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Hello all, This seems to be an issue related to the python script to start the program, any help will be appreciated for those with python programming understanding: $ sudo systemctl status sys-oled.service * sys-oled.service - System Starting on OLED Display Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/sys-oled.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-09-17 02:22:42 JST; 10s ago Process: 4425 ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/sys-oled --display ${display_model} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 4425 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Sep 17 02:22:42 nas python3[4425]: main() Sep 17 02:22:…

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quincybatten

February 13, 20233 yr

Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Rpi4b_jammy_current_5.15.73_xfce_desktop.img.xz Raspberry PI400 Viewsonic VP930 (1280x1024) I checked the sha-sum and flashed 2 times a Patriot SXDC-128GB-card. When I boot the PI400 the monitors LED changes from green (power on) to yellow (standbye) for half an hour, when I start the PI400. It looks like there is a problem with this old monitor which supports 1280x1024 only. Don't know, if the boot routine checks the monitor, but the green LED can stay for 2sec, sometimes for 30sec. BTW Xubuntu 22.04 with an SSD works fine with the same hardware.

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pi400user

October 21, 20223 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

My board is Odroid HC1 Using balenaEtcher under Windows 10 I have instaled today Armbian_20.05.7_Odroidxu4_buster_current_5.4.50_minimal.img.xz and also was trying before Armbian_20.05.7_Odroidxu4_buster_legacy_4.14.187.img.xz. On both images I wanted to increase verbosity to 7 to see in serial console boot process. Changes in boot.ini are not used during boot until symlink /boot.ini is created which point to /boot/boot.ini Until this is done you will se uboot error that script /boot.ini is not found. Please add this symlink to images for XU4/HC1. Second issue is that editing armbianEnv.txt is not overwriting values in boot.ini. I ha…

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Igor

September 3, 20206 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

Hello, I'm looking for some support with installing plex media server on an Odroid HC1 running the non-desktop stable release of Armbian Bionic. I first used armbian-config to select and install 'plex' but the service didn't start. I then removed the installed 'plexmediaserver-installer' and any created 'plexmediaserver' files/directories & reinstalled manually as shown below: ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [88.…

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Adoby

September 29, 20188 yr

Hi, I get this error message on armbian / omv 4 to mail: "run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging exited with return code 1" Does anyone have a solution?

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Igor

November 9, 20187 yr

I was trying get sys-oled running on a new installation (upgrade, really) of bullseye. If go with the original Kobol github version, https://github.com/kobol-io/sys-oled, it fails to build RPI.GPIO and something else. I also found an alternate at https://github.com/rpardini/sys-oled-hc4, that builds, but when I run it, it complains about a thermal call in python: # sys-oled --display sh1106 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/sys-oled", line 142, in <module> main() File "/usr/local/bin/sys-oled", line 132, in main display_info(device) File "/usr/local/bin/sys-oled", line 105, in display_info draw.text(…

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TRS-80

February 26, 20224 yr

Hello, HELIOS4 system was running (and doing nothing), when it suddenly crashed. After restart, nothing automatically loaded (system stuck in emergency mode), once USB cable plugged i managed to log only once into the system, and discovered that no disks where mounted anymore (not even available / detect by the board) (it's not so easy as it seems there are some freezes, maybe due to the hardware errors related to he missing hdd links) 13:00 root@helios4 ~# ll /dev/sd* zsh: no matches found: /dev/sd* Is this a failing PSU (like in other threads) ? To be noted : the PSU has a blinking green light ... i can't rememb…

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SR-G

June 2, 20215 yr

Hello. First of all, thanks for your work and images working for my board :) I am working on S912 game board (board is used for an arcade game hardware) and would like to install gpu drivers. My issue is I don't find any documentation about from official website (ARM) I also wanted to use Panfrost but no documentation exist for installation :( I visited many site and Learn a little about Deb package and dkms package. Now I have a few questions about Can I install deb without dkms or must I install also dkms? How I can install gpu drivers if files like make don't exist on officia…

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AndrewDB

March 6, 20197 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

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

Hi, I'm running Armbian UEFI x86 on a Radxa Rock X4 and I'm struggling to find, where to put the kernel parameters. The armbian-config SY003 suggests /boot/armbianEnv.txt. So I've put a line with extraargs=, but it is ignored. Then I've tried /etc/default/grub adding the parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and then doing update-grub, but it is also ignored. Where should I put the kernel parameters?

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fik

November 25, 20241 yr

Hi, Using 4 HDDs in my Helios 4 with Openmediavault 5.5. After a update & restart all the HDD's are gone (not shown at all in lsblk anymore). After poking around in the the systemmessages i found this in dmsg, but don't know what to do with it. ``` [ 1.746837] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: supply ahci not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.746909] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: supply phy not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747062] platform f10a8000.sata:sata-port@0: supply target not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747207] platform f10a8000.sata:sata-port@1: supply target not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747285] ahci-mvebu…

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FredK

April 23, 20215 yr

Hello all, I am using Armbian (Debian Bookworm), Gnome with Wayland. everything is working just fine. The problem is with sharing or presenting screen with OBS-Studio, Jitsi, Google meeting or other. If I share a tab in Chromium/Firefox with Jtisi or Google meeting, that's work, but I can't share a window or full screen. I am wondering what is the main cost of that. This when I share full screen, it doesn't work properly, it shows like this: This when I share tab, it's working just fine.

