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Unfortunately "apt-file" stopped working for packages in the Armbian repos, which seems to be due to the absence of "Contents" files. Can this please be fixed, or is it intentional for some reason?

Maybe you already know, but to be sure (you guys are most likely always swamped), the keyrings workflow has failed the last two runs with the same error, on April 8 & April 15... https://github.com/armbian/armbian.github.io/actions/workflows/generate-keyring-data.yaml ERROR: Unable to find debian-archive-keyring package URL from https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/debian-archive-keyring/download Thanks for all you do! Edit With the limited understanding I have of this, I extracted relevant code and just ran a check on my local machine, and it returned: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current …

When trying to rebuild the kernel, the image is not taking the updated kernel image: ./compile.sh BOARD=espressobin CLEAN_LEVEL=make-kernel RELEASE=trixie ..... -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 296665952 Apr 7 16:47 vmlinux.unstripped -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 220926 Apr 7 16:47 modules.builtin.modinfo -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 16667 Apr 7 16:47 modules.builtin -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 296215160 Apr 7 16:47 vmlinux drwxrwxr-x 23 root root 12288 Apr 7 16:47 kernel/ drwxrwxr-x 79 root root 12288 Apr 7 16:47 fs/ drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 36864 Apr 7 16:47 crypto/ drwxrwxr-x 22 root root 20480 Apr 7 16:47 lib/ …

Is there any proper complete cannonical documentation for /boot/armbianEnv.txt ?

Yesterday I started to have problems using the build environment. Any build I have tried fails with something as shown below. (https://paste.armbian.com/noloqaquqo) Today I updated vbox, reinstalled ubuntu git cloned master and tried again with the similar results (different loopx sometimes). Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🔨] The partition table has been altered. [🔨] Syncing disks. [🌿] Allocated loop device [ LOOP=/dev/loop3 ] [🔨] Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46…

Hello all, I am receiving this error while building the image: Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/loop0 have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes. I am . This happens in the partitioning phase (lib/functions/ima…

Hi, I can see that 6.8-rc2 and 6.8-rc3 have been released. How do they get integrated into the edge builds? I am eagerly waiting to see some patches to rk3588s. Gullik

https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/.meeting/devmeeting_2023-09-06T17_46_27.885Z-subbed.mp4

https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/.meeting/devmeeting_2023-07-26-16-06-33.mp4-subbed.mp4

Video 1. Checking Jira and GitHub tickets 2. Warming up for Khadas support 3. Changes on Allwinner group management

Video Subtitles What we did? This: 1. Check remaining from Jira tickets https://www.armbian.com/participate/ 2. Review issues https://github.com/armbian/build/issues 3. Review pull requests https://github.com/armbian/build/pulls

Video What we did? This: 1. Check remaining from Jira tickets https://www.armbian.com/participate/ 2. Review issues https://github.com/armbian/build/issues 3. Review pull requests https://github.com/armbian/build/pulls

I made a first round of testing, some manually: khadas edge 2, installed to eMMC, logs: https://paste.armbian.com/iviwutanag bananapi m2+, installed to eMMC, logs: orangepi lite2, logs: https://paste.armbian.com/awicabotod khadas vim1, installed to eMMC, logs: https://paste.armbian.com/ulopiziseb , maintainer needed khadas vim2, installed to eMMC, logs: https://paste.armbian.com/editiyaziv orangepi2e, installed to eMMC, logs: https://paste.armbian.com/ekuyaporil and some via auto-testing machinery. Most of images works: Spoiler We need to fix Rpi4, Jetson nano, perhaps o…

Video Summary: Just overview on the status of CI and discussion on known problems regarding upcoming release. We are pretty confident new build framework will be up to the job. On the board support level, still we need to do testing, try to bump boot loader on Allwinner devices, bump rockchip64 current to 6.1.y.

