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    banana pi pro image build

    in Software, Applications, Userspace

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    11 hours ago, Cancer said:

    However it would need either a lot of time or information delivered when it has been broken


    When things are not actively monitored, features stopped working without knowing. This has to be find out.

     

    11 hours ago, Cancer said:

    too many kernel versions and distributions

     

    At least all Armbian distributions have the same kernel, regardless of its upstream origin - Debian X,Y,Z and Ubuntu A,B,C ... have same kernel. But of course kernels versions go up all the time.

     

    11 hours ago, Cancer said:

    I think you was the person managing this area so maybe you know where to search the issue to correct it or you know the person who might know.

     

    I am not managing this that deep / specific. Where to search? On this forum. I am sure that this was already brought up.

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    banana pi pro image build

    in Software, Applications, Userspace

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    1 hour ago, Cancer said:

    without docker


    This is not recommended as its not controlled environment. It might work, but no warranties.

     

    1 hour ago, Cancer said:

    I selected version without desktop

     

    HDMI output is broken in general (on this particular SoC) regardless of variant, desktop, cli, minimal. Its known bug, but we currently don't have anyone maintaining Allwinner A20 series so its up to random person to fix this. Code is open, so anyone can.

     

    1 hour ago, Cancer said:

    I use sbc as server


    Then it should be o.k. since HDMI output is not needed.

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    Separate boot partition and different root partitions → simple man’s A+B update possible?

    in Beginners

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    We have a long wish to implement OTA solution into the build framework. The problem is - like always - time / not enough man power to run another (sub)project.

     

    Instead of reinventing the wheel - better is to follow / use (learning from) experts made frameworks:
    https://rauc.io/ as a base perhaps also this https://github.com/silitics/rugix/issues/82 and https://qbee.io/docs/index.html - all as extensions.

     

    If we can join resources, to do it right, its easier. But its still timely and complex due to the nature of what Armbian is dealing with.

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    Is Netplan acting like hidden malware?

    in Software, Applications, Userspace

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    On 8/30/2025 at 10:02 AM, eselarm said:

    Pity is that recommended/supported build host environment is Ubuntu.

     

    We appreciate idea, but we have to look at the health of the whole ecosystem. Our build framework deals with many boards and non-standard low-level components (e.g., U-Boot), and right now it builds reliably only on Ubuntu Jammy. Even Noble isn’t fully compatible yet; adding Debian (unofficially, to some degree, it already works for many years) at this stage would likely cause regressions. As Ubuntu is more present in embedded world, making Debian recommended would costs a lot more from budget we don't have while bringing nothing in return.

     

    12 hours ago, Cancer said:

    Naturally, it's not about armbian itself, but generally linux related

     

    Exactly. There are many issues in FOSS and there is little we can do. We didn't develop any of those tools - we provide them. Networking stack is an important part, it has its own diversity and this should be in users domain. I think our logic for providing images is a good compromise - we provide Debian and Ubuntu images, we provide them once with systemd-networkd (minimal) and the rest with NetworkManager. Now to keep some consistency and make it simple for non experts, using NetPlan as a central config point also makes sense - for most of use cases and most of users. Those who needs special handling of net stack, its easy to replace them with something else.

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    Orange Pi 5 Pro, Blueooth, Audo ALSA config, Language and Kernel.

    in Rockchip

    Posted

    On 8/18/2025 at 12:06 AM, DanflashX said:

    I can't set the language to Portuguese


    When you do first login, you need to choose correct locales combination and language in desktop should follow - you still need to install desktop packages ... If you don't have locales support in the system, you won't be able to use it in desktop. I think this is the problem. In my case, when I select my own locales (sl_SI.UTF-8) and install those desktop related packages, I have Gnome with Slovene support.

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    Armbian Linux 6.6 (Ubuntu 24.04 Noble) Cubox server image doesn't boot

    in Other families

    Posted

    3 hours ago, monetschemist said:

    When I've finally got the SD card set up, here's what the Ubuntu Disk application shows.  Note the first partition is 4.2MB of free space.