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Sally

July 8, 20242 yr

Hi, my surveillance webcam stopped working after upgrade to 4.19.14. But only on my HC2. On my other H3-Deviceses, it's working well. System diagnosis information -> http://ix.io/1yko Linux 35708-HC2 4.19.14-odroidxu4 #5.70 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 12 18:34:04 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux Error message: root@35708-HC2:~# sudo mjpg_streamer -i "/usr/local/lib/input_uvc.so -d /dev/video0 -n -r 800x600 -f 30" -o "/usr/local/lib/output_http.so -n -w /usr/local/www -p 8080" MJPG Streamer Version: svn rev: 3:172M i: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video0 i: Desired Resolution: 800 x 600 i: Frames Per Second.: 30 i: Format...........…

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MacBreaker

January 14, 20197 yr

Hi. I installed Armbian on a raspberry pi 5. Everything went smoothly, but straight-away, I see that dmesg is filled with this error: brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0x100c fail, reason -52 I'm noticing some inconsistencies on the network, and I'm not sure if this is behind it. I tried installing the firmware-brcm80211, but it didn't help -- in fact, I think it might have made it worse. I've looked all over, but I cannot see any useful information regarding this. It has no usb devices attached, not using and gpio pins or anything fancy. It is just a node on the network that is presenting information on a televis…

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c0rnelius

May 7, 20242 yr

After installing armbian bookworm the fans are always at maximum. Here is how I solved. Trying to figure out what is not working I try to run the related service systemctl start fancontrol.service but it does not start. So I check the latest errors: systemctl status fancontrol.service I obtain Failed ...fancontrol.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/fancontrol so, fancontrol is simply not there and apt can't find it for installation. I took the old sd card and copied the fancontrol to /usr/sbin/ Than make it executable with: chmod +x /usr/sbin/fancontrol than systemctl start fancontrol.service systemc…

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9a3eedi

December 22, 20241 yr

Dear All, I don't have much experience with the eMMC, and I wonder if I can flash this image: Armbian_22.11.1_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_5.4.225.img.xz directly into the eMMC through Etcher, or do you recommend DD instead? Thanks... 🙏

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freezr

December 13, 20223 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 froze kernel to Linux 4.14.222-odroidxu4 as my Odroid-HC1 couldn't be sometime reach with ssh when updating kernel. I get that after reboot and doing apt update, N: Ignoring file '02-armbian-periodic.distrib' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension This file is apparently created again as I remove it each time. Laurent

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emk2203

October 17, 20214 yr

Hi Armbian forum people! I'm trying to setup bcache for my openmediavault. But it seems the `bcache` module is not installed? Which means I cannot use `bcache` at the moment with openmediavault. I do know that the bcache has been added only recently: * https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9550?ref=blog.armbian.com * "Enable BCACHE on Raspberry Pi build" But no go so far.. Is there anything I can do?

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Werner

May 6May 6

I'm having trouble with the raspberry omv builds. The latest build I can get working is 24.11.1 which doesn't survive an upgrades (I've tried holding the various packages that seem to cause issues which used to work but doesn't work anymore. The suggested trouble shooting on the download page doesn't work either. Currently the 25.11.1 build is stuck in a bootloop, the only irregularity I can identify is failure to load console-setup.service message. I had a working system that lost my soundcard/DAC-hat after trying to address update error messages which's what started this whole refresh process

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0jay

November 27, 2025Nov 27

So my sshd service won't start after a system upgrade. I have no uart access, so currently no console access. I do have access to the root drive on a usb device. I suspect systemd is having a problem starting sshd from the ssh.service unit file. But I'm not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Here are the contents of my ssh.service file. I checked that /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run doesn't exist. I'm a little confused about the runtime directory, so I made a folder in the root directory called sshd with 0755 permissions, but that doesn't seem right. Strangely I couldn't find anything in the syslog file that mentioned s…

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abear

February 28, 20206 yr

Hello, I tried to use again my Helios4, but when we put the power on, only the LED8 light up. This Helios4 was working great a few month ago (before we receive the Helios64 :-) So we removed all sata cables (and fan, and power cables for hard drives) to made new tests. But still the same...:-( And the processor is hot. So, if someone have a idea to fix it. Thank you. Regard.

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pierre

February 17, 20215 yr

Actually using a zero2w but same image obv as rpi4... unable to login (refused ssh). had to switch back to the 25.2.3 build

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0jay

October 3, 20251 yr

Hi, I wanted to report an issue with the currently available Armbian images for the PocketBeagle 2 (all of them from what I can tell), that stops them from booting up. I attempted to go through the bug reporting form, but it seems to only point you to the forum, so here I am. I couldn't find a location to post about the PocketBeagle 2 board specifically, so I am putting this under the Beagle Y board (they have the same maintainer listed). Please move this to the right place (or maybe create it if it doesn't exist?) or tell me how I should do this myself. The issue is in the file "/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf", where a ".dts" file is bei…

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PStinno

February 3Feb 3

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

Hey guys! I am running Armbian 22.05.3 on my Odroid XU4. Very happy with it. I just installed linux-image-edge-odroidxu4 (kernel 5.17) and rebooted. Everything hunky dory. However, once I'm on 5.17 I am unable to reboot by using the 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r now' commands, which worked on the default 5.4 kernel. Is this a known issue? Any hints on how to debug or any known workarounds? Thank you

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Guest

October 22, 20223 yr

System successfully upgraded. No problems detected (so far). Thanks to the team.

