie> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report …

Hi. Finally have the time to get into this, and find the biggest problem i am having right now is conceptual. What is Softy? Why is it needed? Why is it better than installing from apt with a repository? How is its installed software managed, including updates? Also, I understand that there is no uninstall feature. In which case, how do manage system recovery? Say I install docker and omv and I've set up other bits and pieces like wifi and ssh, then I mistakenly install desktop. I want to uninstall desktop... It looks like I need to bust back down to a clean image and start again. Do wiser heads have a good strategy to handle …

I'm running the newest Arbian Buster Kernel (Linux version 5.8.14-sunxi) on a Orange Pi Zero LTS. I can't get a DS18B20 running over days of experimeting. I read a lot in this forum, followed the suggestions of martinayotte and others, no success. The frustration/desperation begins to rise. Extract from boot screen: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Found mainline kernel configuration 32515 bytes read in 12 ms (2.6 MiB/s) 374 bytes read in 17 ms (21.5 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-i2c0.dtbo 778 bytes read in 18 ms (42 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8…

Hello. My image for Orange Pi One has the following build after apt update and apt upgrade ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS 4.14.70-sunxi "sudo systemctl enable resize2fs" does not work anymore Error message says "Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory" "sudo systemctl enable resize2fs && sudo reboot" works on old kernal images @tkaiser could you please advise how to reinstate SD card resize on first boot? Thank You.

I have a brand new install of Armbian 20.05.4 trying sudo armbian-config to enable overlayroot and getting sed: can't read /etc/overlayroot.conf: No such file or directory is that a feature of a bug? would touch /etc/overlayroot.conf be a proper work around or is something more expected of me to enable overlayroot?

I have several Pi3s and two Asus Tinkers. They work well, Tinker is a bet better of the two. Want something fast to use with my 3D print. and Octoprint etc. So want to run CAD software, Slicer etc. and control of my Creality CR-10. - So, I bought OrangePi and had bad initial experience, and boot SW was in Chinese. So I returned it and got their best? The OrangePi 2 Plus. - Should have been better. My experience is it is very very temperamental. I found, and I see others have experience power supply issues. 1. Must make sure the 5V does NOT go below, 5Vs. The average current runs between .5 and .8 Amp. but there are large peaks. I used a 3A raged supp…

Hi I have used Armbian quite a bit now for various projects with great success and even debugged my own hard-to-solve issues. I am considering using an H3 based board (OrangePi + 2E) to replace the cheap junk media player I use. Incidentally Armbian will run on that device, but I am not sure what the video support is like- its a RockChip RK3xxx series SoC. Now, out of the box, Armbian (Buster, Focal, etc..) video playback stutters on Full HD (720p and up) content, particularly at full screen. I understand this is because I need to install a binary blob driver for the GPU? I've done this on normal desktop PCs before running Ubuntu, which is very easy to do, h…

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this question. I just installed Armbian onto a Odroid XU4 and it looks great but I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I can't paste more than about 146 characters into the terminal. I'm logged in over SSH. I'm trying to create a text file by pasting the contents in from my mac's clipboard and every time it only pasts the last ~140 characters of the text. I've tried everything and searched everywhere and can't figure out where this is being limited. Any help would be greatly appreciated : ) Joel.

Any reason why an XFS kernel driver isn't included in the Armbian images? I'm coming from the RHEL world so I have no idea if it's common for Debian and it's variants to not have XFS support? I'm kind of baffled. root@cubox-i:~# cat /proc/filesystems nodev sysfs nodev rootfs nodev ramfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev cpuset nodev cgroup nodev cgroup2 nodev tmpfs nodev devtmpfs nodev debugfs nodev securityfs nodev sockfs nodev pipefs nodev rpc_pipefs nodev devpts ext3 ext2 ext4 vfat nodev nfs nodev nfs4 nodev jffs2 nodev autofs fuseblk nodev fuse nodev fusectl f2fs nodev mqueue…

