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Many of us are using Armbian not just on ARM single board computers but also on servers (bare metal & virtual). We use our builds since we trust it more then Debian, Ubuntu, not to mention other distributions that are recklessly updating and one ends up as an OS tester and not OS user. Personally I use Armbian Jammy on Ryzen 9 workstation with great success. My primary use case is development / productivity. For the road I used to have 13" Dell notebook which recently suddenly died. It was out of warranty so I had to get something new. After some testings of various devices I settled with 12th Gen Intel i5-1240P powered Lenovo. Then I tried many general purpose distro…

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Igor

July 30, 20251 yr

This main thread has been locked. Thanks to the Armbian team, we now have our own Kobol club (kinda sub forum) dedicated to our products (Helios64 & Helios4). So now you are encourage to create individual threads for new issue, discuss feature, share setup, etc... This will help to improve overall readability. Note : Before asking a question please insure the information is not already available on Helios4 Wiki or addressed in a previous post in this forum. Latest Build : Check : https://dl.armbian.com/helios4/ Archived Build : Check : https://archive.armbian.com/helios4/archiv…

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Werner

November 12, 20205 yr

Hello everyone, I would like to build an image for the Rasperry Pi 1, 2 and Zero. I could not found a download for a RPi on armbian.com. Then I saw that `rpi` is disabled in `/lib/configuration.sh`. Even when enabling it, I get an error during build, saying "[ error ] Building failed, check configuration" . I wonder why the Raspberry Pi is not supported. Is it due to its closed hardware? Thanks!

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perlian

March 4, 20224 yr

Dear all, thanks for the work of you, to provide us with the Armbian Images for our arm-based boards. BUt i've a small issue, starting the last Image for Odroid XU4. If I write the Image to a SD-Card and start the XU4, all Things run well. When I write the Image to my eMMC-Card (original Hardkernel, 64GB), the XU4 doesn't start. Normally, it's not such a big Problem, but there is a massive speedup, using eMMC with XU4. How can I get Armbian startet, installed on an eMMC? Many thanks for your Support, Burkhard

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windumasta

February 11, 20188 yr

Hi Igor, Hi Armbian team, I wanted to give a short teaser of an upcoming board I have been developing. The board will be launched through a crowd-funding campaign in couple of weeks. Codename : Helios-4 I'm sure the heatsink will give you some hint The board has been build around the Marvell Armada 388 SoC / SoM from SolidRun. So part of the design is inspired from the Clearfog dev board. Actually the SolidRun helped me on the PCB layout to make this little guy reality. Here the main specs : - dual core A9 @1.6 GHz (max 2Ghz) - 1GB DDR3 (2GB optional) - 4x SATA III - 2x USB 3.0 - 1x Gigabit …

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malvcr

October 1, 20188 yr

The UN-official, UN-supported, UN-timely, UN-derrated... Exynos 5422 MEDIA TESTING SCRIPT Yes, the script is somewhat untimely, because it comes when including kernel 4.14 in Armbian next images is getting troublesome. And underrated, because this old SoC seems to be losing the focus of attention in favor of some more modern powerful ones. But it is still a great SoC, and it is worth trying to get the best out of it. The script will provide the installation of all the libraries and system configurations necessary for GPU accelerated X desktop, Chromium WebGL,VPU decoding/encoding acceleration through MFC, and GLES 3.1 / OpenCL 1.1 support. …

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Stylxd

April 6, 20206 yr

Hello, I have been struggling with this for a while, found some replies on the other communities but I simply cannot get Wireguard up and running on my Odroid HC2 with Armbian. Running... echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable-wireguard.list printf 'Package: *\nPin: release a=unstable\nPin-Priority: 90\n' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable apt update apt install -y linux-headers-odroidxu4 wireguard yields... Loading new wireguard-0.0.20181218 DKMS files... dpkg: warning: version '3.10.106-odroidxu4 4.19.14' has bad syntax: invalid character in revision number Building f…

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SteeMan

November 29, 20241 yr

It's been a while I have on my TODO list : write a guide on how to activate and use the Marvell Cryptographic Engines And Security Accelerator (CESA) on Helios4. Previously I already shared some numbers related to the CESA engine while using @tkaiser sbc-bench tool. I also shared some findings on the openssl support for the kernel modules (cryptodev and af_alg) that interact with the cesa engine. My conclusion was : 1. performance wise : effectively cryptodev performs slightly better than af_alg. 2. openssl / libssl support : very messy and broken, it all depends which version of openssl you use. Since many Debian Stretch apps depe…

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sfx2000

November 1, 20214 yr

Using release Armbian_23.5.1_Rpi4b_jammy_current_6.1.29 on a Raspberry Pi 4b. From a clean install: $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt upgrade $ sudo apt install podman $ podman run --rm docker.io/library/hello-world Error: command required for rootless mode with multiple IDs: exec: "newuidmap": executable file not found in $PATH Podman runs fine with sudo, so for now I can use that as a workaround, but it would be nice to run rootless containers for dev environments. There is a related issue on the official podman repo, but the solutions there don't seem to apply to armbian. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/9271

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Igor

July 14, 20233 yr

Hello, After upgrading helios4 I encountered this problem after rebooting: U-Boot SPL 2019.04-armbian (Jul 03 2024 - 12:20:37 +0000) High speed PHY - Version: 2.0 Detected Device ID 6828 board SerDes lanes topology details: | Lane # | Speed | Type | -------------------------------- | 0 | 6 | SATA0 | | 1 | 5 | USB3 HOST0 | | 2 | 6 | SATA1 | | 3 | 6 | SATA3 | | 4 | 6 | SATA2 | | 5 | 5 | USB3 HOST1 | -------------------------------- High speed PHY - Ended Successfully mv_ddr: mv_ddr-armada-18.09.2 DDR3 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window DDR Training Sequenc…

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wolf7250

December 10, 2025Dec 10

Hello, I had succeeded install last version of Armbian on Odroid XU4. I have WiFi USB dongle Realtek RTL8812AU chipset (ID = 0bda:8812) I see it $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter $ dmesg | grep -i usb [ 9.630704] [c5] RTL871X: rtl8812au v4.2.5_10143.20140103_ASUS [ 9.887562] [c5] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8812au [18812.680134] [c2] RTL871X: nolinked power save leave but no Wifi interface Could anyone please help solve it

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funkypunkskunk

May 10, 20197 yr

Hi all, I am trying to get ZFS up and running on my new Helios4. My apologies if I am overlooking something trivial. My assumption is that I need a different image? Steps taken: # apt-get install zfsutils-linux At the final stage of installation (configuration), the error output is: The ZFS modules are not loaded. Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them. zfs-share.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE zfs-share.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Image details: Helios4 provided Armbian image Debian 10 - Buster, 02/08/2019 https://cdn.kobol.io/files/A…

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dkxls

April 27, 20215 yr

I seem to have issues on my Helios 4 where it constantly reboots. I have no idea what happens just before. I assume some kind of kernel panic. Kernel 4.19.63 - works 4.19.84 - I believe works 4.19.104 and above - broken Newer ones are broken as well. This is most likely an issue with some local patch. Any way to view the history?