Video 1. Reviewing where we are with CI support 2. Challenges of upcoming release

Video 1. Progress of CI support - build matrix almost work. It could be integrated into production code, but we will do another week of polishing. - we have added on-demand cloud runners action to add additional 128 build runners when needed 2. Security concerns We talked about potential issues and how to improve that. A dedicated person, a CSO volunteer for Armbian project is most welcomed. There are issues in general and GitHub CI specifics, so understanding of those process is needed to understand or learn. @Contributor/Maintainer

Video 1. Progress of CI support https://github.com/armbian/os Changes: - release numbering changed from 23.05 -> 23.5 - we have two separate version configs. One for nightly, one for stable, so its easy to generate a new release. Full or partial - for a single board only. It automatically increment patch number when doing that. - all images are rebuild every run / night on 8 build clusters. - splitting testing related tasks from armbian/os to armbian/ci is planned for future - all currently enabled 3rd party packages are syncing also to stable repository. All those scripts needs to be feed with JSON which is still aro…

Summary: http://meeting.armbian.de/armbian.2023-04-01-14.57.html

Video Redesign board support packages CLI & desktop We focused great deal of time to debug and agree how to deal with board support packages. Changes will be added to this merge request XML / JSON generation to support CI XML/JSON development is also progressing nicely. BASH part is done, while there is some work around Python assembly Build framework 1st run configuration Ran out of time for this topic. @Contributor/Maintainer

Video 1. We have cycled issues that are opened and found out there is nothing super critical at this moment https://github.com/armbian/build/issues Most of are minor issues or small to mid feature requests. 2. First run configuration topic was skipped as key people on the topic were not on the meeting 3. We focus great deal of time on idea how to improve interaction with community and how to motivate people that use build system to help arranging documentation. As this is more or less our only option. Another alternative is that someone dedicate his full focus and check all feature. We checked "developers section" of docs and identifi…

Video Summary: 1. Changes on "about Armbian" An email will sent out to all people mentioned on new "about armbian" to confirm their presence as is, chose anonymization (forum nick instead of "first name l."ast name) 2. Armbian versioning and repository management - we are temporally going back to original versioning (as known from master branch) as its one step to far - repository management was already tested with previously mentioned revert. It is already done, but need cleaning and making PRs - we will drop DTB package and move dtb blobs to the /boot/ Short term to do: - matrix to gen…

Hello all, I discovered today (using Banapi-M5) with apt-file search 01-armbian-defaults.conf that this file is part of the deb https://imola.armbian.com/beta/pool/main/a/armbian-bsp-cli-bananapim5/ I tried to fetch the sources on bsp-cli on https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/packages/ It is indicated bsp-cli folder in the README but neither the directory exists nor bsp/bananapim5 folder that may provide the sources for the debian packages. I am a bit confuse how to contribute to add the headless support for example. It there an other git repository? Thanks. …

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I'm using 22.11.4 Bullseye on Helios4. 23.02.2 is available in dl.armbian.com (and mirrored) since Feb 18th. But an upgrade of my installation is not possible because apt.armbian.com/dists is from Feb 12th (all mirrors) for all supported platforms (not only Helios4). It could be that the problem is related to last year's problem discussed in https://forum.armbian.com/topic/19982-how-to-upgrade-to-2202/ (aptly?).

In order to get best possible support status, please help us with testings. This last testing phase is a final check to see if devices boots and if basic functions work. We can only fix minor issues, try to recreate or remove broken images, but its also good if we write down what is wrong https://www.armbian.com/bugs/ Deadline for submitting test report: February 24th Armbian has its own infrastructure for automated testings. But its limited so we need additional help with manual testings. Results: - release candidate testings. Images has been uploaded to: https://stpete-mirror.armbian.com/dl/ -> BOARD/rc/ Pu…

1. Checking the progress of Armbian-next Video: https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/ly7gbgZBTY1M4eiumUk6Gp357Jl0RV0h7usdUEGN5WcNKXNIwsOoNHbtoLbBeEje.KCku4wdAigfEI7pB Armbian Next Jira: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1451 @Contributor/Maintainer