Hi! I need some help! I want to create a clone of my existing card in new card to use it with another board (same model), how I can do this? I'm not very expert, this is my first board. Basically I need a two identical system in two identical board based on first card which have all file installed

is there any plan for a fix? also i tried usb wifi but this one is constantly dropping .... [ 955.206493] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-platform [ 955.252439] i2c i2c-0: mv64xxx_i2c_fsm: Ctlr Error -- state: 0x2, status: 0x0, addr: 0x34, flags: 0x0 [ 955.368151] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8176, bcdDevice= 2.00 [ 955.368168] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 955.368174] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter [ 955.368180] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 955.368188] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 955.373535] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0…

pi@pi-one:~$ uname -a Linux pi-one 4.11.12-sun8i #21 SMP Sun Nov 12 00:27:19 CET 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux pi@pi-one:~$ sudo h3disp sudo: h3disp: command not found pi@pi-one:~$

Hi, file names with Asian characters are displayed as "?????" in Armbian. $ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.0.200/y /media/200_y -o user=armuser $ ls -1 /media/200_y/ "??????_text.txt" "banner_????.jpg" $ cat /etc/default/locale # File generated by update-locale LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 ##LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 ###LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=ko_KR.UTF-8 ## For your Information, in my ubuntu, there's no such a problem. It displays the above file names with proper Asian characters. Thank you in advance for any hint!!

Hello, please, is it possible (if yes, how or what are available parameters) to run nand-sata-install from command line "one liner" - I mean without going to programm GUI? I would like to just run one command with predefined command line parameters and it should automatically copy microsd to emmc storage. Many thanks

Hi! I just flashed Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT onto my Odroid HC1 SD-Card. The download page states: "For HC1 and HC2 we provide specially optimized config which has to be applied manually. This results in shorter boot time and lower consumption. Edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt and add: board_name=xu4 # or xu3, xu3, hc1" However there is no /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Should I just run the system as is or do I have to modify something to have it run optimally? Should I just create the file and add line? Thx! Björn

Hi.. I Just forgot my password.. can someone tell me how to fix it /reset?

Hello, I try to download beelink image (there is a 404 error) I know that this version is not supported but could amrbian team make these links work again ? Best Regards

I would like to build image (by https://github.com/armbian/build) while select kernel I have 2 options: - stable - development which one 4.x kernel version? I've tried build from each option but always get 5.x kernel

Hello. First, I have an LTS board that provides only 3.05 on the 3.3 pins. Is it normal ? Anyway, in case this was the issue, I have built a new voltage regulator, and now supply the DHT22 and pullup resistor with 3.60V My issue is simple: when plugged on normal 1W bus, the DHT22 kills the bus, and makes other devices non working. I have moved all other devices on a new bus, leaving the DHT on a bus I know works fine. Some people mentionned the DHT is not compliant with official 1W libraries, and can not be recognised with normal timings, so, special libs are required. I have removed param_w1_pin=PA06 for the hysical pin 7, and installe…

What is the recommended way to back up a user's *.img? I ask b/c I crashed the OS (Debian 11 Xfce) after a number of hours by upgrading via Synaptic -- don't know which of the upgrade group did the damage. It was a major pain to go back through everything I had done. I tried the very nice script "image-backup" from the image-utils developed by user RonR on the RPi Forum, but it complains about the wrong Partition config. Is there a method that is known to work? TIA

Hello, I wonder how I can perfom this task in armbian in a standard way. Thanks Gianni

Hello I've previously build and deployed an armbian image for a pinecube using "bionic" which used kernel version 5.10.60. I have recently tried to build and deploy a new image, but the kernel is now 5.10.72 which wouldn't normally be a problem, but I have found that I've not been able to get gstreamer and some of it's dependacies installed. Is it possible to specify a particular kernel version when I'm building an armbian image, in if so how do I do it? Thanks in advance Andrew

Hello, I saw from other posts that is possible to enable HWDecode for Video on the H3 of OrangePi PC O would love to make mpv or cvlc work with hwaccel People mention to apply the patches of LibreELEC on the Armbian build. But i dont have the knowhow to do so. Does anyone already have done this? any links, tips, guides, tutorials that i can follow Ty in advance and sorry for grammar

Hi, all I have a development kit board Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC HDK 8550/SM8550/sm8x50. As understand it's more smartphone. Do we have support from Armbian for this board ? If so, can you provide me some info how to install it on sm8550 ? Currently, sm8550 has only fastboot and some AOSP images (u-boot, boot etc)

Hi, running armbian debian Linux odroid-backup 4.14.222-odroidxu4 ; and having attached 2x 3.5" disks i am getting so many disconnects in dmesg log paste.debian.net/1205714/ Is that armbian / kernel / or odroid issue? So i can further investigate. thank you

