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Well, I've read that its a hard thing to execute successfully, so I'm not terribly worried. Thank you Igor. Stay safe.

I've had a power failure so it has been rebooted. Apparently there is something at the exit of its making a new initramfs causing a lockup of the shell it ran in. I now have it netting via a plugged in radio, but wifi is still on the 2.4GHZ band for both ipv4 and ipv6. There is a CVE against ipv4. What is the status of that fix? uname -r: 6.18.44-current-meson64 Thank you Igor, Gene

ANAICT it only shuts down the HDMI output, by first an auto-logout, leaving that screen up for maybe 15 minutes, then shuts down the HDMI leaving it headless, but if I leave t-bird running when I go to sleep, it continues to suck in emails from the lists I'm subbed to. I wake up, wiggle the mouse to wake up the HDMI, and re-select that input on the tv with its remote, log back in and things are back to normal with 5 to 15 new emails. I replied to this once, but cannot find it the next morning. Diff thread maybe? One thing that would help forum use since you don't have a mailing list, is a button to find ones own posts quickly. They are being shown to me in the right hand panel in firefox now but its taken may clicks to achieve from a cold login. You are in what could be troubled real estate, please stay safe & well.

one of the things the user cannot do from the xfce settings menu is disable the no-activity shut downs, I assume because the user has no permissions to mess with the defaults. So while I have the user set to 0 time in the power management screens, it continues to do a shutdow of the HDMI output in about 20 minutes. Since this only draws 15.5 watts, and the shutdown causes the 42" vizio tv to go back to the tv mode. So where and what,, I assume in the /etc directory, should I edit as root to stop this??? Thanks, Gene

IDK what is different, but this is around the 10th install of 26.08.1, and suddenly sound is working. Now despite turning off all the timeouts, it still blanks the hdmi output, which in this case goes to a 42" Visio TV. So anything left running, like T-Bird is running headless as the visio tv reverts to network tv after I've gone to bed, blowing me back out of bed with the tv sound, so how do I turn that off, I want to stay logged in forever. Thank you Werner. Cheers, Gene

What am I missing, sound has only the dummy_output, I can see it in the volume_control's gui vu meter, but nothing comes out of the hdmi's speakers or on a plugged in set of headphones. 2404 worked just fine. Please advise?

I managed to destroy the 2404 u0-sd so I'm back on the 26.08 u-sd card, all upto date except 12 pkgs. So I thought it ought to be safe, but synaptic seems to have dome something to get stuck for around 2 hours now, supposedly generating a new initramfs for 6.18.44. The machine is still alive, I expect to be able to send this post with it stuck. The u-sd is a 32G & reasonably fast for smaller files. I've run htop w/o finding anything obviously related to building a new boot file. The log is uninformative. Send it a kill and the prompt is back instantly. Has anyone a clue?

I have succeeded in making t-bird use the raid6 as its mail storage area. Much, much faster. The read6 is mounted at /raid6 but I own it, the whole thing. Not a total solution but very helpful. Cheers, Gene

I have built a backup server out of a bpi-m5 I bought a pile of 2 years back. Using two high speed usb3 hubs to spread the load current enough the hub don't shut down. 5 ea 4T SSD's on usb3 to sata cables made an almost 12T raid6 that reads and writes at 600 megabytes/second. But I've now repurposed it to be a general do anything box while I finish out my time on this ball of rock & water. I'm now 92 My instant problem is that the latest 2608 img fails networking, so I've backed up to a noble img, where everything but t-bird runs just fine. 2 problems, 1st being that t-bird has no findable place to modify the mail servers PW, you must blow the whole install away just to try a different PW. tbird is 140.16.0esr (aarch64) from the about screen. Secondary problem is the speed of the u-sd it boots from. My attempts to make tbird use this /raid6 which I as user can use, fails, insisting on creating the local directory tree for local storage on the u-sd. That's redefining slow, so how do I convince T-bird to use this 100x faster storage? This raid6 uses the RH gfs2 file system. For obvious reasons I want also to move the /home/me/Downloads to this raid6. If anybody can help, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks & Cheers, Gene