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Mangix

December 20, 20205 yr

Following the install instructions from: https://www.wireguard.com/install/#debian-module-tools Wireguard server is working correctly as I have other devices working. I recieve the following output: root@helios4:/etc/wireguard# wg-quick up PiVPNHelios4 [#] ip link add PiVPNHelios4 type wireguard [#] wg setconf PiVPNHelios4 /dev/fd/63 [#] ip -4 address add 10.6.0.5/24 dev PiVPNHelios4 [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev PiVPNHelios4 [#] resolvconf -a tun.PiVPNHelios4 -m 0 -x Unknown interface 'tun': No such device [#] ip link delete dev PiVPNHelios4 Have I setup something wrong with wireguard? or is it not fully supported? …

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Declan

March 15, 20215 yr

My hardware: Odroid HC2 Armbian 24.5.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.6.31-current-odroidxu4 : My backup restoration → Has other issues too → But apt upgrade results in various size and hash mismatches. Offtopic: apt upgrade or sudo dpkg --configure -a always crash the system (since summer 2024, troubleshooting without success since christmas 2024) Ruled out HW failure 80-90%. My local apt/dpg cache was corrupted, thus at /var/lib/dpkg/ backed up info/ to info.bak/ and mkdir info/ afresh. And now sudo dpkg --configure -a completed successfully the very first time! But 2025-02-09 ca. 12:00 CET and also later the afternoon apt…

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Davy

February 14, 20251 yr

Hello, i prepared a microsd card with the Armbian_5.90_Odroidxu4_Debian_buster_next_4.14.127 image and started my ODROID XU4. However the problem encountered is the failure of the NetworkManager, which of course is a main service to operate the ODROIDXU4. Sofar ARMBIAN images had been very reliable and stable in the past. The failure of starting the Network Manager something unusual for ARMBIAN. Enclosed you'll find a error messages. I appreciate very much your help and supporting comments! regards, Ireng

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Ireng

July 21, 20197 yr

My HC1 after changing from 4.14.157 to 5.4.6 using armbian-config is not able to get up ... zero response, no boot Does HC1 work with kernel 5 and boot, can anyone confirm?

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Romeo

September 23, 20206 yr

Hi, I've just ordered a Xu4 to use it as a desktop and I have never used armbian before. Is webgl is running fine in chromium browser? I want to run Construct 3 on it. Thanks in advance!

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rooted

April 27, 20188 yr

Dear all.problem with my Xu4My router is a bit buggy..[ i think or my isp ]When my isp has a hick in the wan lineMy Xu4 does not automatic reconnect with my lanIs there a option to auto reconnect when there is a connection lose Now i reboot the xu4 manually and then is working everything fine'I use the latest armbian on my Xu4

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tkaiser

November 2, 20178 yr

Just a little question: I'm new with this device, but not with armbian. Tested the Image for HC1 and it works fine, but if i try to boot root filesystem from sata device (using armbian-config, sata install) it didn't boot. Anyone tested that with success? Thx

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nihilista

October 19, 20178 yr

All credit goes to @jshc1, I only found this info in this post and split it off here so it could more easily be found later. I am not sure if this applies only to ODROID-XU4 or other Odroids as well.

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jshc1

February 13, 20206 yr

I tried updating my kernel to self-built 5.4.173 as usual. I got some errors during installation due to low space on /boot, but after removing leftovers of 5.4.168 the installation worked as expected. Something went wrong though, as my HC1 no longer boots. This is shown via UART: All the files seem to be on the SD card: $ ls -l insgesamt 32447 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 8. Jan 16:27 armbianEnv.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 6. Sep 2019 armbianEnv.txt.out -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1536 29. Mai 2018 armbian_first_run.txt.template -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 38518 29. Mai 2018 boot.bmp -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4882 29. Mai 2018 boot-desktop.p…

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belegdol

June 17, 20224 yr

Hello For quite some time I experienced system freezes. I already measured the voltage on the board 12V and 5V are okay on both connectors. Attached you will find the armbianmonitor -U output. I tried to capture kernel logs using information from some other thread. sudo dmesg -n 7 sudo dmesg -w But I could not capture anything useful. Today the system froze while checking the raid (filesystem was not mounted). [ 168.224361] md: data-check of RAID array md0 Is there anything else I can do to shed some light? Thanks and regards -kratz00 armbianmonitor.log

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Mangix

February 6, 20215 yr

Hi, where can I find kernel headers for RPi5 jammy? linux-headers-6.1.68.current-bcm2712 ? This version of Armbian is really usefull because it is the only one that can run a version of ROS natively on a RPi5, but I need the headers to build drivers Thanks

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J.Ayuso

February 2, 20242 yr

Hi Everyone, I'm considering getting an ODROID-HC1 to use as a simple NAS. Is this a good idea? (Yes, some of you will have seen my very similar post about the Espressobin!) My requirements are quite basic; a single SATA SSD and a single ethernet port, running NFS and Samba. I do need a newish version of Samba (required to support "Time Machine" backup from my Mac) which I believe is in Debian Buster but not in Stretch. I've been a Debian user for decades; I guess I might be happier if the hardware supplier provided a Debian image, but it's great that Armbian is available. I note that Armbian Buster for this board is described as "Testing"; should I wait for a bit…

