gene1934

<https://paste.armbian.com/bebayihagi> I did look at it, but nothing yelled at me in a quick scan. Not sure what I s/b looking at. Thank you Werner.

I had to install (they were missing) sshfs, then fuse and finally ssh on a bpi-m5, using a 128Gb u-sd as boot media. iso was noble from a week ago's download, and updated at 2nd boot after establishing my /etc/hosts file based network. I can ssh from it /to/ the main box w/o any problem. But any attempt to reverse into it /from/ another machine /to/ it is "connection reset by peer". I haven't touched /etc/ssh/*config's from default values. Is there something I need to set/reset in those files to restore incoming logins? And no, I do not enable root logins. Also, systemd is still a puzzle to me if its involved. Thanks for any advice.

Gave up after half an hour or more unplugged it for 10 secs, booted normally on power up but slow due to fchecking every drive in it, around 25Tb found the settings and turned that excrement off. Ignoring it to check. fix dinner, need a new cook, but I'd have to fire me. I think I've got it from here. Thank you, a bunch, eselarm.

However above that is a whole slew of failures "network unreachable" and ip a or ip r both show the help screen. Let me run armbian-config again, from here. Did, network didn't survive a reboot. Went to its own monitor and reran armbian-config, no net settings. reset them again. ping yahoo.com, worked. Ran sudo apt update, got 181 pkgs to update, did sudo apt upgrade -y & watched it for half an hour. Completed this time. rebooted, network survived. So I should be able to restore it from its own backups once I get it to mount the /raid6. Found it had a /raid6 dir for a mount point snooped thru /dev/disk/ to the by-id, found the file with myraid in its name, mounted it, ran df to see a normal report, then it suspended. Never did that before. Ever. Now, whats the magic potion that un-suspends it?, it went into suspension while I was logged in from here, and nothing I can do to the keyboard or mouse, local or remote wakes it up again. Power draw is down to about 7 watts. I need to totally disable that, how do it?

Using Network-manager as a slave to armbian-config, no root pw. sudo for everything. Let me see if I can login from "ssh -X gene@amanda" using the ip in my hosts file. Yes, so I can copy/paste: This is the final screen of a "sudo apt update" commend. Had to nuke my local keys first. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://github.armbian.com/configng stable Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Same thing I'm seeing on its own monitor.

I've already overwrote the failed update, so I'll need to get the latest mdadm and a few others to recover. The backup data should still be good if I could fix the os. But while this is a much more recent build than it showed me 2 hrs ago, how much longer will it have a release file? Also the Imager utility won't run on this amd64 bookworm, GLIBC is too old. Not your fault. So I wrote Armbian_25.5.1_Bananapim5_noble_current_6.12.28_xfce_desktop.img with dd, booted fine, ran Armbian config and setup the network. Switched it to rolling release. Updated apt and was refused 6 times, no release file. So I'm dead in the water w/o a paddle. So I switched it back to STABLE, same results no release files yet this was a 8 or 9 day old build. Whats going on?

Back again with a diff problem. I just tried to update 141 pkgs, from a meson-56 kernel to a meson-58 but the update died at the new initrd stage. Last update run was in November 25. Then I find on a reboot, that the noble 25.xx I was using no longer has a release file. So I dl'd the newest xfce version, burn it, boot it, get the net working & find its expired too. No updates or additions like mdadm can be downloaded. This is my backup server & has 11.2T of raid6 storage with backups of my whole 8 machine network on it. Or did have. Do you intend to support the bpi-m5 with further releases or is it now history? I know the release file timeout is not Your problem & you cannot fix it, but a respin of the latest ubuntu LTS would sure would be appreciated.

This is NOT a support request, more of a brag. Needing a backup system, I was enamored of the low power requirements to run the bpi-m5. But they have no sata ports to drive bigger SSD's. But I bought a 5 stack of 4Tb TMSC built SSD drives at $200/copy, figuring on using a USB3.2 hub and startech's usb3.2 to sata adaptors, a big drive cage and a 50 watt 5 volt psu. More than 3 drives plugged in was too much current for the hub, itgot hot & shut down, so I bought another hub & glued it to the otherside of the drive cage. Problem solved. Printed the shelves to hold the drives and a BPI-m5. I configured the 5 SSD's into a software raid6 of 11TB. A friend that is really good at shell scripts knocked up an rsync based thing that could go thru the user trees of all my machines, currently itself, this box, and all my cnc stuff in the garage, several 3d printers, a total of 8 machines, soon to be 9, making a backup of /home/gene or /home/cnc since cnc is first user on the pi running my big but old Sheldon lathe. This draws around 15 watts idling, up to 19 watts running, and does it all in 28 or 29 minutes. So that is something else these pi clones can do, and do very well. I've run it 7 or 8 times in two weeks, adding another 3d printer to the $systems list each time. Its used 4% of the 11TB so far. Using rsync the only expansion in storage is the backup copy of any file thats been changed since the last run. I love doing odd stuff like this just to see if it can be done. And it has succeeded beyond my expectations. That rpi4b running that lathe was another such "project". Started with an rpi3b which wasn't quite fast enough but its been running for over a decade, almost a decade since I switched it to a rpi4b. There, when the lathe is off, linuxcnc controls that too, the pi and monitor show as a 23 watt load. Whats not to like?