And the email system for is emailing with me erroneos info about bedno report 2x a day, so call off the quard dogs, it been solved without any help from this forum. you've been yelling about dhcp w/out once offering me a single clue as to how I should configure it even when I showed you the results. FYI I have been doing odd things with little machines for a lot longer that most of you have been breathing on your own starting with an rca 1802 in 1978. Do any of you have a track record that long? That bit of production tooling for a medium market tv station was still in use 20+ times a day when the station burned to the ground in the late 90's. I prefer to call it efficiency since most production equipment at a tv station is so heavily used & long since worn out before the IRS lets them amortize the cost. I am also a CET, a test 95% of the EE's out there cannot pass. I call a backup server that draws 19 watts at full song in the middle of backing up 8 machines here, efficient. Took me a while to figure it out the hardware and around $1500 in hardware. But it works as fast as my cat6 wired local net can run.

I've wasted 2 days now, screwing around trying to make netplan work and not getting anywhere. So I've taken a screenshot of what works on my e5p. I will nuke the 25-04 image I have and dl a fresh one but to test that idea, I'll first get the card from the e5p and see if it works in this one. But first I'll dl an image of the e5p card. And I may have a clue dd died w/o an error at 64G of a 128G card. So now that image is being written to another 128G u-card to see if it becomes an e5p when booted and the network works in which case i'll edit the hostname and see if it is amanda when repowered again. It was pings yahoo.com like it has a license. At 192.168.71.122 at which point I edit the netplan to put it back at amanda's address of 192.168.71.2. If that works, and it did, install gfs2 & 57 deps and mdadm & see if the /raid6 appears on a pd reboot. It did as /dev/vg0/myraid so while this has been a looooong slog, it all works even if its not an approved method. That img has quite a pile of gcode as it been a 3d printer for over a year. burned up a hot end and 20+ kg of filament. All that can go. And its gone quite nicely so far, got the /raid6 stuff installed and its been making a new 6.18 initramdisk img for about 20 minutes. Assuming its found the raid6 and has to fsck 11.2 Tb it might take a while. The busy circle is still rotating. But its still rotating with a new msg, something about permissions despite me being root to run synaptic. But that did NOT prevent it from rebooting from a powerdown. Or preventing me from mounting the /raid6 after creating its mount point. And recovering from that raid6, the rsync based backup driver script that fills it. I'm logged into it from here and here is a df report: gene@amanda:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 385288 6424 378864 2% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 60102260 12713940 46688204 22% / tmpfs 1926424 0 1926424 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 1926424 68 1926356 1% /tmp /dev/zram1 47960 1524 42852 4% /var/log tmpfs 385284 92 385192 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/mapper/vg0-myraid 11272913680 533576604 10739337076 5% /raid6 So it even thinks /dev/mmcblk01 is a 60G drive, apparently because the one I copied was a 64G, not a 128G like its label says. problem solved but I still haven't the foggiest what the real problem was, only that I burned up two weeks of my remaining life at 91 years old already. Now I need the fstab line that automounts it during the bootup.

which of course fails as nmtui it will not accept the dot separators in an ipv4 address needed to be entered in an ipv4 only situation. I'll repeat as I have said quite a few times already, that I, in weston wv, am at least 100 miles from ANY ipv6 enabled net access. There surely are some ipv6 in pittsburg pa., 150 miles north, maybe in Charleston, 100 miles south. I have battled this using armbian-config and in using that microscopecly tiny moving radiation symbol at the top right of the xfce4 screen. If that is a defense to prevent ipv4 addresses where ipv6 is expected, change the box color so we know it can be skipped in real estate not yet blessed with ipv6 addresses. We are NOT mind readers any more than you are, but this particular group off us is about a 3/4 million in the whole state where flat ground to build a house on is measured in the gallons of diesel fuel to make it flat enough to build on. Fix nmtui so its actually usable and do a respin. while at it, fix whatever prevents our mounting it to edit such stuff before 1st boot. That restriction is a huge pain in the ass too. fdisk tells us its dos partition for sdc with an ext4 sdc1, but when we attempt to mount it, the ext4 cannot be found. That restriction is also present in the 25-5 release. Yet it boots & almost runs. next try?

