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Hello guys! I'm new on the forum and I'll start using Armbian for my Orange boards, I was using Loboris images in Orange Pi Forums but I haven't seen any updates on them, so I decided to use Armbian for my boards. I have tested a little bit and everything works like a charm. Taking into account that I'm not an expert either in Linux or Programming I'd like to have a little board that I purchased one year ago which is the NanoPi board http://www.nanopi.org/NanoPi_Feature.html ,is it possible to port Armbian to that device? I haven't been able to use WiFi on the device or connect it to internet to update packages and so on. I also couldn't finish the "Kernel build" …

Hello. I created a HotSpot with my Orange Pi Zero H2 with the latest version of Armbian Bionic. Everything seems to work, but I need the access point to reserve dynamic IPs, ie for a device with MAC address XX.XX.XX.XX.XX I have to reserve and then assign a specific IP address XXX.XXX. XXX.XXX. Any idea how to configure this HotSpot? Do I have to add some commands to the hostapd.conf file or what? Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello folks, I have been searching a lot on this topic without finding any solution. I have a bananapi and an edimax ac usb stick. I set it up to be a hotspot a few years back, it was working quite well and I stored an image as backup. To date, I wanted to re-use it but surprisingly, restoring that image on an SD does not produce anymore a working hotspot...this is awful/awesome since nothing has changed in between. This image is running on kernel 4.x (I have read on the forum that on kernel 5.x hotspot has problems) and I have also tried with the latest armbian OS based on kernel 5.x I don't know what to do anymore, since hostapd starts correctly, acc…

I have a Orange Pi Zero 2W and want to install a headless ( minimal ) OS. I have tried Armbian 25.5.1. I have an Ubuntu box and I have attempted to write to the SD card using Armbian ImagerImager, by selecting an image from the app as well as downloading an image to use. In both instances, I get a FLASH failure. See the attached image for the diag link. Can anyone give me some insight?

Hello guys. Could you help me resolv a problem with orange pi (armbian)? The problem is the following: I created a small script in Python that read a I/O of orange Pi, that is read the state of a button(switch). If I execute it on terminal It works fine... But my problem is when I put in inicialization of SO(/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service ), the linux created a process correctly but when a press the button not happen anything. root@orangepizero:~# ps -aux|grep press root 1306 83.7 1.9 11268 4852 ? Rs 18:54 0:38 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/sbin/press_button.py SO of Orange Pi Zero: Linux orangepizero 5.10.21-s…

Hi, I am currently working on a OLinuxIno A20 limeX system which works in read only mode. I use the code I developped here: https://github.com/lauhub/debian-to-readonly I have small problems with armbian evolutions, since it uses, creates and modifies some files in some directories that should not be modified according to this page. Example of files : /etc/init.d/armhwinfo (modifies permissions of /etc/logrotate.d/armhwinfo) /sbin/fake-hwclock (creates /etc/fake-hwclock.data) /etc/update-motd.d/40-updates /usr/local/bin/armbianmonitor (modifies /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/soctemp) I can easily disable these files for my purposes, but I would be gla…

Hello! I wanted to install the Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal / IOT to an Ordoid HC2 (using the XU4 distro). Download ok - sha hash is ok - balena etcher ok - startup - ok. Problem: When I log in the first time with "root", the "1234" as first password is not accepted. Also, PUTTY warns that ths ssh of the armbian uses only "Diffie-hellmann-group1-sha1" which (for PUTTY) is a bit unsecure. Any idea about the password issue?

I am wondering if anyone else has had any success getting Armbian installed on a Banana Pi M5. I'm definitely a noob at this. After thinking the first M5 I tried it on was perhaps defective, but after trying on a second M5 I had the same result, board will not boot and the Green, Blue and Red lights on the board are all solid (not blinking). I'm afraid I may have bricked both boards. I used bpi-copy to flash the on-board emmc and did not receive any errors in the process. I am unable to boot from emmc or sd card at this point. I tried flashing the SD Card with Debian Bullseye and then on another attempt Ubuntu server (both images had worked previously) but to no ava…

Hallo my odroid C2 shutdown during the night. i can see it always on the next day, when the ssl connection is disconnected. Is there any log file, where i can see, if there was any problem? thank you

hi: I have old allwinner H2/H3 boards which work very stable with armbian jessie. although I can still get debian jessie packages, I found armbian jessie packages are gone from apt.armbian.com. is there any place I can sync these armbian jessie packages? thanks a lot for your help!!

Does it make sense? I would like to use the mainline armbian kernel on a custom minimal Buildroot image to use on a orange pi zero. Buildroot because of its lightness and armbian because it has Opi audio drivers and codec that doesn't seem to be included in Buildroot default kernel. If this is possible, could you help me with the configuration of Buildroot to use armbian as kernel?