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Igor

March 24, 20206 yr

Hello Everyone, As @tkaiser is probably aware from the hardkernel forum, I'm having issues with USB/SMART and OMV. Basically, USB resets whenever SMART data is pulled from OMV's web interface, it works fine if I manually do it in shell. Here is some info. http://sprunge.us/HdbK I was proposed to update smartmontools to 6.5, but there are library dependencies that are missing. If any of you fine folks have any ideas as to what could be causing it, I would be grateful. Thank you

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Stuart Naylor

August 18, 20179 yr

So I recently loaded the x86 Armbian 6.12 - Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) server image onto a GEEKOM Air12 Lite N150 (wow that was a mouthful), only to find the ethernet port missing... turns out the Motorcomm YT6801 Ethernet Controller it uses is not in the mainline distro and has to be built manually. I have so far referenced the following resources about this: https://github.com/albertogviana/YT6801 https://github.com/dante1613/Motorcomm-YT6801 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=438301 https://deb.tuxedocomputers.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxedo-yt6801/ and run the gamut for two days straight without much luck.…

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Igor

September 16, 20251 yr

Hi, I received 2 same boards recently. One is working great, second has suffered from unexpected shutdowns. Rpimonitor has not recorded this high temperatures yet, maximum temperature recorded is not more than 90C. SoC has been utilized on 100% with ffmpeg video conversion and other tasks. I run these board on Jessie or Bionic system and have tested mainline stable and beta kernel. These board have got passive heatsink however I put 80x80 quiet slower fan on the top of heatsink, thermal compound is replaced for silver one without making problem solved. Spoiler cat /var/log/syslog | grep critical May 27 23:32:30 localhost kernel: [ 10.1…

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technik007_cz

December 5, 20187 yr

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94k0p67w7581 UEFI can be way how to boot it maybe

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jglathe

August 28, 20233 yr

I tried to install armbian to my internal sata drive (SSD: Samsung Evo 850). But the device fails to boot after the root fs is moved. I used the command nand-sata-install with following option: Boot from SD - system on SATA or USB I tried different filesystem formats (ext4, btrfs) and armbian builds: Armbian_5.37_Odroidxu4_Debian_jessie_next_4.9.71 (stable) Armbian_5.37_Odroidxu4_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.71 (stable) Armbian_5.41_Odroidxu4_Debian_stretch_next_4.9.83 (self-built) I dont have a terminal adapter to access the boot logs. Any hints how to get additional information or to fix this issue?

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Walker

June 9, 20188 yr

I'm using Armbian 21.08.8 (Bullseye). I want to upgrade to Armbian 22.02.1 but "apt-get update" doesn't offer anything. Reason seems to be that <mirror>/apt/dists is from Feb 1st 2022. OTOH <mirror>/dl contains the new release but "starting from scratch" (download image, write SDcard) implies that I have to rebuild my OMV6 on top of Armbian. Question: When can I expect that <mirror>/apt/dists will be refreshed? Or is there any other way to upgrade my installation?

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rayc

June 13, 20233 yr

Hi! short question: Best way to create a bootable clone of sd card? I did some reading and found ">>create image on windows >> shrink image via gparted" doesn't work for me since I dont have a second computer running linux (will the linux subsystem on windows 10 help?). In the past, I used the rpi-clone on a raspberry, but reading in this forum has taught me that hotcloning an armbian sd card via script is not necessarily safe. Computers availabel to me are: 1) odroid hc2 running armbian 2) acer laptop running windows 10

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kerosin

March 5, 20215 yr

Hi Armbian Users I'm french, so excuse my poor english I'm having hard times installing Ubiquiti Unifi Controller on Armbian (running on a XU4) Armbian version : Armbian_5.59_Odroidxu4_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.66 I followed different tutorial, but no luck with those no brain tutorial. I must be retarded MongoDB is giving me a hard time, broken dependencies and so on. I understood that some managed to do it with Armbian based on Ubuntu. No luck eitheir for me. I did add the mongodb repository for 3.6 version, which support arm64 architecture. Apt never gave me the ability to install the mongodb-org package an…

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Guest

May 25, 20197 yr

Hi, I have recently installed armbian-config on my HC1 running OMV and switched to -current kernel from -legacy. Unfortunately, now whenever I soft-reboot following a kernel update, the sda drive is missing: [ 6.161366] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 6.180240] scsi host0: uas [ 6.181260] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 6.182155] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JMicron Generic 3102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 6.193271] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unit Not Ready [ 6.193290] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x4 [current] [ 6.193302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81 [ 6.194247] sd 0:0:…

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rosbeef

May 2, 20215 yr

Hi all I'm currently using armbian on a Odroid-XU4 and to use a peripheral I need to patch the kernel. So to start that process i run: apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) which failed: Unable to find a source package for linux-image-3.10.102-odroidxu4 I tried adding adding the sources by adding deb-src http://apt.armbian.com jessie main to the armbian.list but this is aparently not a thing. Do any of you have any idea where i can find a souce repository. Thanks in advance. edit: on a sidenote is 3.10.102 really the newest kernel available for this board using armbian?

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wildcat_paris

September 19, 201610 yr

im on a fresh install of armbian cinnamon for the rpi4. i can not seem to get bluetooth working. there seems to be no bluetooth module loaded by kernel maybe? i tried to enable it using armbian-config, but it doesn't get activated by systemctl even when enabled. any ideas?

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Matthijs Kooijman

April 10, 20233 yr

Does someone know why the kernel reverted to 4.9.* from 4.14.*?

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Igor

July 9, 20188 yr

After upgrade to version 5.15.72, fancontrol service fails to start, due to missing /dev/fan-j17 There is some information in dmesg: pwm-fan j17-pwm: error -EBUSY: Could not get PWM

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alchemist

October 15, 20241 yr

My end game is to use hardware h264 encoding for my security camera streams (using OpenCV, etc) . The first step is testing ffmpeg. It appears that all the necessary pieces are already present in the release I'm using. If I use: ffmpeg -i centaur_2.mpg -acodec aac -vcodec h264 -b:v 2M -pix_fmt nv21 test.mp4 CPU stays below 12% and I get 44 FPS. Seems like hardware encoding is working here. If I use: ffmpeg -i centaur_2.mpg -acodec aac -vcodec h264_v4l2m2m -b:v 2M -pix_fmt nv21 test.mp4 About the same performance, but the file is 10x larger! If I use: ffmpeg -i centaur_2.mpg -acodec aac -vc…