     

    This looks normal. Most of those boards have bootloaders at locations prior to boot partition.

     

    3 hours ago, monetschemist said:

    After approximately two minutes, the Cubox bootloader appears again on the monitor, hands off to the boot program, and... the same thing.

     

    Boot loop. This can be many things - i would guess kernel crash and watchdog issue restart. Why that happens? Hard to tell.

     

    3 hours ago, monetschemist said:

    But running either screen or minicom

     

    This way?

      

    sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

     

    It should prompt out something. 

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    immich created via armbian-config dont work

    in Software, Applications, Userspace

    Posted

    Philosophy behind installations via armbian-config is that install is simple as possible, thus options are limited and hard-coded. Main folder for SW data is /armbian and there you mount additional space, if needed. If this way is not acceptable, you need to go manual way. Installing Redis, PostgreSQL and Immich, then link then together. It will be some work and there will be some troubles.

    Official:

    https://immich.app/docs/install/requirements
    Unofficial:

    https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich

    Armbian way:
    https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Software/Media/#immich

     

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    No bootloader on Libre Tritium-H5 image

    in Libre Tritium H5

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    9 hours ago, mihanson said:

    and used the SD Format tool to format my uSD card.

     

    You don't need that.

     

    9 hours ago, mihanson said:

    I wrote the image to my uSD card.

     

    Most likely unrelated to this problem, but dd does not verify what was written: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#flash-to-sd-card

     

    9 hours ago, mihanson said:

    and added my .not_logged_in_yet and .rootfs_resize to the /root directory of the uSD card.

     

    Did you try booting with defaults? 

     

    9 hours ago, mihanson said:

    but the hang up at 30 seconds and pulling of power is not ideal.


    Agree, that's not normal. We are seeing some regressions on Allwinner related Crust support to https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/e76540693522baec079ec7633a918a9168ce130c (responsible for low level power management operations)

     

    9 hours ago, mihanson said:

    I'm not sure what else I can give you to debug that.


    Nothing obvious, no quick solutions based from what is seen from the logs.

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    installing Armbian Bookworm on Radxa Rock 5 ITX with NVMe m.2 SSD

    in Radxa Rock 5 ITX

    Posted

    Well, I can't tell why USB imager doesn't work nicely. I use it ... sometimes media is not recognized and restarting it usually helps and that is the only problem I experienced with it. For other issues check https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager/-/issues

     

    There is some note that might be relevant:
     

    Quote

    https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/

    NOTE: forever returning problem: the GTK version works, but the X11 version only shows boxes (or nothing) instead of text. This isn't an USBImager issue, rather X11 fontconfig problem.

     

    Solutions:

     

    Install your distro's xfonts-unifont package to fix (FYI, any other X11 font containing UNICODE glyphs would do).

    If there were no such package in your distro, then download unifont-*.pcf.gz from here, copy it under /usr/share/fonts/misc (or into any other directory listed by fc-list) and execute the fc-cache -vf command to update the font cache. After this USBImager should be able to find and use this font on its own.

    Download one of the uf versions of USBImager. These are bigger binaries because they include Unifont, but in return they don't need X11 fontconfig (nor any X11 font) at all.


    Another alternative tools is RPi Imager. 

     

    1 hour ago, justanothernoob said:

    You mention that BalenaEtcher can't handle large images


    Issues are known and those were my personal experiences while trying to understand why it doesn't work anymore. This was about a year ago, bug was filed at Balena and it seems they didn't fix it yet. Since nothing happened for months, we simply start recommending other tools. Which might not be perfect either - according to troubles you are experiencing.

     

    1 hour ago, justanothernoob said:

    Admittedly, 20 years ago I probably wouldn't have been so patient


    In custom hardware world patience is a requirement - in all directions. Maintainers / developers with users, users with maintainers / developers, maintainers / developers with hardware, users with hardware, maintainers / developers with software, users with software ... :)  

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