Problem of top priority of Armbian_5.40_Orangepipc2_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.14.15_desktop edition After it sticks to OrangePI PC2 Languege support. I have a favor to ask. All languages by which Languege support is besides English at present. The situation that it can't be used in the following error. org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.85'}): org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages In Languege support, Japanese, they seem able to establish it, when it is, the back, Mozc, install. It'll be in order to use it mostly. By this, most users. OrangePI PC2, mostly, they seem able to use…

Hello- I'm looking to marry free and open (as possible) software and hardware into one inexpensive system. I'm in over my head so apologies in advance if I'm asking silly stuff. I did check the basics on here and have been lurking. At any rate I've been messing around with the Lime 2 and haven't had much luck getting Parabola to boot into LXDE... or any GUI at all actually. I thought I'd try Armbian as the Debian Kernel has been blob-less for a while now. I really, really like it so far. I am using Mainline, just want to make sure I'm running all free software if possible. I have checked for non-free stuff via: dpkg-query -W -f='$…

My armbian is now very strange, I did not bind IP SSH and Pagoda Win software can login backstage, the same computer another browser login, enter the account number and password is correct, always say the account number or password error there are 5 times, cell phone connected to the same network can open Pagoda backstage login interface, enter the account number and password is correct, also prompted error. What is the problem?

hi to all how can I change the armbian logo in bootsplash? I've searched for it in this forum and saw some similarity but that not solved my problem. I enabled the bootlogo=true in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and after that the logo appears in boot instead of texts and that's fine but I want to change the logo. also in boot.cmd I found this: if test "${bootlogo}" = "true"; then setenv consoleargs "bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash.armbian ${consoleargs}"; fi changed the "bootsplash.armbian" with some bitmap file but after doing mkimage to create boot.scr, the logo went missing and texts are back. searched in file system for "bootsplash.armbian" and found thi…

Hi there, I am using SD Card Copier on Raspbian to copy one Raspberry microsd card to another (can be smaller than original card) and it works great. But when I used it to copy armbian microsd card to another microsd card, another microsd card is unable to boot. Any idea what can be wrong? I love this approach because I am able to copy original card to smaller card but unfortunatelly Armbian OS is not able to boot (on the other hand Raspbian boots ok). When I use Win32DiskImager to copy Rasbian and Armbian, both new cards boot up successfully. Any idea please how can I use SD Card Copier installed on Raspbian to copy microsd card with…

Trying to download armbian for rockpi-4a, following the link https://redirect.armbian.com/rockpi-4a/ on https://www.armbian.com/rock-pi-4/ In one case, this resolves to https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/dl/rockpi-4a/, which shows an empty directory except for an archive subdirectory that is empty too. clicking around through the armbian/dl folder, this seems to be only empty directories for any board. In another case, the redirect resolves to https://minio.k-space.ee/armbian which just returns XML gibberish.

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…

Hi there, I've recently flashed armbian on my sd card for my odroid c4. At some point I may have restarted it and it is no longer booting. When I plug in the odroid it is stuck on the boot screen with the spinning symbol. I used the latest desktop version armbian jammy when setting up. I am unable to flash over this on the sd card and it is not able to be formatted by windows. I tried diskpart etc but nothing seems to be working. Can anyone help me out? Thanks -R

Hello all I have a many questions, but I will start off with the 2 I need to be helped on. 1: The Le Potato needs butter and sour cream. HAHA I has to say it... I am running the newest flavor of Armbian created in the last few weeks (Armbian 22.08 Jammy XFCE Kernel 5.10.y, Size: 1263Mb, Updated: Aug 30, 2022). I am new on to a non Pi bd so forgive me on the differences. After loading imaging and updating (or not) the board any time I try to do a full shutdown, all it does is reboot. After I get this to work I will work on my other issue below. 2: I would like to use this as a replacement for Pi 3A+ on a remote solar powered weather station …

I'm currently running Armbian Ubuntu Xenial Server on a Cubietruck, it works very well, thanks for all the effort! I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 3, installed some of the available images and found them kind of disappointing. The RPI2 and RPI3 both support ARMv7, which should make it reasonably easy to run Armbian Ubuntu images on it. Any chance of getting RPI2/3 support in the future? I would be willing to test work. Thanks!

Has anyone managed to get armbian running on the Allwinner T113-s3? I've been looking into getting it running and there's really no alternatives to Tina linux that I can find. Looks like it works with AWBoot and XBoot as a bootloader so it shouldn't be impossible. I'm completely new to this so if anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated. 😄

I would like to run Armbian on my multi boot PC. i came across a video on how to install Armbian on an X86 PC. How you have to use Gnome Disk to Restore Image to your drive. Does anybody know if it would work correctly doing that on a multi boot PC? I know I would need to update Grub afterwards for it to show in the list.