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sgjava

December 22, 20196 yr

I’m running jammy and (I think) I’d like to upgrade to bullseye. But I can’t find a procedure for doing so. I’m guessing I can’t just dist-upgrade since jammy is Ubuntu and bullseye is Debian? I’ve googled for a procedure and searched this forum as well but I’m not finding a procedure. While searching this forum, I saw lots of topics where people had problems after upgrading to bullseye. Should I even do the upgrade? I don’t have much invested in the jammy install so far. Aside from running through armbian-config and getting all the settings the way I want them, the only things I’ve done are 1) installed Docker and 2) installed docker-compose. The latter was …

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ErniePantuso

July 30, 20224 yr

I've been running Armbian on an Odroid HC1 board for some time now. We've just had a kernel upgrade and it now boots as an XU4 according to the motd. This used to be changeable with armbian-config (I did this regularly on kernel updates). But, with the new armbian-config I can't find a way to do this any more. *edit A bit more info Running SY017 in armbian-config gives an empty list, and I get this error: ls: cannot access '/boot/dtb/overlay/*.dtbo': No such file or directory In fact /boot/dtb/overlay/ does not exist

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Igor

March 24, 20251 yr

Hello, I suffered a power outage and my odroid hc1 won't boot since. I also updated the kernel to 4.14.141 but the system did come back up after reboot to that kernel, it is just the power outage which seems to have caused problems. I have tried connecting the sd card and the to the laptop and ran fsck on them, no issues were found. Is there a way to debug the booting issues by say, forcing some sort of log to be writen to sd card? LED wise, red (power) LED is on, whereas green (SATA) and blue (system) seem to turn on and off repeatedly; green first, blue second, and then they both turn off at the same time. Thanks!

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Igor

December 2, 20196 yr

I was curious if anyone has experience with using Armbian on older x86 server hardware systems. This would be for a home-lab sort of setup. In the past, I fought with Ubuntu Server and found that I missed the Armbian-Config utility that made setup a breeze. (Specifically looking at WIWYNN LYRA-M SV315, INTEL XEON E5-2670 V2 SR1A7 2.5GHZ 10-C0RE) I am planning to run a MariaDB instance for a scientific database. My past test use was using Armbian on an 8 GB Raspberry pi 4B, with MariaDB, and it worked very well, until the SD card failed. Any thoughts or points of caution before attempting this would be appreciated. I have generally had a very p…

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Igor

October 15, 20232 yr

Since 10 days I try to install NextcloudPi on Odroid HC1. Unfortunately neither the nextcloud image nor the armbian image boots on the Odroid HC1. Also an attempt with OMV failed. In my experience with the raspi, the sd card had to have a boot partition and a rootfs partition. Etcher and dd always create only one rootfs. The blue LED flashes: short, short, pause. Also exchanged hardware was unsuccessful (HC1 and SD cards).

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alwi

February 20, 20206 yr

Hello, I experimented with various OS-es for my new Odroid-XU4. From what I have learned I like armbian the best because it's the closest to the original debian. A clean, small, tuned up system with the possibility to switch back to sysvinit from system(d). What I would run on it is not a desktop environment but exactly Kodi. The XU4 comes with Ubuntu 16 LTS preloaded to sdcard and I can say this is the OS which maxes out the potential of this hardware. With this after an update & upgrade everything works out of the box: kodi, networking, hdmi-cec, hdmi-audio. With using the unofficial debian jessie for odroid: http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=175…

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Jerome

June 11, 20179 yr

Hello guys! Probably some of you know me as the MadEDoctor from Youtube. For those of you who don't know my channel and don't know what I am doing at the moment - Long story short I got my hands on a 16GB RAM chip that should be compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 hardware. But there is a problem I am facing... That is I am unable to boot any OS different from VMware (arm version) and RISC OS (that is pretty much useless). When I try to boot Raspbian for example - It shows the rainbow square and then gets stuck on a completely black screen and it draws around 500mA... I contacted Jeff Geerling with the hope he could help with this project. He wrote a post on the …

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BOFFBOY

January 13, 20251 yr

Raspberry OS has weird quirks that automate the process of setting up the system for using cameras, but I'm looking for clean way to set up the device tree to use the imx219 camera. Anyone knows what overlays to enable to get this to work on Armbian? Additionally where's the location of device tree overlays sources for Raspberry Pi 5 on Armbian?

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c0rnelius

May 7, 20242 yr

I am only sure, that Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rpi4b_jammy_edge_5.19.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz works with my hardware, maybe Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rpi4b_jammy_current_5.15.70_xfce_desktop.img.xz too. For sure I have problems with newer Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rpi4b_jammy_current_5.15.73_xfce_desktop.img.xz and Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rpi4b_jammy_edge_5.19.15_xfce_desktop.img.xz So where can I download older versions?

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pi400user

October 21, 20223 yr

Hi, New user here - I Just download the current version of Armbian today with the hopes of using it on my Raspberry Pi 5B. After unzipping it, I created an image on a usb stick using Raspberry Pi Imager - use custom. However, it is not booting. It only shows a few lines on the screen, the last being: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. (screen shot below) What am I doing wrong?

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Rob Latour

July 16, 20242 yr

Hello I have Odroid xu4 with fan mounted on heatsink. I found several tutorials online and I have one problem. I have Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.28-odroidxu4 I tried edit temp curve and I did it with nano /etc/rc.local # Target temperature: 30°C, 50°C, 70°C TRIP_POINT_0=30000 TRIP_POINT_1=50000 TRIP_POINT_2=70000 echo $TRIP_POINT_0 > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_0_temp echo $TRIP_POINT_0 > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone1/trip_point_0_temp echo $TRIP_POINT_0 > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone2/trip_point_0_temp echo $TRIP_POINT_0 > /sys/devices/virtual/ther…

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tbylit

June 2, 20206 yr

Dear all. After a update/upgrade and dist-upgrade.. a few weeks a go i think there is something going wrong on my Xu4 After every update and upgrade i still get the same errors: root@odroidxu4:~# sudo apt-get update Err:1 http://apt.armbian.com xenial InRelease Could not resolve 'apt.armbian.com' Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com…