I am new (very new) to Linux and I am using a Hummingboard configured wit Igor package (that may not be the way you call that) and trying to upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie following Armbian documentation. That does not seem to work...missing dependencies or something like that. Here is what I am getting (from terminal). "root@cubox-i:~# dpkg -r ramlog dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove ramlog, only the config files of which are on the system; use --purge to remove them too root@cubox-i:~# cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak} root@cubox-i:~# sed -i -e 's/ \(old-stable\|wheezy\)/ jessie/ig' /etc/apt/sources.list root@cubox-i:~# apt-get updateHit http://security.…

Hello Pin A18 is HIGH when OPI ONE boots but I want to change OPI ONE pin A18 to LOW. How could I do this?

Hi, I wanted to upgrade armbian today, but unfortunately I get a lot of errors: ... (many same errors before) dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to remove newly-extracted version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.6-sunxi/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h': Read-only file system dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to remove newly-extracted version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.6-sunxi/include/acpi/acpi.h': Read-only file system dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to remove newly-extracted version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.6-sunxi/include/acpi/acoutput.h': Read-only file system dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to remove newly-extracted ve…

Hello. Sorry, I am Russian and have no money for a strong computer. I have only a tablet PC, but I really want to learn Linux (and at the same time try it). So I am trying to install Armbian build on my tablet (Texet TM-9751HD). The most suitable build (mainline Kernel 4.19) is "Bananapi M2" (but it was loaded only with the "yones-toptech-bs1078-v2.dtb", so I was able to get a prompt # - suggestion to log in, where I must input login/password). The problem is that the tablet has only one micro-usb port, which works as charging and OTG. The keyboard works fine under Android, but doesn't respond at the prompt. Also, I tried the old Kernel(3.4) and the original Scrip…

Hello, I'm trying to use i2c (i2c1, i2c4) with fresh installed image "Armbian_21.05.1_Tinkerboard_focal_current_5.10.34.img.xz". The related overlays seems to be enabled by default: cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=false overlay_prefix=rockchip overlays=i2c1 i2c4 spi2 spidev2 uart1 uart2 rootdev=UUID=68be20e3-93fc-4c59-95e1-0c534586d070 rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u i2c is enabled by default: i2cdetect -l i2c-2 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-0 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-5 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter …

pine64 products have sloppy DC connectors. This connector simply detaches from the motherboard. I use in production pine64 pine64-lts pineH64 and rock64. As a result of switching on and off the dc connector, in each case it has peeled off and does not hold power. I've attached the DC connector with glue but that's not what the factory mount. The low price now goes sideways. workmanship worse than nonopi.

Hello there, My board had just rebooted with no notice, so I wanted to take a look at /var/log/syslog in order to diagnose the issue, but for some reason, there are no logs between Dec 30 and the moment my board rebooted. Why are logs missing? What do I need to do in order to keep them the next time my board reboots? Also, am I looking at the right place to diagnose reboots? Thanks for you help! PS1: My board is the Helios64 and I'm running Armbian 20.11.4 Buster with OMV 5. PS2: I know there is an Helios64 Club, though I did not choose to post there as I'm not sure if this issue is specific to that board.

Armbian 5.90 Orangepi-r1 Debian buster next kernal was upgraded to 4.19.62 using aptitude (not that that matters) armbian-config wont run because it wants dpkg-reconfigure which in /usr/sbin which in not in the path. where dose this get set ? root@orangepi:/home/james# $PATH bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games: No such file or directory root@orangepi:/home/james#

I am using Pine A64 1Gb as a development board where I am using Armbian 20.11.7 Buster with Linux 5.10.4-sunxi64 as my OS and i tried installing Numpy either directly on board through terminal or from SSH after running for few minutes it freezes and i have to power reset the board. I am using command: pip3 install --verbose numpy and it freezes after these last few lines: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: numpy/core/src/umath/ufunc_object.c aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: build/src.linux-aarch64-3.7/numpy/core/src/npymath/ieee754.c aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: build/src.linux-aarch64-3.7/numpy/core/src/npymath/npy_math_complex.c aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: numpy/core/src/npymat…

I already had armbian buster installed on my nanopi neo core, i recently tried to update and upgrade but here is what m getting: root@nanopineo:~# apt update Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB] Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB] Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [51.9 kB] Hit:5 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-…

Hi, I've read this post but it's two years old. What I need is a SBC (in order to save some energy costs, otherwise have to go to x86) that could be used as a small SOHO firewall and router and also small file and backup server. I'd need gigabit ethernet (preferably with dedicated controller), at least one, could buy a dongle to have another port. A SATA interface would be nice, otherwise USB 3 is needed. Probably at least two USB 3, one for the ethernet dongle, another for the SATA disk. UASP support would be great. The lower the cost and the more stable the best. What do you recommend?

