Robert Pace

After installing official Armbian_25.2.1_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_xfce_desktop.img to sdcard, then to nvme all is fine, until, I do an apt update & upgrade, after that point chromium fails to run. I explored the logs to see it a failure to load chromium.conf from /etc/chromium.d/chromium.config (failed symbolic link to /etc/armbian/chromium.config). Is there a known workaround besides utilization of firefox?

How do I change the default desktop environment on Debian 12 startup from cinnamon to xfce4? I have installed xfce4 and it's related "goodies", added a .Xclients file containing "startxfc4" in both root and ~/ folder locations. But the unit sometimes boots back into cinnamon. I do not see anything under armbian-config to control the desktop environment or to switch between cli/gui. I recall such options under orangepi-config (at least the cli/gui switching).

I have installed Armbian 25.02 via an official Armbian image for Armbian 25.02 (Debian 12) Vendor Kernel 6.1.xx, is it possible (and sane) to upgrade to Armbian 25.05 (Debian 12) Vendor Kernel 6.1.xx? If so besides downloading the new image and installing fresh what are one's options?

I think I figured out the expert=yes switch a few days ago and built a test vendor kernel image. Works splendidly with the exception of an issue with screen not recovering from going to sleep or some such. Thanks for your assistance eselarm and Werner for the sharing of your expertise.

I would love to use Armbian Build to construct a Debian 12 Bookworm images with KDE Plasma as the windows manager. I note that KDE Plasma isn't an option in the armbian builder. I have no problem building with XFCE or Cinnamon.

I figured out the issue, after testing multiple EMMC modules. A pin on the connector on the SBC was bent and contacting a neighboring pin. A small needle tool was used to separate the overlapping pins of the connector followed by a clearing of MTD and reinstall of OS from 6.1.99 vendor image of Debian 12 was all that was needed to detect the 233GB emmc modules via lsblk command. I note that attaching the emmc module to connector is easier when the emmc has a heatsink added to assist in seating the module.

wget in WSL works with the links for me. I think the issue the within chrome may have something to do with http (not https), when I change http in the link to https it works, or if I browse to the .testing folder. Odd.

https link isn't functioning. I click and a new window opens and rapidly closes without automatic download. Using the latest Chrome (Version 135.0.7049.85 (Official Build) (64-bit)) within Windows 11 Pro, no pop-up blocker enabled.

Domain resolves, but ftp is not responding, hence links don't work.

I used the following image on a microsd card as the source of the bootloader. I note that most of the armbian website's Orange Pi 5 Plus images either fail to support EMMC for me, or lack I2C-2 support in the overlays. I thought perhaps this issue is due to me using a 32 gb ram variant of the SBC, but the missing EMMC is present on 16gb variants as well. I reinstalled a ubuntu environment and compiled the vendor 6.1.99 image for Orange Pi 5 Plus (Debian Bookworm, Full Desktop image), and it boots fine, but no EMMC. A boot from an orangepi5.org debian 12 image does include emmc support, and i2c2-m0 functionality, but does lack functional xrdp.

It was wiped, and U-Boot from the sdcard (from a armbian build image) so the unit can boot to NVME.

The wiping of SPI & SPNOR were themselves successful processes, the access to EMMC was not. I note this is the 32gb ram variant of the Orange Pi 5 Plus. I have also tried multiple 256 GB EMMC modules, each zeroed out via RKDevTool 3.19. Let me know if any other details would be handy in the diagnosis of this issue. https://paste.armbian.com/rakukijuju

Is there a list of Armbian Kernels that include EMMC support? I've tried the vendor kernel build 6.1.99, the LTS 6.12.21, and Bleeding Edge 6.14.0 to find they all lack the mmcblk0 under /dev/ , and lack overlays for it under /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlays/. I have wiped SPI and SPNOR without success.

I note that edge (6.14.0-rc4) also lacks the i2c2-m0 overlay, so I believe the only function build for i2c2-m0 is found in the older Armbian-unofficial_25.02.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.84_xfce_desktop.img image.

After renaming it showed up in overlays in armbian-config, but takes a good minute to scan the i2c-2 bus, so not a solution for this issue. I note under that a bme280 sensor should show up under address 76 via i2cdetect -y 2. The sensor works fine with same hardware (after installing overlay for I2C2-M0 in armbian-config when using Armbian-unofficial_25.02.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.84_xfce_desktop.img. armbianmonitor -u report: https://paste.next.armbian.com/zanaqiwici Problematic Image: Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_xfce_desktop.img SBC: Orange Pi 5 Plus (32gb) Kernel: Linux orangepi5-plus 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Fri Feb 21 18:11:03 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux List of overlays in /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlays/*i2c*.dtbo after copying rk3588-i2c2-m0.dtbo to rockchip-rk3588-i2c2-m0.dtbo