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Dombo 71

January 21, 20188 yr

For Armbian-24.11.0 RPi ubuntu noble based builds wlan interface is missing Issue is present in Rpi3 B plus, RPi4 for current (kernel 6.6.x) and edge (kernel 6.10.x) armbian builds OS info ================ pi@rpi4b:~$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Armbian-unofficial 24.11.0-trunk noble" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="24.04" VERSION="24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)" VERSION_CODENAME=noble ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://duckduckgo.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://community.armbian.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://armbian.atlassian.net/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://duckduckgo.com/" UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble LOGO="armbian-logo"…

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c0rnelius

January 12, 20251 yr

Hi. I have a Odroid XU4 with Ubuntu Bionic latest release (5.60), powered with this UPS: APC SmartUPS 750 VA. Apcupsd doesn't work. The problem seems related to the missing /dev/usb/hiddev0. After searching on Google, I found that apcupsd requires this feature enabled in the kernel. CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=Y I build my own kernel enabling it, but no change. Here the output of the command # dmesg | grep Smart [ 4.125553] usb 1-1.2: Product: Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.13.I USB FW:7.3 [ 4.205622] hid-generic 0003:051D:0002.0001: hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651 On the Rock64 board it works without…

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PatrikX

July 14, 20197 yr

Hello community! I have performed an update from armbian 11 to 12 and OMV 6 to 7 and completed it successfully so far. Unfortunately just the package armbian-bsp-cli-odroidxu4 was not upgraded due to a missing dependency: +++ The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-bsp-cli-odroidxu4-current : Depends: base-files (>= 24.5.1) but 12.4+deb12u6 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@omv:~# sudo apt install 12.4+deb12u6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package 12.4+deb1…

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Igor

September 23, 20242 yr

Hello, I wanna test Armbian x86 on virtual machine. Is possible to convert its img file to some format (vdi or vmdk) and boot on Virtualbox? I made a attempt but it wont boot.. VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw --format VDI armbian.img ambian.vdi Thx a lot

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BOFFBOY

February 12, 20242 yr

A display connected to the DSI connector of Raspberry Pi 5 does not work when using Armbian. However, the display works perfectly when using the Raspberry OS. My OS image is: Armbian_25.2.2_Rpi4b_bookworm_current_6.12.15_cinnamon_desktop Dmesg reveals the following information: [ 13.283052] mipi-dsi 1f00118000.dsi.0: deferred probe pending: mipi-dsi: supplier 2.reg_bridge not ready [ 13.283060] platform 1.panel_disp: deferred probe pending: platform: wait for supplier /axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/reg_display@45 This forum post suggests, that the problem is due to the missing I2C driver "CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM": http…

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CaWeissWz

September 12, 20251 yr

Does anyone know any way to fix the annoying way the fan works on this device? Even on idle load, the fan spins up every couple of minutes, keeps spinning for a few seconds, then turns off again, only to repeat a few minutes later. I can't even sleep in the same room the device is in... I've tried using this: https://github.com/f1vefour/odroid-xu4-fan-control And it hasn't really solved anything, as the fan cannot start on PWM values lower than 100... it instead makes squeaking noises. So having adjusted the script, nothing has really changed. Is there something I could do to fix this in software? Perhaps something that doesn't involve getting the heatsink …

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NicoD

August 26, 20188 yr

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and installed Armbian on it. Most things work fine, aside for some weird output issues in htop and nano. I noticed, when I go to the Raspberry Pi page on Armbian, the url refers to the Pi 4b, not the 5. I also found some articles online linking to a specific Pi 5b page (which I thought was weird since that model doesn't exist), but it just redirects to the 4b page. Then, I went searching in the archive and found that, at some point, there were specific 5b images available (https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/rpi5b/archive). Which of these should I use? Is the 4b image okay to use on a Pi 5? Or do you not suppo…

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denbro

May 17May 17

I'm having a hard time clarifying if OMV 5 is stable on Helios 4 and if there are any successful builds out there. Since there doesn't seem to be an upgrade path from OMV4 -> OMV5 and so requiring a full rebuild, I want to understand as much as possible before actually trying this new version out. Any successes out there?

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Patrick Schlüter

July 5, 20206 yr

I bought an helios4 (and run helios4 4.19.63-mvebu) to replace a bananapi server under armbian, the bananapi was running a DRBD node, so I need this service. I first tried to install it, and have seen that DRBD was not configured in the kernel linux-image-next-mvebu 5.91. and the module was missing I checked in the git repository that linux-mvebu64-next.config has now this configuration option, and thought that I will get a new kernel by switching to nightly build. As this option is offered by armbian-config I toggled it. After some time my Helios4 failed to reboot and was bricked. I mounted my SD on an other system to try to analyze the situation, nothing app…

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marcz

November 21, 20196 yr

Hi All! I was wondering if there is a proper way to deploy a freshly built armbian for Odroid XU4 on an eMMC? Unfortunately, the SD-Card version doesn't seem to work with the eMMC. After searching for this topic I couldn't find anythin in particular related to Odroid. Thanks, Viktor

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N4IRS

October 2, 20179 yr

The Armbian htop fork doesn’t show the cores frequencies. Is this a known problem? The frequencies are available like on any other computer in the sysfs entries (cpufreq driver).

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memeka

January 23, 20197 yr

Hi everyone. I'm going through the setup process of my Helios4, but am encountering issues with the termina/serial login, which appears to be a character set issue of some type, which I can't figure out. Here is what I have so far: sudo picocom -b 115200 /dev/tty.usbserial-DJ00JLDH picocom v3.1 port is : /dev/tty.usbserial-DJ00JLDH flowcontrol : none baudrate is : 115200 parity is : none databits are : 8 stopbits are : 1 escape is : C-a local echo is : no noinit is : no noreset is : no hangup is : no nolock is : no send_cmd is : sz -vv receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E imap is …

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sfx2000

January 10, 20197 yr

I just installed Armbian_5.90_Odroidxu4_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.14.127.img which will hang on sudo reboot (fan keeps spinning, no blue heartbeat led). I have another XU4 runnig the same version without the reboot issue. Armbianmonitor info uploded.