Hi, Im trying to install a driver for a usb wifi dongle. Im getting the error below. Can I compile the driver with the older linux-header? Is there somewhere where I can get the current linux-headers? I tried adding --kernelsourcedir but it keeps asking for the same version. I used armbian-config to install the headers and source Kernel upgrades are frozen due to hardware

i am using armbian 24.2.1 debian bookworm inn orangepi 5b. At first i used sd card to boot. then i wanted to use emmc to boot. so i went to armbian-config and install os in emmc from there from sd card. now it is booting from emmc if the sd card is not connected but if the sd card is connected it is booting from sd card. The worst part is, if i connect a sd card where there is no OS, it will not even boot. How can i set a order like if there is bootable os in emmc boot from there and use the sd card as storage if not boot from sd card ?

Hi, I realize that V3s is not H2 or H3, but I hope the question is generic. Is it possible to make the FB 16 bit? In mainline Linux? I'm working with a Lichee Pi board. The depth is 18 bits but the fb in Linux is 32 bit. I'd love to get it down to 16 bits to save 1/2 of the video memory and just 2 color bits are a small price to pay. I understand that Linux inherits the FB from u-boot.

Hello, I've fairly new to ArmBian and as I'm trying to setup a cluster of Rock64's, I'm wondering if there's any support for using cloud-init (user-data) to be able to setup a board on boot? Thanks!

Hello, I've the Pi One H3 version that I always used with a HDMI to VGA adapter that worked ok until lately that stopped working. So I was thinking to connect the board to a TV monitor having DVI connection. I've tried both stable and experimental version of Armbian o.s. and it shows the same problem, basically it boots ok at native resolution (1280x768 60Hz) until it starts the desktop GUI and it goes to "no signal". If I return to the text console mode the monitor feel the signal again and at the same native panel resolution. I've tried both HDMI to DVI adapter at the monitor side and also an HDMI to DVI adapter and using a DVI cable on the board side and noth…

Hi, I need to install kernel headers to build a wifi driver. Using armbian-config to install the headers does not work ... After much searching came across a logical suggestion - i.e. install the 'linux-headers-current-sunxi' package ... When I install that package (on a fresh 22.08.1install), the package installed is for 22.05.03 ... which is, er, the wrong version? Where do I find the headers for 22.08.1 ? Many thanks!

Hi there, I am quite new to Armbian (Debian), but experienced on Fedora (RedHat). I want to use national language support on my Armbian device [Orange Pi PL+]. In particular Polish (but if this post transforms into guide it will be for others too). How do I install(?) / enable (?) / rebuild (?) packages (especially GUI) to enable Polish language? With this, OPi / Armbian would be an "viable" alternative to some "STBs" (2x less price... freedom of installing packages). Fonts, keyboard (I saw only "Polish-Dvorak" which is not correct, should be "polish-programmers" - with ALT-Gr or Polish-"typewriter" which I guess is not available now), all these stuff. …

Time to time i got following notification on Banana Pi M1. Only after reboot Banana starts working properly. How to tune zram to avoid such kind of issue? No tuning made till now Linux bananapi 4.19.17-sunxi #5.73 SMP Mon Jan 28 21:06:40 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux error: Compressing program wrote following message to stderr when compressing log /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log.1: gzip: stdout: No space left on device error: failed to compress log /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log.1 error: Compressing program wrote following message to stderr when compressing log /var/log/wtmp.1: gzip: stdout: No space…

I just installed latest CubieTruck image (Armbian_20.08.2_Cubietruck_buster_current_5.8.6) and /sys/class/power_supply/axp20x-ac is missing. With older image (Armbian_20.05.4_Cubietruck_buster_current_5.4.45) it was present. Any ideas? ls /sys/class/power_supply/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Okt 21 00:00 axp20x-battery -> ../../devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20x-battery-power-supply/power_supply/axp20x-battery lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Okt 21 00:00 axp20x-usb -> ../../devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-0/0-0034/axp20x-usb-power-supply/power_supply/axp20x-usb