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paulhart

October 15, 20223 yr

Got notice that my Helios 4 is on it's way. Yay! But I have a question that I don't see here. I followed the topic of creating, I believe it was a raid 10 with four disks, and I think that's where I want to end up, but I only have two drives right now. Can I go ahead and start with just the two, and easily and the other two at a later date? Or would I be better off waiting until I can get the other two drives?

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Jens Bauer

February 2, 20188 yr

How to install Armbian on an eMMC module? Simply using Armbian Imager with the image file doesn't work—the system won't boot. The official Radxa OS boots fine from the same eMMC module.

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Hackerman

June 28Jun 28

As far as I can see on odroid wiki for the lcd and fan enabling the links leads to ubuntu files. I want to install latest armbian for odroid xu4q board and omv5 so I'm wondering if I can use these files or do I need some other files to enable lcd and fan on cloudshell2 + odroid xu4q and armbian?

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Igor

August 30, 20215 yr

Hi all, I've pre-ordered my helios4 and was so excited to finally receive my new NAS after a few months of waiting. I love this project and want to see this project to grow and maybe inspire others to create similar projects as this one. That said, I was really disappointed when I finally started my board and realized that the UART to micro usb was broken when I plugged it in my computer. No USB device is at all recognized(on linux nor on my mac). At first, to eliminate any potential problems, I tried at least 6 different micro usb to usb cables thinking that a cable could be broken... it happens some time. With all 6 cables tried, never did I get …

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Colink

September 24, 20197 yr

Is it me or it the mv_xor driver being loaded late? ``` [ 0.007976] xor: measuring software checksum speed [ 0.164062] xor: using function: arm4regs (2534.000 MB/sec) [ 0.316068] raid6: neonx8 xor() 1096 MB/s [ 0.452063] raid6: neonx4 xor() 1378 MB/s [ 0.588069] raid6: neonx2 xor() 1610 MB/s [ 0.724066] raid6: neonx1 xor() 1346 MB/s [ 0.860075] raid6: int32x8 xor() 328 MB/s [ 0.996072] raid6: int32x4 xor() 369 MB/s [ 1.132082] raid6: int32x2 xor() 332 MB/s [ 1.268063] raid6: int32x1 xor() 285 MB/s [ 1.268067] raid6: .... xor() 1610 MB/s, rmw enabled [ 1.665163] mv_xor f10608…

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Mangix

December 14, 20205 yr

Hi, On Odroid HC1 512GB SSD with Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_stretch_legacy_4.14.170 I've got great SSD SATA samba write speed - 110 MB/s! But I have poor only 35MB/s on Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_buster_current_5.4.19_minimal With Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_5.4.19 I have the same poor 35MB/s speed. I've done three identical installations using my checklist: Spoiler #Armbian install on Odroid HC1 # Flash Armbian_<>.img #Upgrade apt update apt upgrade #Move rootfs to SSD # Make rootfs partition fdisk /dev/sda # Make filesystems …

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Igor

March 5, 20206 yr

I've tried nand-sata-install on Armbian_22.05.3_Odroidxu4_jammy_current_5.4.199.img and Armbian_22.05.3_Odroidxu4_focal_current_5.4.199.img. Right at the end of running nand-sata-install there's an error. If I try to install anything after nand-sata-install it will hang or the SSD will go into read only mode. To be safe I tested various SD cards and USB to SATA controllers. sed: can't read /boot/boot.cmd: No such file or directory sed: can't read /boot/boot.cmd: No such file or directory Error while creating U-Boot loader image with mkimage umount: /mnt/nand-sata-install.wwpusQ/bootfs: not mounted.

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sgjava

June 28, 20224 yr

I've observed a significant difference in SSH login speed between DietPi and Armbian on Raspberry Pi 4B (headless setup). Environment Raspberry Pi 4B (headless) DietPi (recently installed) Armbian (previously used) Both systems use default settings Observations SSH login to DietPi is consistently faster than Armbian by a few seconds with default settings. Initially suspected MOTD settings, tested files under /etc/update-motd.d/. Discovered that 10-armian-header adds approximately 1 second to login time. Disabled this component but SSH login to Armbian still remained slow. Found related discussion on Ra…

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Werner

December 18, 2025Dec 18

hello i am new user of armbian and i really like it. so i am experimenting with it a little. yesterday i successfully installed armbian on one of my old laptops in the lab (Armbian Bullseye with XFCE desktop with kernel 5.15.y released on feb 27, 2023), so currently it boots from internal hard drive. today i wanted to try another image, so i wanted to do the same thing: 1. boot from USB key 2. download the new image on USB key 3. run xzcat armbian.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sda status=progress 4. reboot laptop (to new system) but the step 1 failed - instead of booting the system from USB key (yes - i selected the USB key on lap…

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bletvaska

March 9, 20233 yr

Good Morning! I'm using ODROID-xu4 and did Download your image. I wonder if the image has support for XFS Filesystem? Because I would like to install a Webserber. Grateful! Luis Ferreira

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tkaiser

May 16, 201610 yr

I con do a screenshot with scrot and a terminal, but a screenshot with the P400 and PrtScn-Key does not work. Can anybody help me please?

