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I changed a part of structure which looks more or less clear, but let's do some double checking before we move everything here and there
- tutorials which are currently everywhere, mostly under Technical support. There could be also "Tutorials" pinned topics with pinned tutorials, like Tony suggested.
- each subforum in here should have "Readme first - FAQ" tagged with "IMPORTANT" with most common questions -> link to answered topics as Thomas proposed. I added hidden post into Allwinner A20 section as example - unhide when done. You should have the power to do so.
It is also possible to make use of "Forum rules". Currently this is the text: Use search before starting new topic - add questions to existing topics - support on private messaging is ignored - humans are not error free, be polite.
- what to do with "Preview of this and that" board from Free? I would suggest moving SD card performance, storage benchmark and similar at least to "Technical support / common" section?
- current "Project and services" should be split into other forums and section removed?
- we have "Allwinner A64/H5", but we don't support. Should remain simply under Development?
- Build tasks? Merge / remove?
- community projects: 3rd party, deprecated and exotics boards, ... this part is still a bit confusing to me.
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Armbian is community driven open source project. To keep it relevant and up to date it needs maintenance round the clock. This work is done by a small amateur contributor force which was under-powered since early days and it still is. For most basic tasks!
Any help is more then welcome.- https://forum.armbian.com/staffapplications/ (what do we need)
- https://docs.armbian.com/Quick_facts/ (overview)
- https://www.armbian.com/get-involved/ (how-to contribute)
- https://github.com/armbian (sources for build engine, documentation, scripts) <---- <---- <---- Also refactoring, better wording, code cleanup.
General tips:
- plan to do things you understand.
- expect little to no guidance.
- focus on common needs and forget what is important only to you.
- start small.
If you still don't know how to start, attach your questions below in the topic. -
Any objections for rebuild and update?
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4 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:
Since wireless now works for me on mvebu-next I reverted your last commit for now and added the patch to sunxi-next and mvebu-next. More tests needed (obviously).
It works for me to, cubox-next, ath10 and brcmfmac.@tonymac32
Reboot reboots.U-boot on eMMC:
U-Boot SPL 2017.05-rc3-armbian (May 04 2017 - 15:10:29)
Returning to boot ROM...U-Boot 2017.05-rc3-armbian (May 04 2017 - 15:10:29 +0200)
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I revert cubox and clearfog, for sunxi I am bit confused what to remove and what to leave due to overlay support ... and Tinkerboard / MiQi @TonyMac32, shall we go back to 4.9 with NEXT too?
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We have idea, but lack of time, to provide IOT / slim version, which means rework (put under switch) those sections + conduct few tests ...
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/configuration.sh#L103-L139
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/distributions.sh#L105-L106
Other option is do uninstall certain - non relevant to your case - packages.
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11 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said:
Client or AP? Can it be easily reproduced on any other boards (sunxi-next, sun8i-dev branches) so I could try to capture a crash log?
Client, ath10, crashed also on Clearfog with 4.11. Will do more test and provide logs ... currently out of office.
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9 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:
Well, also I could reproduce on Hummingboard when trying to connect wireless - it instantly crashed on 4.11.5 while working fine on 4.9.33 ...9 hours ago, tkaiser said:but for whatever reasons Armbian tries to introduce update drama every few months. Why exactly?
Of course there is risk when upgrading, especially u-boot, because worse case boot breaks ... but kernel upgrades are more flexible since it "only" breaks some part of functionality at worse. Like in this example. Perhaps this upgrade procedure should be divided and provide more selective relevant upgrades. That should limit down problems.
9 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:I believe we have an option now
Also possible to apply it to images by default and we gain stability - user must act to get latest updates. Like on deprecated boards. -
Another small example:
https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4557-blank-password/#comment-34201
This question was posted to Allwinner H3 section but it's unrelated to hardware - it's very general question - better to be moved one level up, to general section. -
6 hours ago, t-bob said:
something like:
wifi - working since 1/6/2017
usb - working since 1/4/2017
bluetooth - NOT working. No ETA. Developer assigned
hdmi - Not working. No ETA. See https://linux-sunxi.org/blahblah for more information
gpio - not working. no eta. no developer assigned
12c - not working. no eta. no developer assigned
This job is for anyone with minimal inside knowledge. Related or unrelated to Armbian.Again - "no support" means we will not provide any information regarding state and problems of moving experimental things. It's expensive and provide negative results. Double negative from our perspective.
When things are good enough for bare server usage, similar kind of report is found at download page - this and that is not working, ... Currently there are too much problems and no one out of five active developers would like to have yet another burden. We don't want that experimental images are used by end users in first place. Some even use those unfinished work in production and are saying that we are losers and idiots, because upgrade break their wonderfully working system. Yes it happens. It happens way to often and there is no compensation. They don't support as in any way but expect full support from us.