bringing up a BIG 3d printer from square one on a bpi--m5 with a fairly new image. The pager requires 10 or more mouse clicks, starting with the _ . . . . . at the upper left corner of what I think is the default xfce4 screen. All the eye candy and mouse clicks to actually switch workspaces are very distracting when one is trying to configure klipper. Can all this be reduced to a single click on the dot representing that workspace in the micro-pager? The eye candy is impressive to visiting frogs, until its a PITA when actually doing work. We buy these things in 6 pack qty's to do work, and give you a small monthly support, but impressing the frogs is maybe .0000002% of the time spent as I don't invite the frogs in to see my printer farm very often.

I've tried several recent releases back to bookworm, but the minute I turn apt loose to bring it up to date with a new kernel, in the last case 6.12.59, all /dev/sd* stuff disappears. WTH? I've been contributing to this project for several months

So how do I totally disable so access once logged in doesn't timeout in 5 minutes putting machine in sleep mode which disables remote access too? At 16 watts, it can run 24/7/365.25 doing its job which is as a backup server. Thanks all.

That seems to have gone away. ? SNILMERG... Now using very small but 1920x1080 screen, xfce terminal text is about 7 microns tall, way too small for my ancient eyes, Simplified keyboard. ctrl&shift&+ magnify's text but when big enough to read, bottom of xfce4 terminal is offscreen below bottom of screen, so cannot see command line. Is there a keycode combo that expands text independently from terminal window size? Thank you.

bananaoi-m5, Armbian 25.8.1 bookworm installed I can login via ssh as first user, gene, and sudo -i just fine. Buuuttttttt, at reboot the local screen ask's for the pw for amandabackup, a user lock down tightly which has never had a pw assigned. as its intended to be pw--less for the amanda backup system. What miss-configure can cause this????? Also I ordered 2 more of the keyboard/mouse combo''s which are the same as I'm using with a similar install for klipper running a 3d printer, but the dongle doesn't init when plugged in ack dmesg output, refusing its on discovery assigned address. So no keyboard/mouse is locally possible. I'll unpack the 2nd identical copy and see if its also broken. Switching back to an ultra- micro sized keyboard with a touchpad mouse works fine. And the second keyboard/mouse works as expected. The pw gizmo ask's for amandabackup's pw, I gave it my first user pw which it accepted logging me in normally. So I typed whoami and it responded gene. So wth is confusing the login requester????????? Many Thanks for any assistance. And why do I have to say solved in order to post when its not solved?? Counter productive to other readers.

I dropped back to Armbian_24.5.1_Bananapim5_bookworm_current_6.6.31_xfce_desktop.img and while it working, the boot find order of the drives is still random, no two boots is a row report the same lsblk order of disk vs sd* assigbnents. Only by using LABELS have I succeeded in getting them (7 drives) mounted in /etx./fstab. After that dated install an apt upgrade spent about an hour updating 270 some pkgs Just tried to get some of the other partitions mounted and usable, using LABEL= to ID them, got 2 of the 3 on a 1T toshiba drive, but found swapoff -a works, but swapon -a does not, won't even restore whats found at boot. This is from fdisk, also a reboot changed /dev/sdd into /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: MQ01ABD100V Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x481e1363 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 2048 102402047 102400000 48.8G 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 102402048 1748725759 1646323712 785G 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 1748725760 1953523711 204797952 97.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris but its not swapon-able, note the dos disklable, it s/b gpt, it was done with gparted. ?????? Is there a conversion utility to make gpt or should I wait on working keyboard/mouse kit and let gparted blow it away? So I did, changed 3 parts to 2 and refornatted both and found that swapon should use label's but fails and the reboot to do that moved the toshiba drive from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdd. Howinhell can I stabilize tiis?????

close investigation it seems to use grub, not bootp, card written does not show any activity of green led even after 10 minutes from powerup. Do you have some of the magic twanger needed to boot a pi? Thank you, gene1934

finally must have hit the target on the automount vs /etc/fstab, for future reference, I added: /dev/mapper/myvg-striped_logical_volume /dm-0 gfs2 defaults 0 1 to /etc/fstab & rebooted twice to be sure.

back to the 15TiB lvm, what can I put in /etc/fstab to make it mount automatically on boot, with RH's public version of gfs2 for a file system It mounts just fine from the cli with a pretty simple "mount -t gfs2 /dm-0" as root of course. giving a df report of: /dev/mapper/myvg-striped_logical_volume 16104789168 1057496 16103731672 1% /dm-0 Thanks a bunch. gene1934