Hi All We are having a problem where on booting the /var/log is filled and uses all mmc storage space. Does anyone know how to intervene in te booting process to stop this mapping and filling up of the fs? This issue sometimes causes the device to fail to boot properly and remain inaccessible. (It may indeed be that an unclean shutdown is causing this problem). Booting up properly is essential for us and we do not want or need these logs . We send the logs over the server, so capture these anyways. This posting refers to our same issue: Any help much appreciated. Thank you for Armbian! Best wishes Eric

Hello everyone. This is my first post here. My background is software development but not very experienced in the Linux SBC world. So, I have 2x Radxa Zero 3W (not listed on Armbian) with a Rockchip 3566 MCU. And here the questions start... - why don't the Orange Pi 3B or Quartz 64B Armbian images, with the same MCU, don't work on the Radxa Zero 3W ? Aka, shouldn't an OS be portable ? I'm not expecting such of Windows, but I did expect it from Linux - what do the loaders contain exactly ? I have this situation where an older loader seems to boot with Armbian (and then shuts down) but a newer one doesn't... yet the older one doesn't work with the OS from Radxa …

Hello everyone, I encountered a "No space left on device (28)" issue while compiling custom firmware and would like to seek your help. The firmware compilation process works fine under normal circumstances. However, after using the customize-image.sh script to install my own applications, the rootfs size became 3285 MiB, and I encountered the "No space left on device (28)" error during compilation. I modified FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE to 6G and recompiled, but the same issue persisted. After mounting the raw file, I confirmed that no additional files could be added. I suspect there’s some parameter restricting this, but I’m not sure…

Dear all, so after switching from bananian to armbian around half a year ago, I've made several updates to the bananapi server running. As the prototype server is still running with bananian, some problems just occured as I am now testing a fresh install of my web-package, including nginx, mysql, php7 / laravel and some other stuff. So what I realized was that the database, even on a fresh install, is extremely slow. I thought the newer setup with debien stretch and mariadb 10.1+ might be the problem, yet running the same on the older armbian jessie build did not change anything. I also set up a fresh virtual machine running debian stretch with two cores,…

I have tried downloading the Armbian Buster release for the BananaPi M3 but it only seems to have a EXT4 partition and no FAT BOOT partition. How am I meant to prepare an SD Card ? How do I go about getting the BOOT Partition or kernel and rdinit files for a boot partition ?

Hello. I just got the board to play with, but I can't find any specific documentation on how to build a specific image to such board. After researching on google, foruns, etc. I've found some *mentions* on using the bananapim2 config and build (since they use the same core), but it's not working. Building an image using bananapim2 profile, after power on the device start booting from SD, but shows me: unknow image format and start asking for TFP to find flash. Can you please point me toward some useful information on how to build an Armbian image on such card? Thank you in advance

Hello to the community I'm new on armbian, previuosly was using Lubuntu on my cubietruck. I'm really happy to have changer for the armbian Bionic version more efficient and with many features. The cubietruck is running as a charm ! :) Just one problem, I wanted to install urBack from armbian-config menu. But this never installs it. I tried to run "sudo apt-get install urbackup-server" in a terminal via ssh, but with no success : "'urbackup-server' has no installation candidate" I'm sure I did something wrong or have forgotten something ? Could you please provide help for this little problem on my side ? Tha…

Hello there, I connected my board to 5v/4a power adapter and the blu/red led shines...yet the monitor shows "No Signal". Any ideas will be appreciated, Damian

I have a working Armbian SD card and I used it for some time made some changes in the system (disabled some services, installed some libraries and made new services etc...). I use this SD card with Cubieboard-3 (Cubietruck). And I have a backup of the entire root filesystem from that SD card. Now I've got second Cubieboard-3 device and I need a second SD card to boot the second device into the same OS with actual changes. The good approach would be to backup only CHANGES in some manner that would allow me to install fresh armbian to new SD card and them roll my changes to it. But instead, i started a stupid approach of doing this: just copied the entire filesystem to back…

Hello, A while back i was using my rock64 as a media player running armbian with some success. Since a hiatus and reinstall of the latest armbian focal mainline release, the i2s output no longer works. I can get output on the 3.5mm jack, but not on the RCAs of the DAC board. I spent some time playing around the fdtget/fdtput with no success as i don't really know what i'm doing in that space. Does anyone know how to enable I2S? Volumio got mentioned allot in my google searches, so i tried that and viola the DAC works again. volumio@volumio:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDMI [HDMI…