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pi400user

October 21, 20223 yr

Is it possible to install the x86 version in the RockPIX emmc? The nand-sata-install command doesn't solve it. Thank you

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Igor

March 9, 20233 yr

Hello, few days ago I did apt upgrade of my armbian system on Odroid HC2 and there was a reboot req cause of new kernel, so I did reboot it. It wont boot with this error (sorry for missing letters, my LCD is not able to reposition the screen output, attached usb kbd is not working, dont know why, so I just took a pict by my phone): h to partitions #0, OK is current device ing mmc 0:1... /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf eving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf ytes read in 2 ms (149.4 KiB/s) Armbian eving file: /boot/uInitrd 776 bytes read in 782 ms (20.2 MiB/s) eving file: /boot/Image d to load '/boot/Image' ing Armbian for failure retrieving kernel T FAILED: con…

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VictorC

September 9, 20215 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

Hi, I've got since several days an issue with armbian-truncate-logs. I received mail alerts from cron as this one, error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log.hdd/mysql/mysql.log /var/log.hdd/mysql/mysql-slow.log +/var/log.hdd/mysql/mariadb-slow.log /var/log.hdd/mysql/error.log ' error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log.hdd/nginx/*.log ' How to debug that? Laurent

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Guest

January 1, 20215 yr

I have my ODROID XU4 configured so that the SD /boot files boot the machine on a SSD formatted to ext4. This works fine with 4.9.30, but fails with the 4.9.33 kernel I installed today. The only useful message I see is that it can't find my SSD's uuid. The uuid is correct so I suspect that the kernel does not have or is not loading a USB driver. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to boot using the 4.9.33 kernel? Thanks, Michael

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tkaiser

June 26, 20179 yr

I used the Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT Image from https://www.armbian.com/odroid-xu4/. When i checked the boot messages with journalctl -b, then i can see the message -> "system vulnerable" Later i can read the message "Spectre BHB: enabling loop workaround for all CPUs". Is this a fix for the first warning message, or is my system vulnerable? Dec 16 20:32:58 odroidxu4 kernel: smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... Dec 16 20:32:58 odroidxu4 kernel: CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 1, mpidr 80000101 Dec 16 20:32:58 odroidxu4 kernel: CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 1, mpidr 80000102 Dec 16 20:32:58 odroidxu4 kernel: CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, …

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Werner

December 18, 20241 yr

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! 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 Guys, I tested both the odroid official and armbian images for the XU4. Both run well, but I prefer the armbian image. I have attached my 800x480 hdmi display, it works, but there's a purple line at the left side of the display. ( I think it's one pixel wide) This is not the case with the odroid official image, so I guess it's a configuration issue. I took a look at the boot. ini file, but I don't see anything that rings a bell. Can somebody point me to the right direction?

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mrroland

June 7, 20188 yr

hi, i try to install the current IOT/minmal image on the intern ssd on a old thinclient. USB-Drive will ident as sda and the ssd as sdb. if i use on armbian-config the install script for install, he create two partitions (sdb1 &2 / efi & linux) but it only boot with usb drive. On the usb drive i has a BIOS boot partition, must i swaphis somehow to the ssd drive?

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Werner

September 24, 20251 yr

Hi, I want to try out my Odroid HC2 as an openvpn client. I don't expect great performance but I want to make sure I set it up correctly. This is why I want to ask if anyone can give any recommendations or tweaks for using it as an openvpn client. Idk much about openvpn, I know it uses openssl for de and encryption. Is there a way to use hardware de and encryption so I can speed things up and have a better download speed via openvpn? Or is hw de/encryption maybe already used by default if I just install openvpn package? Any recommendations on how to correctly set this up are appreciated.

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jshc1

August 20, 20197 yr

I recently hooked up my XU4 to a DVD/CD Enclosure, essentially just SATA to USB, and am having an issue mounting the drive. After researching online it seems this is a filesystem issue. So, I was wondering if anybody else has encountered this problem, and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks Armbian: Image: Armbian_5.37_Odroidxu4_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.71_desktop.7z Kernel: [default] 4.9.61-odroidxu4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 22 16:34:23 CET 2017 Errors: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/ceru/cdrom mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing co…

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Technicavolous

March 10, 20188 yr

BPI-F3 Introduction For this device, we can make an image using the Source Code: BananaPi_BPI-F3#_development Let's try to add support to the Armbian build system.