Good day. Yesterday I downloaded the latest Armbian version for the ASUS Tinker Board S and flashed the built-in eMMC (with Etcher Balena). The software works fine, but - the SD card is not mounted as mass storage, the file manager THUNAR does not recognize it. also lsusb does not recognize it. - a plugged USB- flash-stick is not mounted by the file manager THUNAR, although lsusb lists it. Ist das Problem behebbar? Is the problem fixable? The USB stick of a wireless mouse is recognized and also connects to the conputermouse. Regards Karl Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) …

Hello all, Has anybody tried to run armbian on VM8650 or vm8880 cheap chinese netbook like THESE I found Debian running on them like THAT but the project is old now (2012) and I would like to have up to date linux and python. Anybody concerned?, possible ? thanks for yr help? Kind regards Pascal

Hello. I saw all topics about armbian on Q8, Q88 tablets, but some of them are dead with no success, some say, that it is working somehow for someone. I understand, that armbian more tended to be for boards, but come on! There is a huge pile of tablets, that uses same processors, memory, wifi and other chips, and there is a sun5i-a13-q8-tablet.dtb in /boot/dtb of an image of armbian. So, I compiled custom Armbian image using olinuxinoA13 configuration as there wasn't any for q8-tablet. Wrote or burned it with USB Image Writer (I'm on Linux Mint 19 Cinamon) on SD card, mounted it, edited ArmbianEnv.txt line disp_mode=800x480p60. Put SD in tablet, pushed on button... s…

Hi, I'm running a FriendlyElec CM3588 board, really enjoying Armbian, but the CPU fan does not work whatsoever. It's meant to be powered from the 5V outlet marked FAN (close to MASK button). I replaced the fan with another one, same result - so hopefully it's not the hardware at fault. I never dug into fan control on Linux, anybody knows what to do?

Hello everyone, Over the past year or so, I've been getting back to my utilite pro board that bought quite a while back. After asking a few things to Compulab, and figuring out some of the bad download links to get their latest resources, I could finally upgrade to their latest Ubuntu build, that was based on 12.04. So not so recent. I am not the most aware user when it comes to arm devices, but a page on the Debian wiki pointed out to running buster on the board. Then, I came across the armbian ecosystem, and thought, well, I'll give it a try. Kudos to the work done. This looks impressive. The past days I've been trying to co…

Hi forum. I have a board on allwinner 64. I can compare that video playback in a browser on a 5.4 kernel is better than on a 5.10.89 kernel. the browsers are the same from the repository. can anyone tell what this is related to?

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…

Hello! For some weeks now my BPM1 behaves a bit strange concerning video output. I used to connect my Banana to my monitor via a HDMI-DVI cable, which worked well for a very long time. Now, when I reboot the system, my monitor says "no signal", when I use that cable, as it does also when I use a pure HDMI-HDMI cable. The only way to make the Banana's video output work, is by using a HDMI-DSUB converter. But here comes the even stranger mystery: after I booted the Banana, using that converter, I can change the cable to whatever I want: HDMI-HDMI or HDMI-DVI, they both suddenly work again! But if I reboot the Banana again, not using the H…

Hello I'm a newbie and want to start my tour with my odroid c2 for the beginn i want to install a vnc server. So i tried to setup the port 5901 tcp (opoen/free) if i try ufw allow 5901/tcp i get ufw not found if i try iptables -a ........ dport 5901 i get dport not found So my question, is there any firwall on the default system? Thank you a lot

Hi, first of all, a great compliment to the makers of armbian, really good job you're doing! I installed legacy ubuntu trusty for pcsuino3-nano on my pcduino3 (not nano) and everything works fine. First i tried the vanilla version, but i could not manage to get UART2 (ttyS1) to work, so i switched back to legacy where everything with UART2 works properly. Maybe someone knows how to get ttyS1 working with the vanilla kernel on pcduino3 with that image provided. But I'm happy with legacy kernel for now. Now to the question, what i like better with vanilla is, that there's no preinstalled desktop-environment. I am using the pcduino3 headless as embedded d…

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I'm spending some time on one of those famous Q8 tv boxes (ENY Q8, VSmart Q8, etc...) which sports the rk3288 soc I started with recent u-boot and kernel releases. Rockchip provides a recent u-boot (late 2017) and an LTS 4.4 kernel on their rockchip-linux github account. I compiled u-boot (from here) using a the device tree source from DengueTim (available here, in arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-q8.dts). I had to enable the serial driver though, because the device tree is "kernel flavour", instead u-boot wanted explicitly the serial port in "chosen" section. Compilation goes fine and u-boot boots from the SD card, prints Model, Ram and MMC infos on …

Hello everyone, new ARM user here, but long-time GNU/Linux user for about 25 years. I'm trying to install a (preferably debian based) distribution on a newly acquired ARM laptop, a Samsung "galaxy S book" model SM-W767V - this machine is based on qcom's "Snapdragon 8cx" SoC. When i try to boot a generic image (assuming the BIOS/UEFI lists it in the boot menu) it either freezes or reboots at a specific point during the boot process. Where it crashes is always consistent for a specific image, but can differ across different images. The Armbian ones make it past the bootloader and crash at some point during the kernel boot. Has anyone had …