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jshc1

January 25, 20206 yr

Ok, so after PHP issues I started off with a fresh armbian install and via armbian-config I installed OMV 4. Install finished without any problems but if I copy stuff via smb the tranfer speed is really bad and I don't know why. On an old install with OMV 3 I used to get nice 100 mb/s. The cpu temp also used to be at like 80 °C during copy, now it looks like this: Following extra options are set in smb.conf: min receivefile size = 16384 write cache size = 524288 getwd cache = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY I also checked smbd app, it's running on a big core.... I get the feeling that not all the avaiable resources of my HC2 ar…

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trohn_javolta

January 7, 20197 yr

Helios4 can boot directly from the sata disk nr 1, without the need to switch from the SD or the eMMC. I personally tried setting SW1 to 11100 and using u-boot-sata for Clearfog, which shares the same uSOM and the system booted regularly, obviously the system didn't recognize many devices being u-boot for another board. I tried to compile a version of u-boot for sata trying to integrate the changes present in https://solidrun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/developer/pages/287212134/A38X+U-Boot in the U-boot build instruction and sources for Helios4 present in the Kobol Wiki but my skills are not sufficient for such a job. In the binaries available for…

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laibsch

December 13, 2025Dec 13

Hello ! I'm trying to build my custom Armbian image for a Raspberry Pi. When I build it with these settings, I get a rolling release, which I don't want. compile.sh BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes DISABLE_IPV6=true INCLUDE_HOME_DIR=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no NETWORKING_STACK=network-manager RELEASE=trixie EXPERT=yes BOARD=rpi4b But when I boot with the official armbian minimal image (Armbian_25.8.1_Rpi4b_trixie_current_6.12.41_minimal.img) It's not on the rolling release. Do I miss a setting ? edit: I've tried with building the image on the main and the v25.08 branch.

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robertoj

September 8, 20251 yr

Hi, I am using Nextcloudpi Image (Armbian) on an HC1. This setup is obviously not booting anymore after system upgrade. Packages that have been upgraded: - armbian-config - armbian-firmware - linux-buster-root-legacy-odroidxu4 - linux-dtb-legacy-odroidxu4 - linux-image-legacy-odroidxu4 - linux-u-boot-odroidxu4-legacy Insterting the µSD into an Laptop running PureOS (Debian fork) I can access log files. I could investigate so far, that there was a system upgrade (armbian-firmware_21.05.1) on 2021-05-11 6:00 am. After that a message that system will be rebooted on 2021-05-12 4:00 am. That actually happened. I can see this in several log…

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marsch

June 3, 20215 yr

Unable to start docker after update, due to apparmor I used armbian-config's "edit boot-enviroment", added "extraargs=apparmor=0" and after a reboot I still get: docker start portainer Error response from daemon: AppArmor enabled on system but the docker-default profile could not be loaded: running `apparmor_parser apparmor_parser --version` failed with output: error: exec: "apparmor_parser": executable file not found in $PATH Error: failed to start containers: portainer armbianmonitor: https://paste.armbian.com/ebuburoxeh

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tordenflesk

February 6, 20233 yr

Hi, I'm running OMV on Odroid HC2. I updated to OMV 7.7.1. Armbian to 24.5.1 with Linux kernel 6.6.31-current-odroid-xu4. After reboot the server started to act very slow. I tried to reapply the DBT for HC1/2 via armbian-config but this did not help. armbian-config says I'm on ondemand governor between 200-200 MHz. What could be the issue? Actually my system says I should run dpkg --configure -a but this command hang here and the system reboots after few seconds... steakhutzeee@dk:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for steakhutzeee: Setting up containerd.io (1.6.33-1) ... …

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hmof

June 18, 20242 yr

Hi! I've been using Armbian on my Odroid XU4 for some months now. It runs LogitechMediaServer, Home-assistant, Openmediavault,... It's great. However, today, I've just ran apt-get upgrade, reboot because of an update of the kernel and then... no reboot! The blue LED of the Odroid is lit (it doesn't blink), there is nothing on the HDMI output, nothing on the network,... It seems like the odroid cannot load the kernel. Is there anything I could do to try to make it boot again ? Yeah, I know, I should have done a backup of the SD card before the update ... Thanks for your help!

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BigG2017

April 17, 20179 yr

Hi Installed Armbian_25.2.3_Rpi4b_bookworm_current_6.12.17-homeassistant_minimal.img To work around broken packages dependency run: apt update dpkg --remove --force-all libraspberrypi0 armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current apt --fix-broken install At the end I got this: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.17-current-bcm2711 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156b-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156a-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153c-1.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/…

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Werner

September 1, 20251 yr

G'day Has anyone managed to get our fave OS booting on this device. ? Wyse 3040 (N10D) I've created UEFI boot media, with both Rufus and Etcher, but it dosne't see it as bootable. To prove settings are ok on the device, it boots the deb bookworm usb image I made. Unfortunatly, Deb won't install as this device only has 8GB of flash... hence why I returned again to Armbain Many thanks MarkA

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Sonikku

October 26, 2025Oct 26

Dear Readers I had quite some troubles migrating my armbian system from an SD-Card (16GB) to my emmc (32GB). I'd like to sum up my journey for future travelers ;-) I was not successful simply copying the image of the sd to the emmc and resizing the partition. It would not boot. Apparently emmc has additional boot partitions which must be set correctly. I "repaired" the emmc with this https://wiki.odroid.com/accessory/emmc/recovery_xu4 and it booted Android all right from emmc. I then rebooted on my SD-Card and used the nand-sata-install command to "Boot from eMMC - system on eMMC". It took some time to copy, but when booting on the emmc, still Android…

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TRS-80

December 1, 20205 yr

Fairly sure the current build either includes an incorrect or no ucm config for HDMI Audio support; I've seen other builds eg rock itx have this issue but I believe this may be a potential issue for the q6a build if anyone experiences there is a solution - 1. Install alsa-ucm-conf sudo apt install -y alsa-ucm-conf 2. Download configs cd /tmp curl -sL "https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz" | tar xz 3. Copy QCS6490 configs sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/Qualcomm/qcs6490 /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/Qualcomm/ sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/conf.d/qcs6490 /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/conf.d/ …

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Darkseider

June 24Jun 24

I have a 32-bit Celeron notebook with 1Gb RAM. It boots only from DVD. Will it work with Armbian? Thanks.

