Hello,

 

i tried to compile an armbian package for my Olimex A20 Micro board.

(A20 Micro, legacy kernel 3.4.x, Debian Jessie)

 

Because the use of Ubuntu is recommended for armbian development I installed Xubuntu 14.04 on a netbook.

(Usually I use Debian for development). I prepared the toolchain and downloaded the armbian git repository.

After start of compile.sh it lasts several hours (the netbook is *quiet* slow) and then the build was completed sucessfully.

(I only saw an error message compiling the fbxxx display driver.)

 

Next boot of the netbook the Xubuntu graphical login appears and after input of the credentials

nothing happens. No desktop. Quiet strange. Text terminal is working well.

I did two tries. First start compile.sh with root privileges. GUI damaged and I did a reinstall of Xubuntu.

Second try without root. Same behavior. GUI damaged.

 

Any idea what I´m doing wrong?

 

Regards from germany

fromcologne

 

Hello fromcologne,

 

it is better to run the Armbian tool in a plain terminal (text only) with no Graphic UI started as many UI (for example) just open the loopback device when the tool is creating the image. the UI can break the process (ok, it is still possible to unset the auto start for new "inserted" device, but it is tricky)

 

Also, I would advice to either use a VM like virtual box

 

Or just install an Ubuntu 14.04 server image on your laptop with as little tools as possible, then Armbian will install the extra tools needed

And add your favorite text editor, etc.

 

Minimal install, so no conflict.

 

Regards,

 

Guillaume