Greetings! My first foray into Armbian. Apparently the Link Star H68K is hardware equivalent to the Hinlink H68K. I'm trying to install one of the community supported Armbian images (Debian Trixie, Ubuntu 26.04) for the Hinlink onto a Link Star H68K, using the RKDevTool from the Seeed Studio wiki. And failing. The only image that loads into RKDevTool is the Lubuntu 20.04 from the Seeed Studio wiki. It's just a tad out of date. Any pointers on getting a more up-to-date OS installed would be most welcome. AFAIK my device is OG, not V2. I've also tried booting from TF card, but the device refuses to boot at all wit…

Hi, As I have quite unpopular mobo, I am playing with armbian alone with sbc like in topic I am on macos, I created a docker container with ubuntu, I cloned armbian project there and I was able to run ./compile.sh I had some errors but I was able to fix them but now I really stuck after some options selection (depending which way I choose) I am always ending in same place: [ .... ] Extension being added [ sunxi-tools :: added by main.sh:381 -> configuration.sh:178 -> config/sources/families/sun7i.conf:1 -> config/sources/families/include/sunxi_common.inc:1 ] [ o.k. ] Extension manager [ processed 3 Extension Methods calls and …

Good afternoon! Who started Armbian on Sunvell R69? I ran it with the settings of beelinkx2.bin. There is no Wi-Fi and the processor heats very much, more than 77. We had to reduce the maximum frequency to 1008 mhz and memory to 408 mhz. With settings orangepizero.bin I immediately get a problem with the video. Does anyone have the necessary settings for the Sunvell R69 Thank you.

Can anyone directed me how to install Armbian on my Utilite pro im a total beginner tia

I'm thinking of buying a WindowsCE/Android Netbook that uses a WM8650 processor and want to install Linux on it but the only images I could find were 10 years old ;/ If a stock image won't work then how hard would it be to compile it for the WM8650? I'm a complete newbie so please explain as if I'm a kindergarden dropout :)

Hello Does anyone know how to toggle GPIO output at boot / power up as an overlay or similar? I have seen only examples that show GPIO in function and I didnt find much information how to toggle GPIO out function. Basically I would like to be able to turn LCD back light on when the board is booting and than to be able to control the brightness. (That I can do after the Linux is up and running) but before the Linux is up I still want to be able to control the LCD back light. Can anyone help with that matter?

Hello all! Not sure if anyone saw this at all or not but the latest debian (11) now includes the panfrost and lima drivers! https://wiki.debian.org/PanfrostLima If I'm reading things correctly the needed bits and pieces (as well as a recent kernel) are in the packages "libglx-mesa0" and "libgl1-mesa-dri". Thought I would give this a go on a now (somewhat old-ish) Odroid XU4 device. It uses the mali t620 graphics chipset which I believe is in those panfrost drivers. I used the image file "Armbian_21.08.1_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_5.4.142.img.xz". I did notice that the older kernel in that image (5.4.x) did not seem to detect anythi…

Hello, I have recently setup Armbian on my Orange Pi Zero 2W for a project I am working on. Everything works great so far but one thing I have noticed is that permissions feel much reduced to my user account. I require sudo to do basically everything from create a file in the home folder to use apt. This feels very different from the feel of the Raspbian install on like a Raspberry Pi. Is there any way I can change the user permissions so I won't have to use sudo for everything? Its been a bigger problem for a project I'm using Clion for where files are synced between my laptop to the pi using SFTP and Rsync but I constantly get errors about unable to create o…

hello, i just installed Armbian for Odroid C2. i have a simple script located at /home/tung/pixx.sh the script is "feh --quiet --fullscreen --borderless --hide-pointer --randomize --slideshow-delay 30 /media/odroid/38C1-602E/*" so it just opens my usb drive and starts a slideshow. nothing fancy. i have tried rc.local and cron as seen here but my script refuses to auto run when i boot up https://linuxtechlab.com/executing-commands-scripts-at-reboot/ if i manually type in terminal: sh /home/tung/pixx.sh then it works! i have same issue with Ubuntu Mate and Diet OS. so at least i am consistent with my mistakes :-D please advi…

Hello, I'm a novice Armbian user (I deployed a number of $8 Rockchip 3328 SBCs as security monitors which for the last few months have been working just fine). I have six identically configured SBCs that I have been regularly updating - about once every few weeks, I run 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt upgrade' just to make sure the systems have the latest updates to Armbian and the various software packages I depend on. Up until yesterday, updates were working just fine. Yesterday, I tried to update the SBCs, and all six threw the same errors during 'sudo apt update'. The errors are: E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com bionic R…

Is there a way to share my Armbian screen with another computer, like I can do early with Ubuntu? I have my Armbian machine in one room, and I need to be able to control whatever is running there from my other computer in a different room. I can do this easily with Ubuntu's screen share option. How can I do that with Armbian? Peter

hello guys !!! I want to make a backup of my sd card with armbian and other installed on it . In windows not possible because the ext3-4 format of the card . In ubuntu I can see the armbian file system into the card but not copy because I don't have permission So , I put again the card into my orange pi and I type sudo su and then password . I tyoe also sudo -s but nothing . Pratically some folders are not "visible" Do you have any suggestion? ciao Walter

Hi I just installed Armbian Sid Budgie - rolling, and everything was fine. After the normal "apt update" "apt upgrade" and reboot all application icons in the main menu disappeared (only questionmarks left "?" ). How can i recover/restore them? Altering Budgie Desktop Settings "Icon" or "Built-in Theme" didnt help...