Hi, today i downloaded the new main branch from git and tried to build my custom board (it works with master branch). After the initial setup i get this after uboot deb creation: Built u-boot deb OK [ linux-u-boot-current-CUSTOMBOARD_23.05.0-trunk_armhf.deb ] error! [ Artifact file /home/sgufa/build/output/debs/linux-u-boot-CUSTOMBOARD-current_2022.07-Se092-Pfebc-B680b_armhf.deb did not exist, after artifact_build_from_sources(). ] Any suggestion?

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Hello, Now I got 3 different sata -> USB Brigdes but none of them are recognized by any of the USB Ports. I was just wondering which sata is build onto a orangepi 2 plus so that it works. Is it even connected internally via USB? Anything is helpful, since I would like to install mediavault and it does not really make sense. :-> all the best

Hello, Cubietruck user here After successful update using sudo apt-get update && time sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I'm no longer able to update. Any call to apt-get with any params gets me "Bus error" message. I've tried to clean up /var/cache/apt with no luck (the only solution across internet I found) File: /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/update…

Hello. I've received a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter from the Pine64 store. The problem is than the adapter is not fully SAT compliant, so hdparm doesn't work with it. It is described better in this post. And there's an updated firmware for the JMS578 chip which fixes this issue. However, it was made for another device (Odroid HC1), not the device I have. Is it safe to use this firmware in my adapter? Or maybe there's even more fresh firmware exists for JMS578 chips?

So I've had an odroid C2 running Armbian for the past couple of years without a hitch. Today however, when I try to login to my box either remotely or directly, I'm greeted with a login screen. On this box consists of 4 accounts (all mine) and I've set my primary account to automatically login when booted (never needed a password). Yet still, I'm greeted with the login screen. I try to login under my other accounts using my password, but even then, screen goes black for a second, then back to login screen. I really need some help here. As I said, I've been running Armbian flawlessly up until this point, now all of a sudden I can't even login to any of my accou…

Yes, I managed to do this. Luckily I managed to re-enable the GDM3 graphical console on-start-up by using the debug serial port and then using the GUI through the TV to put the tick back to enable networking. Yep, very much a noob mistake. So, the question is when networking is disabled so eth0 and wlan0 disappear, leaving only lo, how do I get eth0 and wlan0 back just using the command line? I can't easily find how to do this. I've looked, I've searched and now .... help! :-) (I do also have the ability to put the MicroSD card into my laptop, so maybe it would be simpler to do that and change some configuration files to re-enable networking?) …

Hi, I got a problem with orange pi zero and audio record latency. What I try to do is to record the audio on orange pi zero, send data to my phone and play it here, but the delay is big(around ~1-1.5s) that's is quite a lot. I've tested it for a few days now and I am sure the delay is on the device. What is interesting sending audio the other way(phone->orange pi zero) has no delay at all(~0.1s). First I tried to use Qt(5.9) and QAudioInput, now I switched to alsa libraries but no results. I also tried to use command line to check this arecord | aplay but still I can hear the delay. Is there any way to decrease the latency? …

Hello, I'm running Armbian on a Orange pi one. In htop I found out that the CPU temperature is not correct. So I tried to figure out what happens. The CPU is define not as hot as the value says. For me it looks line that the factor is about 2. I just wanted to inform about it. I can also deliver more information if required and also support to debug... I started the following commands for verification. $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 63809 $ armbianmonitor -m Running unprivileged. CPU frequency will not be displayed. Stop monitoring using [ctr…

Hello, I've built a new and clean Image for "Armbian_5.34_Bananapipro_Debian_stretch_default_3.4.113_desktop". The network-manager is not running and can not be started. root@bananapipro:~# /etc/init.d/network-manager start [....] Starting network-manager (via systemctl): network-manager.serviceJob for NetworkManager.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status NetworkManager.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. failed! root@bananapipro:~# root@bananapipro:~# systemctl status NetworkManager.service ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkMa…

Hi guys, I am going to apply some LibeELEC multimedia patches to Armbian kernel Please advise, what is the proper way for this? I have found folder build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current. Should I put files here?