1. Checking the progress of Armbian-next Video: https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/vq04OFykxpw7nGp8wJxKME7w8uNf1kMrwHRLldQLTCLJCT-zsZY8KP76aCknhBfN.JyvzRmfR9qulexM2 Slides: https://github.com/rpardini/armbian-build/blob/extensions/README.armbian-next.slides.md#update-feb-1st-armbian-next---general-changes Armbian Next Jira: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1451 2. Moving development related topics to GitHub Summed here: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1529 3. Questions around upcoming release Today is the code freeze. Actions: notify maintainers and pr…

Event -> Video (with transcripts and comments) 1. Merging NEXT (Jira tickets) 2. CI overview Summary: TBD

Event -> Video (with transcripts and comments) 1. Merging NEXT (Jira tickets) - many small fixes - windows build support (WSL2) - small machine support (smarter dependency handling) - better patch logging and logs in general - people contributing Focus on: - CI, aggregation, rootfs cache ( @Igor @rpardini) - testing, testing, testing (anyone) 2. Providing stable builds for main TV box image? We generally support this idea and builds can be enabled @SteeMan https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/targets.conf 3. None this week. Comments on all topics…

Event -> Video (with transcripts and comments) 1. Merging NEXT (Jira tickets / updated slides) We discussed progress and problems. Help is needed with: enabling CI developer perspective testing -> test all boot loader, old boot loaders, especially armhf images: cubox-i, odroids, clearfog, ... user perspective testing desktop (currently is broken?) 2. Encourage end-users to open bugs to Jira? Replacing https://www.armbian.com/bugs/ with instructions how to add a bug to Jira seems like a good idea. But this will be community managed without any obligation from Armbian team. Basically introducin…

Event -> Video (with transcripts and comments) 1. Checking the progress of Armbian-next. most of open bugs has been fixed. How to help? users? continue to test various variants -> open a ticket developers? focus on cleaning rockchip64 / media patches, focus into config/ section -> moving family and board hacks into extensions 2. Armbian short description We are still not unified. Most sane idea is to better divide Armbian as OS for end users and Armbian as a build system for developers / integrator / business users and name those two more appropriate. We couldn't unite on a nam…

Event -> Video (with transcripts and comments) 1. Merging NEXT (updated slides) We discussed progress made in past week (Jira Epic) and set limited expectations for following week due to holidays season. We will try to enable rootfs caching CI at first (which has to be compatible with master) and Docker image creation next (which probably isn't?) 2. Unifying boot process Most single board computers needs good overlay handling so moving them to complete generic image is likely / in short term not possible. We still can not count on DTBless or DT from u-boot only, well support from vendor SPI. If we want to move like everything to…

Event | Recording This weeks meeting topics: Merging of next generation build framework Primary goal is to understand benefits it is bringing as we all will need to sacrifice some time in order to review it, then merge and fix remaining bug. Despite our current system produces images, we have many bugs and dirty workarounds that this upgrade is addressing. The future of rockchip64 family Main goal is to make it maintainable again. GitHub development and review process Main goal is to motivate people to take more responsibility for reviewing and merging. Define clear rules. Conclusions: Everyone in…

Selected current kernel and Jammy (maybe Jammy not supported): [ error ] ERROR in function install_deb_chroot [ functions/cli/cli-entrypoint.sh:109 -> functions/main/build-tasks.sh:285 -> functions/main/build-tasks.sh:208 -> functions/main/rootfs-image.sh:77 -> functions/rootfs/distro-agnostic.sh:282 -> functions/rootfs/apt-install.sh:22 -> functions/logging/traps.sh:0 ] [ error ] Installation of linux-u-boot-nanopiduo-current failed [ nanopiduo jammy no sunxi ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2022-11-16 Release Planning Meeting Date: skipped, forum only - post concerns to this topic Release Date: 2022-11-28 2022-12-03 Release Coordinator: Igor Board maintainers @Contributor/Maintainer please check status of your board. Report a bug or try to fix it by the final release date. Developers, check if your contribution is recorded in Jira as otherwise it won't fit into the release log: https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/versions/10012/tab/release-report-all-issues 64 Issues in version 61 Issues done 0 Issues in progress 3 Issues to do Thi…