Hi, there is something wrong with the configuration of your server. If I try to connect to http://armbian.com/I get the nginx wellcome page. You have to forward the traffic to www.armbian.com

Hi, i've had armbian running on banana pi m1 and orange pi zero. Seems like selecting any application softy list does not seem to be installing anything on both devices. Am I missing something here? I used both of these commands by the way: sudo armbian-config armbian-config

Hello, It has been years that I am using armbian and I would like to thank all the developers that contributed to this project. It is a really amazing work. I am writing this topic to see if someone faced the same issue that I have. I am using the nanopi neo core + minishield with the following image : Armbian_5.75_Nanopineo_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.20. I am using the SSD as my root file system. When I boot this equipment, it works without any problem. After some time (it can be months or weeks or days), I can't access anymore the device using ssh or using the serial debugger. If I plug in an ethernet cable, th…

Armbian Stretch Is there an instruction on getting a graphical user interface on the orange pi one? Thanks.

Hi, I bought a OrangePi Zero, burned the latest image on a good SD card, and started it. I bought a hat with a video output, but I don't have the right cables yet. So... I'm trying to set it up without any display for the time being. It looks like the port 22 is not opened, or any other ports, depending on the nmap command I use: $ nmap -sS -O -PI -PT 192.168.0.15 Starting Nmap 7.50 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-06-01 07:33 ope Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 5.05 seconds $ ssh root@192.168.0.15 ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.15 port 22: Connection timed o…

I have setup an Orange Pi Zero with the latest Armbian Stretch to use as an Open Media Vault server and a Pi-Hole (with the Pi-Hole being used as a DHCP server). I installed both from the armbian-config software menu with no problems. However these days I've been getting at random times a very strange issue. I have my Orange Pi Zero set with a static IP address since I am using the Pi-Hole software as a DHCP server for my home network, the problem is that at what seems like at random times it gets a different IP address without me touching anything, the IP is something in the style of 2XX.XXX.XXX.XXX instead of 192.168.1.20 that I have set as static from armbi…

Is there an easy (as in a script or utility) way to install Armbian on the eMMC of a Le Potato? I dug through the forum and all the information was old and it seemed rather painful.

Ive downloaded the latest build of debian trixie here for opi 4 lts: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-4-lts/ However nothing comes up on the screen when i use the sd card. Is there anything special I need to change to get this to boot?

ALL is working, net via RJ45, WiFi on 5Ghz, Audio...(Yeeeees ! ) headphones and audio on HDMI, audio capture on Audacity, Teamviewer (I'm writing this on my PC via Teamviewer) Kudos for all people working on this project !

Hi all, I have a Rock64 running on the "official" image (at the time, according to the official Pine64 documentation) "Armbian Ubuntu Bionic XFCE Desktop". Recently I updated it but suddenly it stopped working. After rebooting, all the 3 LEDs were lit, ON all the time and that was about it. I thought it was some kind of SD card corruption because it couldn't load some files from the SD card after the update and before rebooting. The only thing that came to mind to fix this was to restore a backup I had from Dec 2020. So I restored it and it worked again! But guess what... after updating the 280 packages that had an update, it stopped working again. But this time it w…

Hi, Compiled image for Nanopi3 , Ubuntu Xenial Server, After booting, LCD backlight switches on, but no display. Need help to fix this. No Customization or kernel config change done, used defaults. Linux nanopifire3 4.14.96-s5p6818 #2 SMP Tue Jan 29 12:56:43 UTC 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux from dmesg: [ 2.532000] leds-gpio: probe of leds failed with error -16 [ 1.912000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 60x50 [ 1.920000] nexell,display_drm c0102800.display_drm: fb0: frame buffer device Thank You Sudhir

Hello, I was running Armbian on my cubietruck, I believe Bionic Ubuntu. I wanted to upgrade to latest kernel, so I did a - apt-get update - apt-get upgrade - ambian-config and selected the lastest kernel And that was it. When rebooting, I end up with a try to contact a tftp server. The cubietruck has an SDCard and an SSD. Is there an easy fix or do I need to reinstall it completely, please? If I need to reinstall, do I have to backup all data, or is existing data preserved? (Traccar installation) Regards, Tomte

Hi, I have trouble to update armbian with apt upgrade. (ARMBIAN 5.27.170320 nightly Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i) how to solve? [ 9 updates to install: apt upgrade ] New to Armbian? Check the documentation first: docs.armbian.com Last login: Sun Mar 19 20:01:15 2017 from peter-laptop root@orangepipc:~# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: armbian-firmware armbian-tools-jessie hostapd libvdpau1 linux-headers-sun8i linux-image-sun8i linux-jessie-root-orangepipc linux-u-boot-orangepipc-default…

I just installed armbian buster on my NAS (odroid HC2). Everything works perfectly. However, as debian bullseye has become stable and I expect this to happen for armbian also in the near future, I am thinking about how to do the upgrade. This is mainly because all my other boxes run bullseye and administration becomes a lot easier if all systems run the same version. In addition, I will have to do the update anyways at some point in time and therefor I want do it when armbian bullseye becomes stable. Reading through the forum I found out it is not supported. However, I am using debian now since woody and have done a lot of upgrades since then, I th…

Under the Download web page all the manufacturers ("Maker") are listed, but the company "Banana" is missing in that list.