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krrmbn

March 18, 20242 yr

I have a Helios4 (2nd batch) with 4 HDDs, and before I started using it, I decided to test its performance on the planned workload. However, I got quite not satisfied with the numbers. First, the SSH speed is about 30 MB/s, while the CPU core where sshd runs is at 100% (so I suppose it's the bottleneck). I create a sparse file and copy it over SSH: helios4# dd if=/dev/null bs=1M seek=2000 of=/tmp/blank With scp I get up to 31.2 MB/s: pc# scp root@helios4:/tmp/blank /tmp With rsync I get pretty much the same numbers: pc# rm /tmp/blank pc# rsync -e ssh --progress root@helios4:/tmp/blank /tmp/ blank 2,097,152,000 100% 31.06MB/s 0:01:04 (xfr…

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Heisath

February 16, 20215 yr

I'm trying to get my Logitech Quickcam working and tested using Armbian Xenial Mainline 4.9.13. It's worked out of the box on just about every other distro tried in recent years...not sure on Armbian. Here is the output from lsusb: Bus 003 Device 007: ID 046d:08d8 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam for Notebook Deluxe Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0c45:7000 Microdia Honestly, the webcam may work fine now, but I'm having issues installing a package to test it, such as Cheese or guvcview. Can someone assist me with checking it out? Once I get the webcam working, I'd like to use it with Google Hangouts or Skype (via exagear). Thanks!

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BigG2017

May 13, 20179 yr

As the title states I already have software raid setup on my NAS. I'm currently running OMV 4 and I'd like to do a fresh install of the latest Debian image and OMV 5. I do not want to lose my data and would like to simply re-mount my drives. Is this possible? Also if I mess up and I'm unable to mount the raid/volumes, could I create an image of my current micro sd card and simply reflash it back onto the card and have everything as it was?

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helios4noob

May 12, 20215 yr

Hello, Here is a DMESG kernel dump that I'm getting everytime I boot the Odroid HC2 with a 5.4.x kernel: Also random crashes related to memory. Spoiler [ +15.195670] 8<--- cut here --- [ +0.001580] Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x00000000 [ +0.007017] pgd = 632a7f01 [ +0.002682] [00000000] *pgd=00000000 [ +0.027685] 8<--- cut here --- [ +0.001585] Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x00000000 [ +0.007017] pgd = 632a7f01 [ +0.002681] [00000000] *pgd=00000000 [ +0.026593] 8<--- cut here --- [ +0.001589] Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x00000000 [ +0.007024] p…

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TonyMac32

April 23, 20206 yr

I installed Armbian from Armbian_23.11.3_Rpi5b_jammy_current_6.1.68_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz downloaded today (February 11th 24) After installation, I performed an upgrade/update. I have not yet installed any additional software. Issues; 1) when cinnamon desktop starts there is message displayed: Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration 2) vgencmd always gives an error: VCHI initialization failed, no matter if I run it with sudo or not, or with which parameter(s) I run it. armbian monitor -u gave link https://paste.armbian.com/lurunopoyo

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Igor

February 12, 20242 yr

Hi, A strange error appeared with the last kernel update on an Odroid HC2. From the home in the terminal displays this error under RX totay: RX today: Error: Interface "--oneline" not found in database. The board is hosting an OMV instance under Armbian Bullseye Linux version 5.4.212-odroidxu4. Does anyone have any idea about the origin of this message which does not seem to disrupt the NAS operation. thanks konki

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porg

January 1, 20233 yr

DUring a fresh install of Debian buster recently, I went through the armbian-config setup, which finished with "install a whole lot of package updates, and update the boodloader." Since I've rebooted from that, the board no longer boots. It's been a while, so I have unfortunately forgotten the details of what actually happened. I didn't expect that set of updates to change anything in the firmware, only the OS and u-boot on the MMC-card. The board powers on, attempts to boot from the MMC and then bails. This is the error log: (slightly trimmed) I've tried several different MMC cards. I've tried booting from SPI, SATA and UART…

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Renée

January 9, 20215 yr

Dears, Is there any recent Kodi compilation for XU4 ? Ive build it myself but whenever i try to load it, it gives me an warning saying that GLX/DRI2 is not supported and it also fails to open swrast. The other try i did is to download the .deb package from the mdrjr repository and unfortunately i get the same error. I believe i am missing the right drivers.... By the way, l today was my first experience with armbian... and honestly, i am very impressed. Any ideas ? Best, hippie

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Jerome

June 10, 20179 yr

Is there an armbian software distribution for the "Broadcom BCM2711" ? (rasberrypi 4)

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Igor

May 21, 20224 yr

Hi All, I've just got the new Orange Pi R1 and as expected it's working just well with the Orange Pi Zero armbian image. The only thing I'm struggeling with is the Wifi driver. The driver compiles succesfully but it seems that the kernel needs patching as well: ... CC [M] /usr/src/rtk8189es-2015-12-15-90ed86d42d/rtl8189ES//hal/OUTSRC/rtl8188e/phydm_RTL8188E.o CC [M] /usr/src/rtk8189es-2015-12-15-90ed86d42d/rtl8189ES//platform/platform_ops.o CC [M] /usr/src/rtk8189es-2015-12-15-90ed86d42d/rtl8189ES//platform/platform_ARM_SUNnI_sdio.o CC [M] /usr/src/rtk8189es-2015-12-15-90ed86d42d/rtl8189ES//core/rtw_mp.o CC [M] /usr/src/rtk81…

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tkaiser

October 16, 20178 yr

are there plans to produce a version of armbian for odroid hardware. the new xu4 seems to be amazingly fast... andrew

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darkmen

January 24, 201610 yr

Hello, I am the main developer of NextCloudPlus. NCP is a community project to make it easier to run and setup a Nextcloud instance in ARM boards, by providing configuration tools and setup wizards for typical management tasks such as backups, SSL certificates and more. We have just released the first stable version of Armbian based images with NCP for Odroid XU4 / HC1 / HC2. Check it out at the downloads section. More boards will come soon Feedback, testing and development help are very welcome Cheers,

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zador.blood.stained

June 10, 20188 yr

Hello, I set up an Odroid-HC1 running Armbian which works fine so far. But today I recognized htop only shows 8 CPUs of type .LITTLE running at a max of 1300Mhz while 4 of them were shown as .BIG CPUs with higher frequency before. The output of cat /proc/cpuinfo is: processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 36.00 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 3 processor : 1 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 36.00 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 t…

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jshc1

January 17, 20197 yr

Hello, So I am trying to setup my Helios 4. I am running into some issues with the installation, trying to group them here, so it will be easier. 1. I am trying to setup NextCloud following your tutorial on kobol wiki but I cannot install PHP 7.3 Here is the screenshot of the output after running the command: 2. Also, when I enter Armbian-Config, it seems unstable and crash. The menu doesn't display. 3. Other issue, I cannot access my NAS through SSH. It returns "operation timed out" How to solve these issues? Thank you for your help.