I searched the forum, but did not find anything...: I am creating my own Kernel configurations with Armbian, for example I want to observe the effect of 100Hz/250Hz/1000Hz on the timer on osnoise etc. Currently ./ compile.sh can result in two outputs: - Either a SD-Card-Image with one Kernel configuration - or some Kernel-files in "Output" I dont yet understand in their structure or what to do to activate them on an already created running System making it bootable I saw that Armbian-Config offers to switch Kernels, but this loooks more like a long list of standard-kernels from somewhere...how can I use this or a different tec…

Thinking about completely removing clubs. Other clubs that tvboxes are pretty much unused and latter could be migrated into unsupported forums. Clubs themselves can be confusing. They work similar to forums but have different arrangement of things. Also they partially lack of moderating options that common forums provide. Thoughts?

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2022-05-14 Release Planning Meeting Date: 2022-04-23 14:00 UTC+1 Release Planning Meeting Location: Armbian IRC Release Date: 2022-05-28 Release Coordinator: Igor Board maintainers: @Contributor/Maintainer Open / close bugs related to your board in Jira for your board and close them if they are resolved before release date. Record also bugs that were closed but they were not recorded to Jira (to have this info in release documentation) Bugs that are resolved change field "Fix versions" to "22.05". Optional select board and SOC. Everyone with Jira access: …

Was kind a painful to add 70 tags by hand one by one since invision refuses to deal with either spaces, tabs or line-breaks... anyway all supported boards got their individual tag. in bug tracker forums only those must be chosen, for some other forums tags are open but supported board tags are marked as recommended.

TLDR; If you would like to help us test desktop pul requests, please let us know what device would work, and any additional preferences. Desktop improvements really are another unique create. As you know we don't provide supported desktops, but we do make a like of nightlies, and there are contributors like @Rich Neese that really do a ton of work to make this stuff better. Another part of our improvement process is stronger peer review on pull requests before merging. This means we really need to start testing desktop images at the pull requests level.... Which we can gladly build images for PRs, just need community members will to download image…

As our projects grows in size and complexity it is getting more and more important to add additional measures to improve code quality. Code is added almost daily and therefore we have to do what is possible to improve chances that things doesn't break or have obvious bugs. Therefore I propose to enable additional conditions applied to the build framework master branch: - code must be submitted via a pull request - pull requests require at least one review and approval from another individual - all changes open requests resolved before merge. - in-line conversation on merge request has to be resolved before merge - commits pushed to ma…

The discussion here got me thinking, I thought at some point one of responsibilities of Board Maintainer was to keep the download page for their board updated? So I double checked the job description, and that's not on there now. Was that a simple oversight? Or maybe we changed policy about handing out WordPress access to all these new people to the project?

Seems like Armbian would be big enough to apply for this: https://www.fastly.com/open-source/

Release Candidate Code Freeze Date: 2022-02-14 Release Planning Meeting Date: 2022-01-29 14:00 UTC+1 Release Planning Meeting Location: Armbian IRC Release Date: 2022-02-28 Release Branch Link: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v22.02 Release Changelog: Spoiler Release notes - Armbian - Version 22.02 Bug AR-1101 DRM patch is failing on Rockchip AR-1079 Ubuntu archive redirector is not providing best service AR-1077 Fix RPi4 userland audio AR-1069 First login doesn't pick up correct shell AR-1065 Twitter forum registration is not working …

Per meeting, we're still trying to improve our responses to "unsupported' inquries. current thoughts * revise "invalid label" * focus on moving messages

We're using this library as the base to automating testing via power control in some of our SBC test farms. https://github.com/lanefu/sbc-gpio-pcf857x/blob/main/lib/gpio.sh It would be great to convert this in to a simple python3 class. Given we use this with various SBCs, I would recommend using https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess to continue to exec via the gpio shell command other than a native python gpio library. extra credit: create a REST API via flask extra extra credit: Add Swagger interface to REST API extra extra extra credit: react interface to REST API

In this thread @balbes150is making some accusations and I would like to see some more evidence. He is a moderator and I assume he understands that writing such things require some sort of proof. Or maybe he can write anything he want and mudslinging is ok at this forum?