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Lion Wang

June 24, 20242 yr

$ systemctl status ● henry State: degraded Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 1 units Since: Sat 2022-12-03 10:19:04 GMT; 24h ago $ systemctl list-units --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● logrotate.service loaded failed failed Rotate log files $ journalctl -u logrotate.service Journal file /var/log/journal/c87d7c4913d949949100f089ec48b092/system.journal is truncated, ignoring file. -- Journal begins at Sun 2022-12-04 00:00:06 GMT, ends at Sun 2022-12-04 10:33:57 GMT. -- Dec 04 00:00:06 henry armbian-ramlog[2714]: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog: line 153: /var/log/./journal-20220019-00:00:05/c8> Dec 04 00:…

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Malbonulo

December 7, 20223 yr

Seeing the SOC go upto 80-90C, is there any fan mod or way to reduce temps? for now, added a external fan, removed the case, temps are around 50 Running OMV6 on bullseye

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Heisath

November 2, 20232 yr

I am now testing armbian on my XU4 and...AMAZING...I have very little fan noise. I am using the Noctua fan as per; http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=15310 and I haven't even implemented the fan control script [yet]; https://github.com/nthx/odroid-xu3-fan-control Silence is golden... armbian ROCKS!

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Igor

October 6, 201610 yr

I just got a new XU4 and I tried to run both the official ubuntu 18.04 image with linux 4.14 and the armbian stretch 4.14 image (both minimal). I can hear a constant electrical squeaky noise (similar to noise from certain power supplies, usb chargers, etc) coming from the XU4 when running Armbian. The same noise is not present in the Ubuntu image. This occurs immediately after first boot (no additional configuration) and is constantly there. This is especially noticeable when the fan is off. Has anyone experienced this before?

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IBuyUndervaluedMemes

May 2, 20197 yr

Today I wanted to upgrade from jessie to stretch, I'm following this website. After changing the word jessie to stretch in /etc/apt/sources.list and in every file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* I noticed that changing the omv-extras-org.list from: # OMV-Extras.org deb https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/erasmus jessie main # OMV-Extras.org Testing deb https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/erasmus-testing jessie main to # # OMV-Extras.org deb https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/erasmus stretch main # OMV-Extras.org Testing deb https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/erasmus-testing stre…

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trohn_javolta

August 14, 20188 yr

Hi friends, I use armbian for long time, but these days I change my borad to RaspberryPi 4B. However I can not get kernel startup serial output from RPI as usual on the board. Does anyone has more information about that? What I want to do is a atonomy driving experiment environment. And I don't have monitor or keyboard attach to it. I will patch preempt_RT to get the RT linux kernel, so it's difficult for me to pull the RPI out of the test bench everytime and put back after setting the ssh or something everytime I flash new kernel or image. The armbian version I use is Armbian_23.11.1_Rpi4b_jammy_current_6.1.…

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He Qichen

April 3, 20242 yr

I have a `.dts` file built on Raspberry Pi OS for Raspberry Pi 5, that has following section allowing to provide options to both userspace `dtoverlay` and as parameters in `/boot/firmware/config.txt`: __overrides__ { rotation = <&cam_node>,"rotation:0"; orientation = <&cam_node>,"orientation:0"; media-controller = <&csi>,"brcm,media-controller?"; cam0 = <&i2c_frag>, "target:0=",<&i2c_csi_dsi0>, <&csi_frag>, "target:0=",<&csi0>, <&cam_node>, "VIN-supply:0=",<&cam0_reg>; }; Then following use: sudo dtoverlay -v ovaone cam0=on Overrides proper…

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Michał Fita

August 6, 20242 yr

Hi my good old helios4 with OMV had been running for few years without big issue. but it suddenly lost all SATA HDD. OMV shown the 2 HDD are missing. i reboot it and during the boot i saw couple of error, failure... so decided to reinstall armbian by a new SD card. but tried 2 new cards with new images.. i got same error ... as attached log file. it seems during booting the kernel, not sure it is u-boot or kernel report it cannot find the root file system. i am not sure it is the SD card issue or it it the Helios4 board issue or any other issue. could anyone help? bootlog.txt

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heliosFR

January 11, 20251 yr

Hello all! After upgrading to OMV 7 and Debian 12 my OLED display remains dark. I am using Kobol Helios 4 NAS. Can anyone tell me where the problem is? When i try to execute git clone https://github.com/kobol-io/sys-oled.git cd sys-oled sudo ./install.sh I get the following error message via SSH. Installing luma.oled library error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install. If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m ve…

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Tearran

August 31, 20242 yr

I am trying to set up serial communications over the CON10 connector (UART0 pins 4,5,6,8) to another board (BeagleBone Black) to transmit data parsed as strings between the boards. Based on this link, this should correspond to /dev/ttySAC0. I have been unsuccessful in achieving communication via these pins and device node. In using setserial to probe the port settings, I was concerned about the following output: setserial /dev/ttySAC0 /dev/ttySAC0, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ 83 In using dmesg to probe for more information, I found an identifier for SAC0: dmesg | egrep -i 'serial|tty' [ 1.020896] [c4] 12c00000.serial: ttySAC0 at MMIO 0x12…

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r1ch1er1ch706

November 16, 20178 yr

Hello everyone, I am thinking about moving the Helios4 into a Inter-Tech SC-4100 case. The backplane in that case has only one Molex powerconnector. So is it possible to combine both power connectors on the board (J14 + J19) into one ? https://wiki.kobol.io/helios4/img/hardware/board_legend.jpg Thanks Br, Joe