Hi, I need your help I´ve a Beelink with home assistant and unfortunately the storage is full and now i cant access to home assistant or samba share to delete the files and reboot the BOX I access successfully with putty (root privileges) to my Box, but i can´t see the files to delete. There is some way to do this? @ - Sorry for my poor english. Thanks M8´s. Luis Belo

Hi! just want to share the experience. I'm using Armbian in an environment that cannot access the internet. So, NTP becomes a big issue, and I have to setup my local NTP server using Chrony. Things should be simple, but it just didn't work out. I stuck with this problem for a few weeks until I realized I'm trying to setup Chrony NTP server on a virtual machine. Then, I found this one on stackoverflow. https://serverfault.com/questions/1062023/the-least-bad-settings-for-chrony-as-the-ntp-server-on-a-virtual-machine It suggests how to setup NTP server on virtual machine, but I didn't follow through as I solved my problem by setting up Chrony NTP ser…

Dear Armbian-Enthusiasts! I would like to install Armbian with Virtualbox, so that I can run Home Assistant (HA) in a VM environment (Intel chip .vdi) - yes, no container. Would chose this image "Armbian 25.11.1 Minimal / IOT 6.1 kernel" (rolling release) Installing Virtualbox with: sudo apt install virtualbox Is this possible? Best wishes, Greg Links: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/ https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-5-plus/

I tried to apt update on my armbian xenial and it kacked on the Release file. Looking in apt.armbian.com/dists/xenial there is nothing. Did I miss something? If this is already known by all and I'm just stupidly behind the times my most sincere apologies! Chris

Hi Members, I've installed the latest avaiable image for my lamobo Ri (Debian GNU/Linux 8, Release 4.9.7-sunxi) from: https://www.armbian.com/lamobo-r1/ I need to set the overscan parameters for my display, but can't find the formal used file: script.bin Please by what files/procedures are the values found in script.bin during boot are now replaced? Or does someone knows a newer armbian image for my BPI-R1 ? Regards Wolli

root@orangepizero:~# apt update Get:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main armhf Packages [470 kB] Get:3 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/contrib armhf Packages [1,764 B ] Get:4 https://apt.armbian.com stretch InRelease [19.0 kB] Get:7 https://apt.armbian.com stretch/main armhf Packages [334 kB] Get:9 https://apt.armbian.com stretch/stretch-utils armhf Packages [6,376 B] Get:10 https://apt.armbian.com stretch/stretch-desktop armhf Packages [2,211 B] Ign:5 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian str…

does not Support .7z files I am using a linux laptop setup sd card

Hi! The Armbian_Orangepi2g-iot password is not "orangepi" the correct password "1234" I got error when boot [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-8c5...4235258.device. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /boot. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File Systems. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for File System Check on /dev/disk...8-df2014235258. [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-ttyS0.device. Welcome to emergency mode! AfterGive root password for maintenance I commented out /etc/fstab #uuiD=8c56592d-4e41-4bb0-9d48-df2014235258 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 and the first error disappear. But I can't resolve second problem (maybe ker…

Have problem with DTS file compilation. The utility armbian-add-overlay can not found Linux headers (Armbian Stretch kernel 4.14.14). Headers are success installed from armbian-config -> software. How I can indicate headers path for armbian-add-overlay?

Hi guys, the history before: I ordered 2x OrangePi3 and got them at 29/07/2019. The 1st one I've unpacked could not be flashed to another Operating System. Neither the images of the developer worked nor the armbian. I figured out, that the HDMI port and the SD card reader is buggy at that 1st device. Today I unpacked the 2nd OrangePI3 and armbian booted easily and rapidly into the SD card OS. I was able to flash the eMMC with armbian and I am happy, but not with the 1st one of OPI3. I hope that the manufacturer in china will exchange the buggy OPI3 for a working other one. To cut a long story short, the a…

Now that xradio has been enabled on kernel 6.x, I'm ready to upgrade my Orange Pi Zero that I've been keeping on 23.02 with kernel 5.x. With armbian-config I've unfrozen kernel/firmware updates and after apt upgrade and reboot I am on kernel 6.1.53 and wifi is working! But boot message says I'm still on 23.02, and apt says that armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero is being kept back. Now trying: $ sudo apt install armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero [...] Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been mo…