I received an email notification same as title of this post 2 days ago. Just now I changed my password. But I thought I would make a post to see if anyone else might have been targeted (as I am a Moderator), especially any other Admins or Moderators. I am going to ping everyone I can think of (actually, I simply use the list here) below, but please add anyone else who I miss. @Igor @lanefu @Werner @TonyMac32 @SteeMan @soerenderfor @pfeerick @NicoD @JMCC @balbes150 @_r9

need to make config file paths command line arguments https://github.com/armbian/dl-router/issues/12

Maybe consider amending this to allow with some restrictions. Or define better as a 'hobby' business can appear commercial. The forum appears to be directed at hardware, but there may be potential for service. I for one am hitting a brick wall with coding some audio control hw and would like to hire someone to help. This seems like a place that might work for that.

Good job placing an intermediate level between 5 and 50 Euros - 20 is wonderful. I originally signed up for the 5 Euro auto pay. The 5 Euro auto pay works fine, then I get an invoice for the 15 balance ... humorous but tedious. I know you guys are working on such things so I thought I would report, hope this is the appropriate place to do so. But I get these emails saying I've paid but Igor hasn't picked it up yet. I gave it to ya, use it ;] So it looks like you still have something to adjust, it would be nice to just have the 20 come out of my account automagicly in one charge. With other systems where I have like issues I usually can…

Origin: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16933-armbian-config-rfc-ideas/?do=findComment&comment=119703 https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-638 Description: Our code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } armbian-config tool shall be refactored or as a modular framework rewritten from scratch. We are looking for both experienced bash scriptwriters as well as somebody who takes a overall look at task execution. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/config Skills required: Bash

Origin: Debian mailing list Description: Aptly tool for creating apt repositories has been unmaintained since 2019 and that the original maintainers are now looking for new people to replace them. We encourage everyone to read the issue below and consider if you can allocate time to maintaining aptly (processing pull requests, issues and so on) and if so offer to join the aptly-dev organisation on github. Destination: https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly/issues/920

A new saved action has been introduced. As you can see it will add reply as above lock topic add topic prefix "[Invalid] - " (if hidden) unhides topic

Origin: https://github.com/armbian/autotests Description: Having a reliable automated testing for boards is absolutely mandatory. While the tests working most of the time the reports are not as reliable as they should. Also the code could need some refactoring and cleaning. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/autotests Skills required: Bash

I stumbled across this topic which lead me to the idea: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16426-selling-helios64/?tab=comments#comment-115128 I strip it down to a few notes: create a new sub-forums trade/marketplace where people can offer spare SBCs for trade or sale and can create requests if somebody is willing to sell his board XY To participate users need to fulfill TBD requirements like number of days registered, posts, reputation... User must agree to rules in order to create topics which will state that Armbian staff does not and will not be involved in any way into trades. Armbian takes no resp…

Origin: https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/AR-235 Description: Add an option to code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } armbian-config to allow editing the device tree Destination: https://github.com/armbian/config Skills required: Bash

Origin: https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/AR-497 Description: While it is possible to customize Armbian images at build time using the code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } customize-image.sh script is not as comfortable as a chroot shell inside the image would be. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/build Skills required: Bash

Origin: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-315 Description: A while ago general GPT support has been added. Though it is not possible yet to use it within code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } nand-sata-install. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/sbin/nand-sata-install Skills required: Bash

Origin: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-200 Description: SBCs become more and more powerful and one of our long term goals is to enhance the desktop experience with Armbian. At the moment we only have @Rich Neese who spends a crazy amount of time to push this forward. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/desktop Skills required: Bash, dealing with configuration files of various desktop environments