You mix up 2 things: - 'msdos filesystem' which usually means 'FAT' - 'msdos table' which usually means 'MBR partition table' agreed Both can be up to 2 TeraBytes when sector or cluster size is 512 bytes. So no reason to change to GPT. Changing to GPT (with standard 128 entries), will use the same space as where the U-Boot bootloader is located on SD-card for older Arm chips, like Allwinner A20 (original bananapi). So risk is un-bootable. which seems to be the case. but it sure as hell blocks mounting and working on the card b4 network is enabled. Why? the error reported is can't find ext4 filesystem. I'll rewrite it just to be sure its pristine. Because it did mount but only lost+found is there. next?

what is installed to be similar to tcpdump since tcpdump is not installed? the date is off about 11 months in the past which disables net resolution in dd-wrt. Apparently ARP is in play here, as I am seeing lots of this in a tcpdump =ieno1|grep amanda here on this machine but I see no answers: 16:42:20.926695 ARP, Request who-has amanda.coyote.den tell 0.0.0.0, length 46 16:42:20.926695 ARP, Request who-has amanda.coyote.den tell 0.0.0.0, length 46 16:42:20.926695 ARP, Request who-has amanda.coyote.den tell 0.0.0.0, length 46 16:42:20.926695 ARP, Request who-has amanda.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:21.470873 ARP, Request who-has amanda.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:23.288701 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:24.320147 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:25.344176 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:26.370963 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:27.392224 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:28.416249 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:29.445598 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:30.468289 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:31.488315 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:32.513828 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 16:42:33.536356 ARP, Request who-has router.coyote.den tell amanda.coyote.den, length 46 So the protocol is at least transmitting from amanda. This is evidence of dd-wrt ignoring the wrong timestamp because amanda's date is about 11 months out of sync. there is no settime installed so there's no way for be to manually fix that. I got this bit of info by commenting out the "pool" lines forcing chrony to use the "server 192.168.71.3 iburst" in the chrony subdir servers.d/ file. So I wrote another copy of the latest Armbian_26.2.1_Bananapim5_noble_current_6.18.15_xfce_desktop.img to another new 128G card, and fdisk then id's it as having an msdos partition table, skipping 8k and having a 6.4G ext4 as /dev/sdc1 and undefined for the remainder of the card. So I quit fdisk and ran gparted on /dev/sdc/ and selected data recovery. Which warned that it would take a long time, 6.5 hours later its still scanning. blue bar slowly marching back and forth in the progress line at the bottom of the gparted screen. Hopefully recovering enough data to write a valid ext4 partition table & see if /dev/sdc1 is mountable AND bootable. I have since found a cli reboot won't, but a powerdown will if the card was written with a bs=4096. That is where I am with backups of the whole houses still sitting in a /raid6 I can't rebuild w/o net access to install both gfs2 and mdadm from the repo's. So this is a trail report, not a success story. if this fails. I get a 6 pack of 32Giggers which I know WILL work with an msdos table. But that doesn't give the cards adequate room to do housekeeping meaning they will fail in less then a year. Once working I have not had a failure of a 64G card or a 128G card.

I'm sorry but, lmao, this is entertaining to read. The sd card is OBVIOUSLY corrupt, it even TELLS YOU THAT in what you posted. But you think what I am seeing should tell me it fubar. That fact that this configuration works perfectly for 6 or 7 other machines in this house long string of cat5 or cat6 cable seems to be blowing right on by. This can't be true for all 4 u-sd cards I''ve tried. The last 2 were brand new, even faster rated cards, but all are 128gig sandisk's 1: the image itself has a dos table, which doesn't work above 32gigs acc what I have read and this prevents mounting the written images for installation in a card reader, but the used partition is ext4, so it boots ok but takes a long time because the net failure blocks the boot for many minutes 2: so I back up to a 25_05 image, and at one time had it booting the 6_18 kernal, but still no net which is the original problem. ATM I am wasting my time on a 25_05 build image which is running just fine on another bpi-m5 driving a 3d printer about 10x faster than OOTB. So I'd suggest you pass this one off to someone who knows how to make a 50 line /etc/hosts file work without a dhcp because I'm doing it on 2 other wintel boxes, an rpi4b running bookworm and 3 bpi-m5's running noble on 3d printers. The best I can do is post a pix of the 'netplan status --all" screen and somebody tell me whats wrong instead of berating me for not running a dhcp server properly.