Android? heard of it, never used it. Don't even have an operational hell-fone, chip expired years ago. root@amanda:~# uname -a Linux amanda 6.12.32-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 4 12:43:54 UTC 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux This thing is being put together to run amanda, the backup program from ancient unix history, used at CERN and numerous large medical facility's. Runs fine on wintel hdwe but has now been recompiled for arm64's. I'll put a gpt table on it and format it to ext4 & hope it reboots. Thanks a bunch, Steeman.

won;t that blow away those 2 4meg boot0 and boot1 locations that lsblk see's? What are they used for? Thank you eselarm

humm mounted it w/o formatting, ran df didn't show, and didn't reboot, had to power it down & took double the normal time to reboot. on reboot looks ok mmcblk0 appears to be the 128G u-sd card as / and mmcblk1 179:32 0 14.6G 0 disk mmcblk1boot0 179:64 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk1boot1 179:96 0 4M 1 disk appears to be the eMMC chip, however inspecting it with fdisk does not show the sub parts, only root@amanda:~# fdisk /dev/mmcblk1 Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.39.3). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Device does not contain a recognized partition table. Created a new DOS (MBR) disklabel with disk identifier 0x75f202df. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 14.56 GiB, 15634268160 bytes, 30535680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x75f202df is it safe to format to ext4? Thank you eselarm

that would be "mmcblk1 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk" So should be usable if placed in /etc/fstab? whole output of lsblk in bulky: root@amanda:/# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 48.8G 0 part /buildbot ├─sda2 8:2 0 785G 0 part /hold └─sda3 8:3 0 97.7G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 3.3T 0 part └─myvg-striped_logical_volume 251:0 0 15T 0 lvm /mnt sdc 8:32 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 0 3.3T 0 part └─myvg-striped_logical_volume 251:0 0 15T 0 lvm /mnt sdd 8:48 0 3.7T 0 disk └─sdd1 8:49 0 3.3T 0 part └─myvg-striped_logical_volume 251:0 0 15T 0 lvm /mnt sde 8:64 0 3.7T 0 disk └─sde1 8:65 0 3.3T 0 part └─myvg-striped_logical_volume 251:0 0 15T 0 lvm /mnt sdf 8:80 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdf1 8:81 0 3.3T 0 part └─myvg-striped_logical_volume 251:0 0 15T 0 lvm /mnt mmcblk1 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk mmcblk1boot0 179:32 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk1boot1 179:64 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk0 179:96 0 119.1G 0 disk └─mmcblk0p1 179:97 0 117.9G 0 part /var/log.hdd / zram0 250:0 0 1.8G 0 disk [SWAP] zram1 250:1 0 50M 0 disk /var/log zram2 250:2 0 0B 0 disk root@amanda:/# but what are the next 2 4meg boot0 & boot1 used for? uboot pointers? or?? Thank you eselarm

There is several gigabytes of eMMC memory prepasted on the bpi-m5 that I would like to train amanda's database to use as its a heck of a lot faster & longer lasting than the 128G u-sd it is booting from. What is the procedure to mount it and make it usable as r/w memory?

ok, i blew away the amtapes VG and recreated a "myvg" using the same PV list. Doesn't show except in vgscan, where it reports this: root@amanda:/# vgscan Found volume group "myvg" using metadata type lvm2 I've played the 10,000 monkeys scene with lvcreate but have only gotten errors. systemctl daemon-reload takes most of a second but /dev remains empty of any sign of something I can mount and run df on. root@amanda:/# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree myvg 5 0 0 wz--n- <16.69t <16.69t Now, following the redhat link many posts above I get to mkfs.ext4 dm-0 and it claims zero capacity. root@amanda:~# mount -text4 /dev/dm-0 /dm-0 mount: /dm-0: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/myvg-dm--0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call. dmesg says:EXT4-fs (dm-0): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem Thank you for any clarification, gene1934

I expect I have royally screwed it up but i have something mounted as /dm-0 that looks like 1% of what I expected. And I have forgotten the shell command that reports the size and % used of a mounted filesystem. Ahh, df and its report says I've created /dev/dm-0 on the 128G u-sd it boots from. So I apparently need to delete /dev/amtapes which is a link to new_volume_group which points to /dev/dm-0 and start all over again. How do I do that? I'd kill for a man page that actually explained this. An endless list of options but no defaults. Currently I think I have this: root@amanda:/# pvscan PV /dev/sda1 VG amtapes lvm2 [<3.34 TiB / <3.34 TiB free] PV /dev/sdc1 VG amtapes lvm2 [<3.34 TiB / <3.34 TiB free] PV /dev/sdd1 VG amtapes lvm2 [<3.34 TiB / <3.34 TiB free] PV /dev/sde1 VG amtapes lvm2 [<3.34 TiB / <3.34 TiB free] PV /dev/sdf1 VG amtapes lvm2 [<3.34 TiB / <3.34 TiB free] Total: 5 [<16.69 TiB] / in use: 5 [<16.69 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] But might need to recreate it from empty space now. I do know how to blank the drives.