At the moment some unsupported (EOS/CSC...) boards are mentioned in the bug tracker forums descriptions. I suggest to remove them and either move topics related to p2p or create a new forum that collects all unsupported topics

Origin: https://github.com/armbian/config/issues/120 Description: Recently our download mirrors were regrouped into continents. An option to select the best matching mirror group via code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } armbian-config would make it perfect. Destination: https://github.com/armbian/config Skills required: Bash

Aside from all the unheard user wishes we decided to create a new dedicated room for specific tasks with defined clear goals. Topic creation is limited to collaborators.

Under the Clubs page I saw a link for subscribing to a newsletter - I clicked it, it disappeared, nothing else happened and now the link does not appear again. LOL did I break something? Did I subscribe? ;]

After my last post I noticed the cute little tag 'Donator' was missing from my avatar so I went to re-subscribe and it shows conflicting info - if I roll over the blue badge top right it shows 'Subscription active' but in red in the middle of the box it states 'Subscription expired' and there is no where to renew it. Nothing clickable or obvious ... I had donated to the server fund, did that mess up the auto? I noticed there is a recent charge so I assumed it is still working? BTW, I think there should be an intermediate step between individual and corporate ... 5 Euros is nothing but 50 is more than I can do monthly. Can you add a 10 Euros / mo?

Jira is designed for that. We have far greater problem - who will deal with bugs?

This kind a bug tracker thingy has been created using the Pages feature of Invision (which we do no have atm). Just as an experiment.

Where can I correctly place information about systems that are build from the CSC configuration ?

I could swear I read this being discussed (even recently), but I'll be damned if I can find it right now. Have there been some recent changes? It seems only 1-2 days ago I could mark any post as the solution, but this seems to have gone away?

The current forum badges for subscriptions are very simplistic. They could be a bit fancier. Not much, just a bit so they do not look that crude anymore This is what I came up with In first place I though about some transparency but since there are multiple themes including a dark one available it needs to look decent on both. Also thinking about adding some further icons in the same design but they are not to be revealed to the public yet

At the moment there are two possible way to create and use predefined answers: canned replies and saved actions. Since latter also includes - besides adding a post reply - the option to hide/unhide/move/lock threads as well as manipulate the topic title by adding a pre- or suffix I suggest to get rid of canned replies. The downside of this change is that it is no longer possible for anybody, who has permission to do so, to create their own canned replies. However I barely notice anyone using this feature and the most common used canned reply is "missing armbianmonitor -u". Therefore not a big loss. This can easily be implemented as saved action as well.

Not sure if this is the right forum to report this but - dl.armbian.com is redirecting me to https://minio.k-space.ee/armbian/dl/espressobin/u-boot/ which is throwing an error: NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.dl/espressobin/u-boot/armbian/armbian/dl/espressobin/u-boot/163FA81E77EC23A1394e75a7-0234-4f85-9911-0a00ffd23a46

https://forum.armbian.com/guidelines/ I just dropped over this page by accident and I think this is the first time I have seen this since I registered I have my doubts that many actually reading those, last but not least it is a lot of text and most is already spreat around to places where it is actually important. So I suggest to simply remove the page due to lack of value.

Is there any statistics on the number of image downloads ? It is interesting to understand that there may be images that no one downloads. Perhaps then you can exclude them from the regular build and not waste resources on such images (models) by removing them from the build system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFrdyLc4g50 https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ Since we have now this nice quick start video I was thinking about making more videos in the future. Kind a video series "How to Armbian" which cover various topics around basic stuff. One idea that came to my mind to cover were serial consoles since they are in most cases the best way to debug and get an idea what is actually happen "inside". Another one was about going real quick about the different ways how to contribute (time, money, knowledge) Ideas for now: How to contribute? Using serial console for debu…

For the todo queue

There seems to be a major caching issue. Showing pending approvals which have been dealt with an hour before. Also color adjustments to themes are not being adopted. memcached is not the cause. Prefixes are gone for the moment and are replaced with traditional tags since the used addon is most likely abandoned by the author. Certain plugins break acp entirely when trying to upgrade them.