We came to conclusion that we will not share any information (for end users) regarding WIP work. Developers can find and acquire information from Github commits, from ours an upstream. Everything relevant is written there, but to write a summary ... anyone can.
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Shall we go back with sunxi and cubox NEXT to 4.9.x and push update out since:
https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4254-cryptdisks-fail-with-new-kernel-41012/#comment-31614
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Recent hot debates sparked many ideas, but no need to rush. Rome was not built in a day
Rearrangement outdated forum structure should also improve the situation - at least we have to get the best out of forum, even it has limitations, which were exposed and I am aware of it.
Few concrete ideas for reshaping the structure - what if we clearly divide support forum into stand alone section - we isolate section "Technical support" only for: "Allwinner A10/A20 Allwinner H2/H3 Allwinner A64/H5 Amlogic Freescale i.MX6x Other boards"
Than we have section, which does not live very much and should also be redesigned:Projects and services
Reviews
Support of deprecated boards / old board support
3rd party armbian builds, etc.
Development
I propose to merge / remove Armbian build framework and Armbian Tasks into Development.
Free / rearrange
Move everything up to corresponding forums, what can be moved. This part was never meant for technical stuff but more for casual stuff like: "I have a new cat - what do you think?" stuff -
On 20. 6. 2017 at 9:38 AM, 8BALL_SA said:
Using the network manager, if I disable and then enable the wifi then everything works for a while.
It looks like a network-manager issue. I could reproduce ... but it only failing when trying to connect from windows machine while working fine when connecting from Linux.
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54 minutes ago, Asterion said:
That is, card erased and distro image burnt on SD, first boot into system, enter root then 1234, enter a new root password, goes away a few seconds and then the error comes up.
username: rootpassword: 1234
repeat the password: 1234
new password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
repeat new password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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3 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said:
In my opinion this is too much, so we should disable some nightlies fron this list too.
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Compilation usually hangs / takes hours if SD media is from other century (extremely poor 4k performances). This one looks o.k. which probably means this: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/3915-upgrade-time-cross-compile-kernel-on-another-machine/&do=findComment&comment=28620
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35 minutes ago, znoxx said:
What do you think, which kernel to pick for downgrade ?
I guess roll back to previous version (4.9.7) should do the job.
apt install linux-image-next-sunxi=5.25 linux-dtb-next-sunxi=5.25Than go to armbian-config and freeze kernel upgrades until this is not solved ...
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If your power supply is below 1.5A / low quality, than strange random problems might happen in such configuration: board + mouse + keyboard + HDMI screen + wireless ... and we are back to basic hardware problems written in https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/
Quotea proper power supply according to the board manufacturer requirements (basic usage example: 5V/2A with DC Jack barrel OR thick USB cable)
Even you have a good one, just make sure to test with different one and remove all from USB ...
Is this the case?
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50 minutes ago, 8BALL_SA said:
What ssh server does Armbian use by default?
Default / standard open-ssh server which works perfectly well for millions of people. Problems are not on this level ... Dietpi is illusion of choice, copy of Armbian, it uses our kernel, builds system, everything what is relevant and it should behave the exact same way. Bugs present in Armbian (if this is a bug at all?) will be present there as well.
I hope you don't use experimental images? They are not ready for usage. -
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I put torrent server on Lime 2 and some stress testing scripts on Cubietruck with 4.11.5-sunxi ... I want to see then crash
... only one day up time, so hard to make any conclusions yet.
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You mean that you will start directly in desktop?
You need to login once to create a username, than desktop goes on and next time you will be running desktop ... if you downloaded desktop image in first place, otherwise you need to repeat the job. Check docs.armbian.com for basics. -
18 minutes ago, blaster_56 said:
I'll try anyway and if its not working i'll contact aliexpress to stop selling this default product until problem fixed.
I am almost 100% that it won't work - there are zero relevant changes to sources between 5.30 and today. Still wanna try? Those are development boards and if something is not working perfectly fine, nobody cares since most such things are fixed with software ... We have one (few?) known case(s) and there are 10.000+ happy Orange pi Zero users. Nobody will believe ... even I was initially very sceptical. It also could be some hardware damage, which can happen.
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Just now, blaster_56 said:
I have the version 1.4, Ethernet not working 100% on version 5.30, i'll try to build from source and try the new Image.
You will only waste time - building from sources won't make any difference.
If this new hw revision is changed to the degree that Ethernet stop working, than we have a problem which need close examination. First I'll wait for others to confirm non working network on v1.4 than I'll ask board maker what was changed and why.
Cubieboard1 problem running from nand <fs mount fail, jump to fel>
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I guess you are not using latest system? Can't find such option in our script:
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/scripts/nand-sata-install/usr/lib/nand-sata-install/nand-sata-install.sh