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gprovost

January 7, 20215 yr

Since I had a power supply problem with my XU4 I decided to download the image and start from scratch. First time I recall everything went smooth until my PS failed. Now, starting from a fresh image, when the first boot gets to SSH key regeneration, it hangs forever. Tried several times, tested the sd card, used a different one for test. Still hangs at SSH key regeneration. I had never tried moving the OS to the HD. All the contents there are good and it has passed all the long smart tests. If I reboot after a while hanging at SSH key regeneration it boots and does all the password stuff as expected, and everything else seems fine. Should I worry about it?

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wildcat_paris

July 11, 201610 yr

Hello! I have an RPi5 8GB board that I bought off of AliExpress, along with a Waveshare PoE M.2 HAT+ ( https://www.waveshare.com/poe-m.2-hat-plus-b.htm ) Initially I tried to use the Noble XFCE image, by following the recommended installation procedure via rpi-imager via a USB drive, hoping to install the system to a Toshiba (Kioxia) NVMe drive. The RPI5 was connected to a CrowView Note. What I saw was that the firmware loaded up the necessary files from the USB drive (then later the micro-SD card), and the initramfs loaded up too, then systemd started up, and probably when the screen usually goes blank for a short time (probably switchin…

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c0rnelius

November 11, 2025Nov 11

Upon reading the content of RPi5 about 6.12 from this and this , I was under the impression that it's okay to upgrade the Armbian 24.11 based NextCloudPi to a 6.12 kernel. Well, I was wrong and the RPi5 current stuck in the RPi Logo on a black page. Net address seems to be 0.0.0.0. I could really use some advice on how to restore this, perhaps some `chroot` method from another Linux machine to get the right kernel package and intramfs. Here are the steps that got me to the current situation. Maybe a hint on how to restore? 1. Mark `raspi-firmware`, like what was recommended in 1st post. sudo apt-mark hold raspi-firmware [sudo] passwo…

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The Tall Man

September 27, 20251 yr

Hi I am new to this forum and to Armbian but am enjoying the work of all those who have contributed. having installed Armbian for the first time could someone please confirm or otherwise if WiFi is supposed to be working on the RPI5 internal adapter? my install does not even see it at all it’s like it does not exist can it be turned on in simple terms for a noob?

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Igor

February 13, 20251 yr

Hi, I am trying to get my Xu4 to boot from an emmc card, I am using Armbian Bionic mainline kernel 4.9.y. I can write this to SD card, and it boots and runs OK. I prepared the emmc card using the inbuilt system nand-sata-install script. The emmc card will not boot. I tried a couple of other iso.s same non result. Checking the forum I found this thread started last year:- This thread was HIJACKED by Tkaiser , who turned it into a discussion about OMV, and I cannot see a successful conclusion to the original boot problem! Please can you advise me of the method to get my emmc card to boot on my xu4, using the curre…

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superpat

June 25, 20188 yr

Hi, yesterday I did a apt upgrade and noticed that my omv install also got updated. Now copying from my HC2 I only get like 50 mb/s. I always got like 100 mb/s..at least win explorer showed this, I know it's not accurate. Could the update have erased/overwritten all these nice tweaks @tkaiser made for us to increase tranfer speed? That would be very unfortunate :/ Any chance I can roll back the omv update?

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trohn_javolta

April 14, 20188 yr

Hello everyone, odroid xu4 user here with buster minimal 5.4 from https://dl.armbian.com/odroidxu4/Buster_current_minimal please have a look at the following output ... May 19 12:58:11 localhost kernel: [ 1581.893003] mmc_host mmc0: Bus speed (slot 0) = 50000000Hz (slot req 100000Hz, actual 100000HZ div = 250) May 19 12:58:12 localhost kernel: [ 1582.352546] mmc_host mmc0: Bus speed (slot 0) = 50000000Hz (slot req 400000Hz, actual 396825HZ div = 63) May 19 12:58:12 localhost kernel: [ 1582.389396] mmc_host mmc0: Bus speed (slot 0) = 50000000Hz (slot req 300000Hz, actual 297619HZ div = 84) May 19 12:58:12 localhost kernel: [ 1582.426230] mmc_hos…

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chriss

May 21, 20206 yr

Hi, just bought a HC1 and tryin to setup Armbian. I installed Armbian_5.37_Odroidxu4_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.71, works with SDHC. Now I put in my ADATA SP550 (480GB) SSD, but something fails, see dmesg: Spoiler [ 5.096332] r8152 6-1:1.0 eth0: v1.08.8 [ 5.118014] r8152 6-1:1.0 enx001e06326386: renamed from eth0 [ 5.207225] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd [ 5.228766] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=0578 [ 5.228786] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 5.228802] usb 4-1: Product: USB to SATA bridge [ 5.228…

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TonyMac32

March 19, 20188 yr

Hi. My dtb skills seem to be lacking, so I'm seeking guidance I'm running Armbian 5.27 from the sd card, kernel is 4.9.20-26 after an Apr 10 update. /boot has the following dtbs: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60782 Apr 10 21:29 exynos5422-odroidxu3.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60031 Apr 10 21:29 exynos5422-odroidxu3-lite.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60936 Jul 1 12:55 exynos5422-odroidxu4.dtb I want to change the fan threshold settings and pwm values to try and get more aggressive cooling as I'm not quite staying out of thermal throttling. After converting exynos5422-odroidxu4.dtb with dtc it's easy to see where both the thresholds…

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James Kingdon

July 3, 20179 yr

I have some HC1 running since last year. Before going into production I did SATA install, NEXT kernel, firmware and stretch update (I need that) and all updates offered through apt since then. I have read about newer armbian releases that my machines do not load and further HC1 optimization which I can´t find in my armbian-config. I wonder whether my setup will receive proper updates. It would be quite a hassle to reinstall. Now I have: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.9.61-odroidxu4 Linux HC1 4.9.61-odroidxu4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 22 16:34:23 CET 2017 armv7l cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http:/…

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trohn_javolta

May 16, 20188 yr