@Igor suggested to put this on jira since there is a related topic, so please study there : https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-230?focusedCommentId=10278 @balbes150

It is possible to add explanations to certain expression or acronyms. The example above shows the (in this case case-sensitive) expression OOB (you see it is "underdot'ed") with the explanation "out of the box" while pointing with the cursor on it. Do you think this is a useful feature and if so what acronyms could/should be added to be automatically highlighted? Ideas: dtc - device tree compiler dtb - device tree blob dts - device tree source IRC - internet relay chat sunxi - board family of Allwinner 32bit ARM SoCs sunxi64 - board family of Allwinner 64bit ARM SoCs XU4 - Odroid XU4 OPi - Oran…

I will add more information from time to time depending how big the impact for users will be either here or in announcements equivalent topic. Users with moderator privileges are now displayed correctly Started to move Announcements forums from tags to prefixes, also added a new one there

At the moment there are three sub-forums within common issues: Reviews, Research guides & tutorials and Hardware hacks. Those forums obviously do not receive much attention and the reason might be they are not that present like other forums (and surely new tutorials are not that often posted like issue complains ). Anyway I was thinking about how to bring more attention to these topics and reduce the amount of sub-forums the same time. What I came up with was the following idea: All topics within those forums will be marked with an appropriate prefix, mostly like the forums were called at the moment (so Review, Research/Tutorial and Hardware h…

I would like to re-enable the Governance_Maintainer page at the docs which has not been used and maintained for quite a while now. https://github.com/armbian/documentation/blob/master/docs/Governance_Maintainers_TBD.md From time to time I already adjusted the list to what I believe fits the current situation but I wanted to hear from you all what you think about it or maybe even why it should not receive attention/maintenance.

At the moment there are three different saved actions that kind of cover the same thing: Complain about missing data I suggest to merge those to one standardized reply that covers missing data and armbianmonitor -u as well as tips. Something like this (with a bit of additional formatting): Will unhide and add this reply.

The registration terms containing: While the regulation as it is makes sense it does not being in the registration notes since the chance that a users registierung him-/herself just to become a moderator is decently low. These should be more kind of rules that members have to agree which are elected to become a forums moderator. Therefore I suggest to either remove those entirely or rewrite them to descripe what the rights and duties of moderators are and integrate this information into the common terms.

Not much to say about that. Do some of these mostly proprietary IM even still exist? I suggest to replace a few of those with more adequate solutions like IRC, Matrix or Mastodon and threw out AIM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo. Opinions?

I also noticed that the subforums SD card and PSU issues and the garbage collector Board doesn't start are kind of redundant. Should those be merged too?

For the Amlogic S905(x) forums add S912 and S922 to it? I don't think there is a need to divite those into the other supported boards.

Do ourselves a favor and add a mark to the TV-Boxes forums that states that those "boards" are mostly community supported ONLY.

Since some H6 boards are marked as officially it would make sense to move H6 forums from Development to Bugtracker and remove the WIP hint on top.

Since - in my eyes - at least - there is a likelihood of confusion regarding the "Supporter" tag of members that actually (recurring) donating to the project. People could think "Supporter" means staff member that actually support people with their issues. The real staff rank, Moderator and Administrator to say, is "hidden" in their individual profiles. Since I like the idea of flat hierarchy I do not suggest to make the actual staff visible in forum postings but simply rename the Supporter to something like "Donator" to make it clear that these people donated to the project but are not necessarly involved into it. Tell me what you think,

This will be the Moderator counterpart to the Announcement thread I made about the same issue where I asked for help from regular forum Members. In this thread, I will discuss methodology I developed to deal with these sort of spammers, once someone has Flagged such post(s). Humor But first, some humor. Does anyone remember this guy? Anyway, that old infomercial kept playing over and over in my head today while I was working on this. I think we stumbled across some of his students! OK, carrying on... What Not To Do First thing to probably point out, let's not simply edit out these links one by one as we come across them. T…