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DocViper

April 7, 20215 yr

Hi! I'm attempting to activate FS-Cache on a HC2 with a 512GB SSD. I want to cache reads from other servers with NFS shares using mechanical HDDs over GbE. I run PLEX on the HC2 with SSD and the media is stored on other HC2s running OMV, with big mechanical HDDs. I figure that I can use a good chunk of the SSD to reduce the network traffic and the HDD use. I successfully use FS-Cache on a Ubuntu 18.04 laptop, together with autofs. But when I attempt to start FS-Cache on my HC2 with Bionic Armbian I get: Oct 17 23:25:34 ctrl systemd[1]: Starting LSB: CacheFiles daemon... Oct 17 23:25:34 ctrl cachefilesd[11217]: * Starting FilesCache d…

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Adoby

November 1, 20187 yr

if you sudo apt upgrade the firmware package for the q6a breaks wifi and i believe ethernet... I do not have a concise fix for this i reflashed my device with the latest build after doing it originally to get wifi when validating the issue i had backed up the firmware etc for the default network drivers after upgrading broke the networking drivers had to restore firmware from previous build.... Would give a fix but aint that easy if you already upgraded you need to download the previous firmware put on usb stick and slap it on either that or figure out whats broken in the last one this is kind of rambling but yeah just be careful upgrading

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rsbuffalo

February 23Feb 23

I’m relatively new to Armbian, have been running it with XU4 for couple of months. Otherwise working very well, but there’s occational (once a month) full system hang/crash or something. This is a remote server with constant load (video surveillance) and when it happens, all connectivity is of course lost and I think it can be only resolved locally with full power cycle. I’ve not yet tried to attach HDMI monitor when it’s in the crashed state, but will do it next time. Although not very optimistic if that works at all. There are nothing obvious in the logs, or it might be that I don’t know where to look. Are there any general advice what to do, how to figure this out?…

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bceylon

January 11, 20197 yr

I already posted the question in the Odroid forum. I decided to post it here too since it may be more inherent to the Armbian OS. I used both Armbian_23.02.3_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_5.4.239.img from the odroidxu4 archive and Armbian-unofficial_23.11.0-trunk_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_6.1.63 generated from the Armbian build script. (Base CLI Image). After flashing the former image and then installing OMV6, this is the output that OMV6 gives me when installing the openmediavault-wireguard plugin: Spoiler Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following additional packages will be in…

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cidra

November 30, 20232 yr

OK, so while documenting the Armbian patch process I needed something actual to patch. I added gpio-line-names to the device tree, so now all lines are defined. Once I finish the documentation I'll PR this patch. No more guessing what physical pin is! At some point it might make sense to put in jumper and physical pin #. Spoiler gpioinfo gpiochip0 - 8 lines: line 0: "GPY7.0" unused input active-high line 1: "GPY7.1" unused input active-high line 2: "GPY7.2" unused input active-high line 3: "GPY7.3" unused input active-high line 4: "GPY7.4" unused input active-high …

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sgjava

December 13, 20205 yr

Hi, after some time on storage i tried to reativate my batch 2 helios4 only to be greeted with a seemingly broken device. Tried the following: 1. Flashed a new good SD Card with Armbian (golden sundisk one) 2. unplugged all harddisks in my helios 4 3. inserted SD-Card and plugged in in. Result: Orange blinking on the Network Port Green blinking next to the Power slow USB-TTY does not show up Tt does not boot I hear a slight chirping noise synchronous with the green LED. It comes directly from the board not the fans, harddisks or PSU. Sounds like a fan briefly rubbing against something but it's comming 100%…

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Nathan Driver

July 6, 20224 yr

Hi, I am running Armbian on four HardKernel HC2's and everything is working perfectly. The four SBC's are running a Moosefs cluster running Ubuntu 18.04 and Armbian 5.85, and this leads to my questions: I am trying to decide whether to upgrade as apt is proposing moving to 5.89 The change log does not currently list 5.89 and shows 5.87 as the newest. Am I missing something? When I look at previous change logs it is difficult to decipher which fixes impact the HC2/HC1/XU4. Is there an easy way to tell? How do you decide when to upgrade? Is it even worth upgrading when running more mature boards like this one? My boards run insi…

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jl_678

July 9, 20197 yr

Hi community, Context I build my own custom Arabian image on arm 32bit (prod), and experimenting running the following armbian image configuration on Qemu with console/serial only support for uefi-x86 and uefi-arm64 boards to speed up development/test. Problem I stumble upon something odd: both "uefi-*" boards are configured to only run GRUB in gfxterm mode ONLY. BOARD: uefi-86 -> BOARDFAMILY="uefi-x86". -> UEFI_GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm" [0] BOARD: uefi-arm64 -> BOARDFAMILY="uefi-arm64". -> UEFI_GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm" [1] [0] https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/2afd8fe9bb…

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David A

February 26, 20242 yr

The `hardware` menu is missing on the current build - so been trying to manually install spidev module. I did add the following lines to armbianEnv.txt but I don't see anything yet in /dev/spi* overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0

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Igor

March 21, 20233 yr

I used to boot armbian on my Thinkpad X13S, but I didn't use Linux for 6 months. I updated bios few time in mean time. Now I'm no longer able to boot from USB drive and when I select USB disk in UEFI Boot menu. I tried few different images, I also tried to build it by myself, but still it doesn't pass UEFI select menu only return to it or boots windows. I also tried to factory reset UEFI, but still it doesn't boot. I have disabled fast boot in Windows. I used ballena etcher, rufus and dd to flash images. I tried: Custom image, built 20.03.2025(Kernel 6.14). Armbian_25.2.2_Thinkpad-x13s_noble_sc8280xp_6.13.0_kde-neon_desktop.img.xz Armbian_25.2.2_Thinkpad-x13s_n…

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Mateusz Krawczuk

April 10, 20251 yr

Has anyone installed Waydroid on Armbian 26.2.4? Are there any manual for this?