Hello, previously, after creating a patch file, (v24.11) I used to save it in the userpatches directory as zzzz_xxxx_whatever.patch to ensure it was processed at the bottom of the current patch list. But now, it seems that this no longer works, and therefore, I cannot apply the patch.zzzz_panel_mipi_dsi.patch thank you. here is the log file: https://paste.armbian.com/horamafuru Edit: tested with(trunk.239) latest armbian build( https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v25.5.0-trunk.239 with zzz-patch-test.patch here is the log file: https://paste.armbian.eu/joyalusado zzzz_panel_mipi_dsi.patch

armbian-config - wireless network connect, - AP (hotspot) in bridged or NAT mode, - freeze and unfreeze kernel and BSP upgrades, - edit boot environment, network, FEX, welcome screen items, - switching between available kernels and nightly builds, - enabling read only root filesystem (Ubuntu only), - set display resolution (H3 boards with legacy kernel), softy - TV headend (IPTV server) - Syncthing (personal cloud) - SoftEther VPN server (VPN server) - Transmission (torrent server) - ISPConfig (WEB & MAIL server) - Openmediavault NAS (NAS server) - PI hole (ad blocker) - MiniDLNA (media sharing) Welcome to submit / push …

Hello. I am trying to set static ip using armbian-config->Netowork->IP->Static. But all the times I set new IP and reboot the system, board restarts in DHCP mode. Any idea about what is happening?

I'm running Armbian Cli 23.02.2 Jammy with Linux 6.1.11-meson64 on my OdroidC4, I'd like to be able to boot from a USB3.0 SSD, (I'm aware that this board doesn't have SPI flash memory, so you should sacrifice a micro SD to host the system boot) When I run armbian-config and go to the option to "boot from SD - systemd on SATA, USB or NVMe" the process seems to complete all the steps without difficulty, at the end the process asks to reboot, the problem starts here, at perform the reboot the system never boots, it stays in a loop, the SSD flashes led light as if it had activity, the same my odroid c4 flashes blue led light in a loop, but the system never appears by ssh. …

Hi there. Is there any way to set hostname of freshly installed board with armbian-config not in menu, but from command line ? armbian-config --help gives some examples, but not for this case. And more generic question -- when I "burn" microSD image, first boot comes with questions about root password, new user, etc. Is there a way to do it in unattended mode ? E.g. with ansible. Thanks a lot in advance!

There is a bug (not really a bug...) in the copy process with rsync. Please add the -x option to rsync to copy the root file system to a SATA/USB drive. I have cifs/nfs filesystem from my main (file) server mounted and the installation tries to copy alle the network-drives to the local SATA/USB drive. I was wondering, why the hell the armbian-config says 1020MB to copy (around 3 min.) and after 1 hour it still was running rsync! Yes, it tried to copy hundreds of GB to the local 60GB SATA/USB drive! And... the script removes all extra fstab entries, so all network filesystem mounts are gone! Please, correct this bug!

I am using orangepi zero LTS board I have seen this happen with both Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepizero_focal_current_5.10.60.img and Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepizero_buster_current_5.10.60.img images, although this problem seemingly solved itself randomly in the focal version. I am not sure what is up with that, I am currently testing on the buster version. I am using the serial console for controlling the board (ttyS0) I have already downloaded "Desktop with browser and softwares" from armbian-config -> System After this the menu item changes to armbian-config -> System -> Enable Desktop If I go to this menu item, it askes …

There is a syntax error in the default created file. # armbian-config created source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Local loopback auto lo iface lo init loopback # Interface eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 no-auto-down eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp That's on stretch or jessie.

Hardware: RPi4B Image: Armbian_22.05.1_Rpi4b_jammy_current_5.15.36.img.xz armbian-config does not show "Hardware" option under "System". I used the best SDcard I have. The PSU works for everything I've plugged it into. I re-flashed the SDcard several times. And I tried some ways that I googled and some postings here. All to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.

I’m trying to use my tinkerboard to run a small 4tb nas. I have installed armbian stretch and have run armbian config, software>softy>OMV, when I hit enter the it says “loading installation info” and then the screen flashes and goes back to the softy page. Any help would be awesome, Thanks.

armbian-config has significantly changed in Bookworm/Kernel 6.6. It looks to me that its not reflecting the actual device settings. Please refer to the attached screenshot from /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Compared to Bullseye/Kernel 6.1.92 I see an additional line "fdt_overlays, where all the dtb settings from the new armbian-config appear, fdt_overlays=sun50i-h5-analog-codec sun50i-h5-i2c1 sun50i-h5-tve sun50i-h5-uart2 sun50i-h5-usbhost0 sun50i-h5-usbhost1 sun50i-h5-usbhost2 sun50i-h5-usbhost3 but they seem to not having any effect. In 6.1.92 this line does not exist. The real dtb settings are still in the line above overlay_prefix=sun50i-h5 overlays=i2c1 uart1 usbho…

When I check the eMMC from the Disk utility, it shows that it's normal. I can also boot the android distro that came with it normally. Help? 🥲

When executing script in version 20.08.14 Buster with Linux 5.4.72-odroidxu4 additional Data drive can't be mounted. The reason is that folder /srv/salt is not moved to new system partition. Please fix that. Damjan

Hi, have anybody idea what can cause this garbage layout in armbian-config ? It works fine but seems after install some things (I cannot tell what exact, I not use armbian-config often) I get this: (similar garbage menus I have in config tool used in oscam source) Thanks for any help /Tomi UPDATE: I connect monitor via HDMI and on monitor it looks perfectly, then seems this is problem of ssh/putty...but where?