A few of us have been experimenting with this the last week or so, seems to work well. But I wanted to bring this to the attention of all the rest of longer term Mods like @chwe @balbes150 @NicoD @TonyMac32 @JMCC (please tag any others I may have forgot) as well as site level Admin like @lanefu and of course @Igor. As a new Mod I often feel like a Level 1 Tech Support. Or perhaps better stated, "triage." Which I figure is our purpose, to "take care of" as many low hanging fruit as possible (or at least sort to correct place, maybe adjust title, tag, ask OP for further info, etc.), in order to free up time/attention of Devs and more experienced users. I try to…

In the TV boxes section, it is quite calm and there is enough of the standard option. If the user has the first message on the forum, all messages are put in the moderation queue. If there is at least one approved message, the user can write directly to existing topics. If I see that his messages are spam or violate the rules, I delete them. As far as I understand, for those who have few messages (3-5- ?)- creating a new theme is put in the moderation queue. So far, there have been no problems. I read all messages in the " my " section and can see where there are hidden ads and delete such messages. If you have any suggestions or comments about my work, I am ready to list…

Hiya everybody, Could I add a Reply to the drop down menu? If not, could somebody put this in there for everybody else, please... Thank you so much....

When using Discourse (forum software) on other forums, it will pop up a little box telling you when someone has made their first post, and encouraging you to welcome them. We don't have that exact same functionality here, but it is very easy to mouse over their avatar and see that it is their first post (Content Count 1). I sort of got into the habit of welcoming new people (in other places where that's encouraged) as I have always felt that the idea of "Community" is very important in F/LOSS. I even did it here, but only couple times so far. Just to try and make new people feel welcome. If we are lucky, maybe they will stick around, and eventually, contribute…

Thanks for creating a new topic! I am having problems accessing it:

As I am a new Moderator and I am unfamiliar with this particular board software (apparently called "Invision Community"), I went looking for some docs... Came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invision_Community. The first thing I noticed is that it is proprietary software. Which I think is very out of character for a F/LOSS project at least alluding to the name Debian. Which carries a number of connotations, at least in my mind... Which is a whole another discussion, however... Secondly, a quick read through that Wikipedia article quickly reveals a number of documented cases of changing things on their users, going back on their wor…

Hi Igor, I have slowly started to 'moderate' this forum. One of my first thoughts are as follows: since Armbian is all about a single software set for many, many hardware platforms. Why not structure the forum into Hardware and Software and Projects (hard-and Software combined issues). 1. Hardware 1.1 Supported SBCs. >> 1.11 ARMvX >> etc. 1.2 Unsupported SBC >> 1.21 TV Boxes >> 1.21.1 TV1 >>. etc. 1.3 etc. 2. Software 2.1 User Manual …

Granted! Thank you. Great! Forum is our common problem and it should be moderated according to that. We created some https://forum.armbian.com/terms and https://forum.armbian.com/guidelines. Read and use them, change if needed and keep in mind that people usually don't read them ... remember when you read the small print last time? I have no intention to lead forum moderation - tell you what to do, but I will tell you if you went to far ... I expect the same treatment - I am just a forum user. (even I do have the same power and more as you do). There are topics which need to be sorted out - merge or move - and there are important top…

I also like to keep things in order, but forum and this project is too big for me since a long time ago. Keeping this thing organised can only be done together. I appreciate your willingness to do your share! #armbian channel is unofficial for one very banal reason It doesn't have a recording device -> irclogs.armbian.com I tried to fix this once - by reaching out to IRC server staff to acquire OP status which is needed to install a bot, now its years ago, but failed. Then this task simply faded off the radar. It has been more than 25 years since I was installing IRC bots so I also feel a bit rusted doing that ... if you can fix this, #armbian can be…