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LivingLinux

August 31Aug 31

Just doing maintenance tonight on my boxen, regular `apt upgrade && apt update` on ODROID-XU4 and I noticed Debian upgraded to latest kernel (5.8 or whatever). I go look in boot and notice `uInitrd' is pointing at the new Debian version (instead of Armbian version): drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 15 19:53 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 15 19:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Nov 15 19:28 armbianEnv.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 Jun 4 15:24 armbian_first_run.txt.template -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38518 Jun 4 15:24 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882 Jun 4 15:24 boot-desktop.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12479 Jun 4 …

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TRS-80

November 17, 20205 yr

... straightforward and smooth.

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FredK

October 21, 2025Oct 21

Hello, i saw a post regarding ZFS > zfs What is the current state of ZFS support? Is it a stable to run ZFS as FS for root fs only on SD card (16-32GB)? I need that for an easy backup on FS level using send/rec commands. But as we know xu4 is 32bit only - > maybe problem with stability - stability 32bit official solution but for rpi4 Or maybe is there a point to use zfs for root fs at all? what about LMV? thanks

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Igor

June 5, 20215 yr

Greetings, As the subject says... CEC not detected in kernel, cec-client throws errors, nothing I tried worked. root@odroidxu4:~# uname -a Linux odroidxu4 5.4.239-odroidxu4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 16 15:52:54 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux root@odroidxu4:~# cec-client -l libCEC version: 6.0.2, compiled on Linux-4.19.0-14-armmp-lpae ... , features: P8_USB, DRM, P8_detect, randr, Exynos, Linux, AOCEC Found devices: 1 device: 1 com port: Linux vendor id: 0000 product id: 0000 firmware version: 0 type: Linux root@odroidxu4:~# cec-client No device type …

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Igor

May 25, 20233 yr

Odroid XU4 / Armbian 22.02 Bullseye USB3 sata drive gets randomly disconnected: (every 8 hours or so when constantly reading / writing) [44676.709229] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#24 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD IN [44676.709252] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#24 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 49 a5 1b d8 00 00 08 00 [44681.728962] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.8.auto: xHCI host not responding to stop endpoint command. [44681.749158] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.8.auto: xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead [44681.749210] usb 4-1.2: cmd cmplt err -108 [44681.749509] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.8.auto: HC died; cleaning up [44681.749696] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device numbe…

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j-be

October 30, 20223 yr

Hey Can anyone confirm the problem with under-clocking in Odroid HC1/HC2/XU4 with Kernel 4.19.14 / Armbian 5.70? I could always reach 2000/1500Mhz without a problem. Currently, after the last Armbian update from 5.60 to 5.70, I noticed a strange behavior that Odroid does not want to reach full clocks. With cpufrequtils min 600 max 2000 and "performance" and clocks do not want to go higher than 1800/1300Mhz temperature cpu 45.0 ° C. No changes just last updates nothing more was touched. After returning to 5.60 and 4.14.69 the CPU runs normally at 2000/1500 .... I also have the impression that HDD sometimes behaves strangely at 5.70 / 4.19.14 …

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jshc1

January 16, 20197 yr

I have tried all known possible combos to hide the grub menu on boot but no luck I tested on the /etc/default/grub and /etc/default/grub.d/98-armbian.cfg Is there another config file Im missing that ignores above, especially later? Tried also with custom override config at boot. Any advise is welcome

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2play

March 20, 20242 yr

I've got an NVME SSD formated to 4Kn block size which means `dd`ing the .img file to the drive isn't going to work. Is there a recommended way to install Armbian in this situation?

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trapexit

July 12, 20242 yr

I've been using a Helios4 for nearly 2 years now and it's been fantastic. A couple days ago, it stopped working though. The serial console revealed a boot loop at "U-Boot SPL" and only showing the disks, but never attempting to boot the OS. I did some forum searching and discovered the PSU could be the issue. Using a multimeter, I tested the PSU pins and I get the following (see diagram): PIN 1: +2.66V (fluctuates between 2.64-2.66) PIN 2: +2.66V (fluctuates between 2.64-2.66) PIN 3: GND PIN 4: GND What are the voltages that Helios4 expects for these pins? Should both 1 & 2 be 12V or should one be 12V and the other 5V? I already …

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gprovost

December 18, 20205 yr

Hi All , I try to install Armbian_22.08.7_Uefi-x86_bullseye_current_5.15.69_gnome_desktop.img.xz and using rufus to create bootable flashdisk to install on mini pc z83 but found the result as error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0' , is anyone here know what is the problem and what should I do? Thx in advance