I'm a noob... And paid for cyberghostvpn Account. Now i want to run cgvpn on docker. Now i'm running a virtuell Ubuntu on my WindowsPC. But there's a server with can do it. But how? I tryed to config some openvpn images, but nothing works. How can i add my ca.crt, client.crt, client.key and openvpn.ovpn and run it?!? Thanks in advance and please: Not to complicated. Greetins Daniel

I like(*) to connect to the micro-USB port of my OrangePi Zero (H2+) a USB peripheral device, so the port at the OPi must act as host. I have activated the port in armbian-config. Then, following forum posts such as [1], I switched the dr_mode in the port's device tree section to "host". (Decompile, edit, compile, then placed the resulting .dtb file to /boot/dtb-.../, then rebooted.) Nevertheless, the port does not seem to work as host, at least no device is detected in dmesg when plugging the stick in at the port. (same with lsusb) I have tested the stick itself in another hardware setting, and the cabling near the OPi's micro-USB port in so…

Hi all, We try develop remote controlled plug with Orange Pi Zero r1... We have some problems... We want operation is follow this steps: 1- Powered device... 2- First Start Device is opening with Wifi AP mode (?) 3- Users connect to device with ethernet or Wifi 4- Go to (192.168.1.1) 5- If users want to direct control plugs no problem they are using this page Open/Close plugs. 6- If users want to 'device is connect LAN', they are select LAN selection and if they have wifi, select their wifi SSD and type pwd and click SAVE button or connet with Ethernet. (?) 7- Device is restart and connect to LAN.. 8- They are …

Hey all... Looking to put something a LOT more lightweight than RaspiOS (and not-modern-desktoppy at all, please) on my Pi4Bs. Found out about armbian from the Wikipedia page and downloaded the Jammy CLI image, but I can't get either gitlab or github to talk to me for downloading either of the recommended imagers; gitlab just gives me a blank page (no HTMl at all, per Firefox "view source") and github outright refuses connections. If it's important I do not have accounts on either system, and am loath to create same, although I could if necessary. I don't have Internet at home so I'm doing this from a Win10 PC at my public library; it's running t…

the last weeks I did read about some SBCs not having a ethernet-connection after update. This time I got this with update from 5.10.3-dev to 5.10.4-dev with armbian buster I had the Network-Manager deinstalled and did see my IP which I did configure via /etc/networks but couldnt arrive the K1Plus via ssh/ping and when I used a TTL-RS232 on the K1Plus I cant ping anything in my network or the internet. But dmesg did say the networkport eth0 is up (yellow and green led are also did "work") dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx To switch back to a older kernel I had to configure wlan0, but eth0…

Because I have updated to Armbian 22.02 with the linux 5.15.25 kernel and I am using the rk3328-nanopi-r2-rev00 device tree, I thought I should share what I have discovered. 1/ I had trouble setting up a one-wire device (ds18b20 temperature sensor). I think the w1-gpio pin assigned in the supplied overlay is messing up access of the SD card. I found some helpful information from this post: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php ... #pid100639 I copied the overlay code, modified it to use GPIO2_A2 (pin 7 on the 26pin header), compiled it and copied the new dtbo file to "/boot/overlay-user/" . Added the "user_overlays=rockchip-w…

Hello everyone, First timer here. I enabled the wlan0 interface on my Orange Pi zero 2w and am able to connect to the internet. However, I am not able to connect to it via SSH or even ping it, (cannot resolve host). I'm using the minimal image available here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-2w/ I followed the docs to configure wifi as pointed out here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/#connecting-to-wifi-network Currently I'm stuck on how to debug it further. I tried to ping other devices from within the orange pi and it works without any issues. Any advice is very much appreciated

Hi! I powered off my tvbox directy by power cord, and after boot can not enter in Xorg anymore, the screen go to black like successful Xorg start and back to console (each try delay 1s - slow blinking) and repeat this process ininterruptly. Maybe related to lightdm? How to start in console mode to try to fix it? This already happen with two different tv boxes (with buster and now with bullseye).