I am going through the following when trying to install tvheadend: Then I see briefly (< 1 second)... followed by, for another < 1 second: and then it quickly returns to: I can repeat this over and over but the software doesn't get installed. df shows only 6% used in /. Any ideas? What can I do to find out why this happens? Is there a command line option to trigger this process manually where I can observe what it does? Many thanks, Chris

Hello, When we install armbian cinnammon, the eth0 ip is set default to 192.168.0.8. I cloned the installation and then the cloned conflicts with the source so I though to use armbian-config to change the IP adress. The ipv4 changed but I noticed warnings in/var/log/syslog : IPv6: eth0: IPv6 duplicate address.. It seems armbian-config does not update ipv6 or? What should be do, disable ipv6? I read it is not recommended at all.

Hi, I'm running the latest bionic image (nightly build) on my rock64pro. (I've tried with the stable build but it has the same result) uname -a Linux 4.4.166-rockchip64 #22 SMP Fri Dec 14 00:56:53 CET 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I've used armbian-config mayan edms 3rd party software installation option but it failed during the mayanedms/mayanedms container deploymentment. With docker events& turned on I saw the next message: standard_init_linux.go:190: exec user process caused "exec format error" I found a recorded issue in mayan edms gitlab and it looks this issue is still not resolved: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/may…

I have installed Armbian minimal on RockPi 4, but it can't recognise the armbian-config command: armbian-config: command not found login as: pi pi@192.168.0.234's password: ____ _ ____ _ _ _ ____ | _ \ ___ ___| | _| _ \(_) | || | | __ ) | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / |_) | |_____| || |_| _ \ | _ < (_) | (__| <| __/| |_____|__ _| |_) | |_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\_| |_| |_| |____/ Welcome to Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 4.4.192-rockchip64 System load: 0.35 0.09 0.03 Up time: 0 min Memory usage: 7 % of 985MB IP: 192.168.0.234 CPU temp: 57°C Usage of /: …

I am on an OrangePi zero plus H5: Linux orangepizeroplus 5.10.60-sunxi64 #21.08.1 SMP Wed Aug 25 18:29:57 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux Editing the dts via armbian-config, the sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus2.dtb is edited and compiled, while the board boots into sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31117 Mar 29 16:55 sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus2.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31121 Mar 28 16:39 sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus2.dtb.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31144 Aug 25 2021 sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus.dtb

armbian-config looks fine when I run it. However, its layout was broken under screen. Any idea how to fix it? Thank you in advance.

Hi, I have Armbian-Buster installed on my ODROID-HC2. And everything is working perfectly. But today I opened armbian-config and installed Pi-Hole, installed OK. Checked to install Radarr. Installed OK Checked to install Sonarr. Said it is not installed, the check is not marked, but it was installed and I can even see the /etc/systemd/system/sonarr.service file. OK. I want to REMOVE all three. When I open armbian-config and select the pi-hole or Radarr, the interface just blinks and return to the list, Nothing is uninstalled. Where's the log file so I can see what may be the problem ? …

Strange problem with armbian-config/softy/OMV But something similar has happened to me also with a simple update from armbian-config Steps to reproduce: 1. clean install of Armbian_20.02.1_Orangepi3_buster_current_5.4.20 using uart-ttl usb adapter as interface 2. I configure the network by wifi 3. apt update && apt upgrade -y 4. after the terminal update everything is still perfect and I can connect to ssh with WIFI and launch armbian-config 5. armbian-config/software/softy/OMV -> Install Results: After a coffee or two, I go back and find that the ssh connection has been closed and I can't connect. Notes: Enteri…

armbian-config seems to be updating every day on my system, which I suspect is unintentional. sudo apt list --upgradable Listing... Done armbian-config/unknown 25.2.0-trunk.116.1202.192010 all [upgradable from: 25.2.0-trunk.107.1130.212127] N: There are 12 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

Hi there, I am just starting with Armbian, installed on odroid c2 emmc card, all seems to work, but when I tried to install software via armbian-config/softy just when I hit that I got on the screen small error: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc: Warning: /etc/resolv.conf is not a symbolic link to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf It is disappearing after 2-3 sec and I can install software which works (at least omv which I wanted) but it is weird to me.

OS running from eMMC: Armbian Debian 12 Bookworm Image Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.87_Orangepi3-lts_bookworm_current_6.6.72_minimal apt updated and upgraded Docker-engine installation through armbian-config fails. Here's the log: Get:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [55.4 kB] Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease [59.4 kB] Ign:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Get:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRele…