[Kodi/XBMC on Armbian with HW Accleration possible?]

@Nasko how did your build go? Did it work for you?

 

This being the Cubietruck, I wouldn't put my hopes high for a media player but curious if you had any success

[Cubietruck ARMBIAN Debian 8 4.4.3-sunxi Rpimonitor]

What you're witnessing is well-known, support for the PMU (axp209) disappeared from 4.x kernel, then it probably re-appeared or something 

 

Take a look here though, looks like a member managed to get it working with armbianmonitor.  

[Nodejs on Orange Pi PC]

build takes may be 3-4 hours but its ok

 

lol yeah, building on the single-boards is a funny experience

time make -j2
...
...
real 94m25.207s
user 176m11.210s
sys 8m43.510s

Now let's see if we can do anything useful with node on the tiny things

[Docker on armbian!]

Pretty much what I was thinking of, thanks for confirming. 

 

Back to Docker, until we sort out the AUFS mess, I'm currently testing it with OverlayFS

[Docker on armbian!]

That was quick, thank you Igor

 

The more I give the 4.x kernel a real-use try the faster I go back to 3.x. Btw Igor, I read in another thread that you run the forum on

single-board, which kernel are you using?

 

Given that the Cubietruck sucks as a media server, I'm thinking of turning it into a web/app/storage server. Kernel 4.x would make sense but

most things are still a cat-and-mouse chase. What would you suggest if you've had a Cubietruck?

[Docker on armbian!]

Same issue as @op1tjaap:

Welcome to ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.5.1-sunxi 

john@cubietruck:~$ docker run -d -p 80:80 hypriot/rpi-busybox-httpd
docker: Error response from daemon: open /var/lib/docker/overlay/44fbad743683f30fcfbed42c5cec62e7152a7e1e81395ae22de2f738ddabc3e8-init/merged/.dockerinit: operation not permitted.
See 'docker run --help'.

The Docker guys are waiting for a patch that affects the 4.5 kernel:

 

For some reason overlayfs on ext4 treated by kernel as "encrypted" volume in new kernels.

 

 

Going back to a 4.4x kernel makes Docker happy again. Loonix sucks donkey balls.

[Nodejs on Orange Pi PC]

Yep, compiling it is bog-standard:

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzf node-latest.tar.gz
cd [node folder]
./configure
make
sudo make install

[Nodejs on Orange Pi PC]

You're right the debian repos are stuck with 0.10, but you can build the latest version yourself:

 

https://nodejs.org/en/download/ 

https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

 

I'm about to test node on the Cubietruck soon. I compiled it successfully a few days ago but since I haven't decided if I should stick to armbian legacy or vanilla, I have not done any decent testing on node yet.  

[Testers wanted: sunxi adjustments for RPi-Monitor]

Roger!

 

Thought you were still collecting info for your research. I don't need full-blown network stats on RPimonitor either, I've got a propper collectd/rrd setup on my router

[Testers wanted: sunxi adjustments for RPi-Monitor]

Here’s a fresh install of RPi-Monitor on a Cubietruck running Legacy  Jessie server  (boot from mSD, / on SATA). Most things look OK to me except for the Network stats. I’ve transferred approximately 100GBs to the Cubietruck from my file servers 

 

@tk if you need any specific info, let me know.

 

 

[[SOLVED] Graphical Su Issues - Legacy Trusty Desktop]

@tkaiser, thanks

 

What surprised me is that this is a fresh install of the latest image. Plugged a usb stick and it wouldn't mount it unless I switch the nodm settings to root as the default user, which is kinda outrageous. 

 

Yeah I thought about the polkit hell, it was common when using SLim as a display manager but it apparently has issues with the nodm as it doesn't have the X dot files scattered around.

 

Anyway, got the trusty desktop image on the NAND and now playing around with the non-gui Jessie image trying to decide what to do with the Cubietruck. Will follow back with any further findings.   

 

Update 10/4/2016: the addition of .pkla files linked to the thread that tkaiser mentions, seem to fix the problem. Marking this as solved.

[[SOLVED] Graphical Su Issues - Legacy Trusty Desktop]

Hey guys

 

I'm setting up a Cubietruck with Armbian_5.04_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.110_desktop.zip, and I cannot mount any of my unmounted volumes.

 

Installing gksu didn't fix it.

 

Any tips?