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OrangePi 4, Question in subject as I found at least 3: - https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu - https://github.com/fastoe/RTL8812BU - # REALTEK RTL88x2B USB Linux Driver **Current Driver Version**: 5.13.1 **Support Kernel**: 2.6.24 ~ 5.17 (with unofficial patches) (forgot URL). On Armbian system "automagically" configures card after inserting, can configure as AP, only iwconfig shows as follow: wlxb44bd62f536b IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"ARMBIAN" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>" Mode:Master Frequency:5.2 GHz Access Point: B4:4B:D6:2F:53:6B Bit Rate:300 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0 Retry:off R…

Hi all I am currently working on my Orange Pi Plus A31s. What I did with your image so far: The image Link for Debian Jessy pointed me to the Banana Pi M2 image. Downloaded it, dd-ed it to the sdcard, powerup, the red led keeps flashing for ever (waited 15 minutes) So i started to wander around the sdcard and noticed the link /boot/script.bin pointing io /boot/bin/bananapim2.bin. But this file was not present. I tried all 3 images, but i was unable to find that file. I copied it over from other project, that did not work. And I copied it from the same folder /boot/bin/orangepi.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapim2.bin with the same result. Can you help me wi…

Hey, guys, I just upgraded my OrangePi Zero. Everything seems to be working, but I'm disturbed by incorrect information on the home page: v25.2.3 for Orange Pi Zero running Armbian Linux 6.12.20-current-sunxi Packages: Debian end of life (buster), possible distro upgrade (bookworm) Support: DIY (community maintained) Please advise me how to make Armbian correctly display the installed version. Thank you.

Hello i had to wipe my repo list as i was getting an odd error but not i cant seem to figure out how to re add the repo to my system. i went to other software and added what i thought was the right info but not I get this error message when trying to run apt-update note i am on hirsute. Help would be appreciated! E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com/hirsute/main hirsute-utils Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Hi Mates, when i check my device with the dmesg command it looks like that my harddrive (connected WD Red Hard Drive via SATA) has an issue: 3.404949] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 [ 7.204630] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 7.204662] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000000 [ 7.204676] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 7.204686] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:00:66:54/00:00:57:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq dma 4096 in res 41/40:00:00:66:54/00:00:57:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> [ 7.204718] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 7.204728] ata1.00: error: { UNC } [ 7.20601…

I have a Windows PC and I'm going to install a Linux distribution to do some software development for my Raspberry Pi and my Orange Pi. I like Mint but since I am starting over... is there any specific OS that would be easier to use than another when I am looking at Pi? Like if I wanted to build a new Armbian image. What are people generally using as their main OS for development? Edit: Build docs mention this, so maybe Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is cleanest if that's already being used by some devs? creates development environment on the top of X86/AMD64 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Thanks! Willie

Good day or night. Help me please. I have armbian. And there are - systemd. I do not know how to set up my usb keyboard to make it work with two displays at once. With tty1 and ttyS0 at the same time. To become a clone tty1 -> ttyS0. Tell me, how do I configure it?

I'm not sure whether this is the correct place. Sorry if it isn't and please move it to where it belongs - thanks! The problem is: in our community (forum.iobroker.net) came up problems with mounting to a nas by cifs. ioBroker is a smart home management, and a new module ("adapter") has been designed to provide automated backups to a nas. in most cases this works fine, but on some platforms with armbian it fails with the message: cifs filesystem not supported by the system I'm not that linux crack, but i tried to find out what could cause this, I found at this site https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175593855/ so…

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my OrangePi Zero with Armbian running with Armbien. I'm trying to setup a proxy with the IP address and port without any success... I need the proxy to be for everything (http, https, ftp..) I've tried everything I found on google : - editing /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10proxy with : Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy_server_address:port"; - editing /etc/environnement with : export http_proxy="http://proxyipaddress:proxyport" (also https, ftp, no_proxy) - editing visudo with : Defaults env_keep+="http_proxy https_proxy no_proxy" - uncommenting /etc/wgetrc where the proxy is enabled - adding in ~/.bashr…

Gents, i have the latest Armbian based on Debian Bullseye on a BananaPi M2 Berry running. It works fine, but i receive seldom updates to install... the sources.list: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free Compared to my older BananaPi M1 where A…

According to http://linux-sunxi.org/H2%2B#VariantsI should be able to differentiate between the H2+ and the H3 via the CPU SID. I have an Orange Pi Zero board with this output from /proc/cpuinfo Hardware : Allwinner sun8i Family Revision : 0000 Serial : 02004620161dea8a According to that site "the last byte of the first word" should be either 0x42 or 0x83 since the Orange Pi Zero has an H2+. Yet I am not finding 0x42 or 0x83 *anywhere* in "02004620161dea8a". Anyone know how to correctly identify the CPU variant?