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t3l3m4k0

November 30, 20223 yr

Hi all, just a quick note here that I am running 23.05 Bookworm successfully on Helios4 with ZFS. I did a clean install with a self-built image. Why the self-build? For two reasons: I wanted to have working fancontrol and that required the recent patch of @Heisath - https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5392 I ran into an issue with not being able to install kernel headers (see below) so I needed to build an image with kernel headers built-in Build steps I wanted the release version so I did this in a clean build environment (WSL2 Ubuntu): git clone --depth=1 --branch=v23.05.2 https://github.com/armbian/build And …

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FredK

July 10, 20233 yr

I've been having issues with my Helios4 becoming unresponsive when it's been up for a while. I decided to do some more thorough investigating and found that it was having problems writing to the sdcard. That led to the following entries in syslog: Dec 20 21:36:43 helios-backup kernel: [318645.034243] mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware interrupt. Dec 20 21:36:43 helios-backup kernel: [318645.034254] mmc0: sdhci: ============ SDHCI REGISTER DUMP =========== Dec 20 21:36:43 helios-backup kernel: [318645.034258] mmc0: sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000008 | Version: 0x00000202 Dec 20 21:36:43 helios-backup kernel: [318645.034263] mmc0: sdhci: Blk size: 0x000072…

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helios4noob

April 15, 20233 yr

Hi, I have a Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.10.60-mvebu with buster debian packages. Its possible to update bullseye a not lost my storage raids?

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Heisath

May 15, 20224 yr

Hi, I successfully installed and tested PiClone (or also called SD Card Copier) in Armbian 25.8.1 Trixie on a Raspberry PI 4b with SD cards and SSD via USB adapter and vice versa. Might also work on other Debian based distro's. I just leave my personal instructions here in case others need PiClone too to make copy of good working Armbian install and configuration. To be clear I am not a very advanced user, so others may know to do more efficient. But it is working here without issue. Moved to Armbian because was fed up with annoyances in DietPI, certain things being too different from pure Debian that I use on "regular" computers. Raspberry PI OS i…

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laibsch

November 18, 2025Nov 18

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

I know it is unsupported and all, but I just want to point out that running Ubuntu Focal(2020/05/03) with kernel 5.6 on Odroid MC1 has been destroying microSD cards. The board boots up fine, but after an apt-get update and a few minutes in, the Sandisk microSD card died and becomes read-only. I'm not sure if it is vendor-dependent, but I have tried out two new Sandisk microSD cards and they all turned read-only. This might be a kernel issue since on Debian Buster with kernel 5.4 or kernel 4.14 that never happened.

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bhat

May 6, 20206 yr

Hi, I really like the OS but notice that while operating the fan never turns on. It does spin when first powered up but never after that while running. Is there something additional i need to add to get the fan to operate? Thanks

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nyg

April 4, 20179 yr

Looking at various Docker images on Docker Hub, I see images for armv6, armv7, and armhf. Which are the right ones to use on an XU4/HC2?

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MikeSmith

April 4, 20251 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

Greetings, I installed Armbian Noble with gnome desktop, specifically "Armbian_26.2.1_Rpi4b_noble_current_6.18.9_gnome_desktop.img" on a Raspberry Pi 5. Updated system and installed chrome since I need to play some media from inside chromium browser. However, I checked to see that hardware accelerated video decode is not actually supported within Armbian currently. Previously I had official Raspberry Pi OS installed when I first had a look at the device and there it was enabled. It's kind of a minor thing but I've used different hardware with Armbian before and it would make things a lot easier for me if I can keep using Armbian on Raspberry Pi 5 as well.…

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LivingLinux

April 11Apr 11

I'm trying to get to the point where I can read time from the DS3231 RTC module on a Raspberry Pi 4. From what I understand, I first need to activate i2c bus, then load the kernel module that would work with the clock itself. So far i2cdetect tool fails to detect anything. There are no i2c-* devices in /dev either. I've read about "Hardware" option in armbian-config, but it's not showing up in the menu. I've also read that it's a matter of adding a device tree overlay. Does that apply for RPI4? The folder structure in /boot seems different from what documentation and several threads describe for other boards. What would be the steps for acti…

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check

January 13, 20242 yr

Hi, I am opening a new topic to make things clearer. This is a follow-up post from here: After managing to install it, I moved my Helios 4 and switched it on again. It started to work but then it shut down. I cannot switch it on anymore. I don't know if it comes from the Power supply or the motherboard. What are the solutions? Thank you for your help.

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GeckoX

December 21, 20205 yr

Hi, First using my Helios4 after I left her in my storage room. I have installed and running open media vault. I sometimes wanted to shutdown the NAS. I shutdown using sudo poweroff. Is the a soft method to turn it on again? I currently turn it on using the power switch. Regards,

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Werner

May 12, 20215 yr

Hello, is it possible to connect the helios4 directly on his tv to view his videos or photos. For example with a usb3 adapter type A to hdmi. if I understood correctly the helios4 does not have a graphic circuit from where my interrogation.

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Caribou

November 26, 20187 yr