gene1934

I just updated a twin to this one, works fine after a reboot. The first ones hdmi goes away at X start, and x is not running ack htop. What else can I check via an ssh -X login?

I just updated it again, getting 6 pkgs related to X, rebooted, but no login screen.

Greetings all; I have a pile of bananapi-m5's, all used behind a home.arpa local network. I am the only one here, and no one but me will ever have access to these machines. So I need full access from any other machine on my local network. I updated one that I am slowly configuring to drive a bigger enter5+ 3d printer. New mobo in the rinter so I am starting from square one. Using klipper and mainsail as web interfaces to klipper. Now it goes to a no screen condition at about the time it used to bring up the login requester, but I can still access it via ssh -X me & my pw., but don't have full access cuz x or whatever is not running. I need it to be running a full desktop, which it was prior to the upgrade a day or so back but after I login from its own keyboard. The ssh -X login I have now has not even run udev, so klipper can't find the printer which is identified as its /dev/serial/by_id, but there is not a /dev/serial now. So, how do I make an uptodate Jammy install, think I've logged in to a fully working desktop? rpi4b's do it. Thanks all, Take care & stay well

The link to liberapay is a 404 from here. They don't want business from the USA?

There was a time, 45 years ago when I was carving code for an rca 1802 with nothing but the rca programmers manual and a hex editor in a cosmac super elf, when I would have been in hog heaven at the prospect of such an offer But now I'm 88 and have mechanical things in my heart to keep my diabetic ticker running & keeping me going. So the info traded would likely be from you to me, which doesn't pay your net bills However, there one law no one can break, TANSTAAFL. And I don't do business with paypal since their delays in approving an ebay purchase 20 years ago cost the owner of the tv station I was at, playing consulting engineer ar the time, about $50,000 in lost revenue, Rig your donation page to take my mastercard and you will see a donation as soon as I discover I can use one of my cards to pay w/o having to move it thru paypal. In the meantime Igor, take care and stay well. Cheers, <gheskett@shentel.net>

call in the st. bernards and drink the whiskey yourselves. I found it. I had plugged in a sabrent usb hub with a vivitar card reader in one port of it, preparatory to putting a klipper flash into the BTT cards I am putting into the printers. Unlug that piece of crap and it boots just fine. I'll rewrite this morning cinnamon 6.1.46 just to make sure. Take care and stay well Werner. Cheers, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>

the boot loop has a big block of a hex dump on screen for maybe 300 milliseconds before the screen blanks as it makes yet another attempt at booting, Gone way too fast to snap a picture of it. The cinnamon 6.1.46 released this morning suffers this and so does the 6.1.30 if its updated to today by apt. More later, possibly after I've swapped the m5 to a yet sealed one.

I don't have facilities or a monitor to hook up to whatever a uart is. I'm out in the middle of nowhere usa, limited to what u-sd cards I can get from wallmart. I mid prosess of writing the 6.1.30 xfce desktop img to 3 diffferent onn 64gig cards just to save time testing if one will boot, cards are rate 4kuhd with a bg U and a 3 in the middle of that U. This worked and is working on another of these boards, I have a half dozen of them and am in the process of bulding a 3d printer farm of at least 4 printers. But it all went in the toilet when I apt updated the install this morning which put in a newer kernel. Now I'm afraid to update the only one running.. I had made the sd cards with dd up to now, but pulled the latest balenaEtcher AppImage which is now making the 3rd card with the older 6.1.30 xfce image just to see if that makes any diff. These tests are from a full powerdown and the bpi is powered from a 5 amp box. These bpi's were purchased from amazon in 2 different shipments, if this doesn't work, I'll try the last new bpi-m5 next. Thank you for the quick response Wener,

new release date 8/21, boot goes thru first boot stuff ok, but when it starts the gui, hdmi dies and monitor shuts off, no ssh access either.Tried to dl xfce version, won't. Advise gheskett@shentel.net Earleir image worked fine until update this morning, is now stuck in uboot loop forever. Thanks

armbian jammy, uptodate a/o yesterday, on 6 pack of bananapi-m5's running a 3d printer farm. You made chrome the default browser, which has port 80 high jacked for all of googles BS. So you can't use chrome for local web page troubleshooting, or to run klipper. localhost:80 is not accessible, neither is the machines fqdn:80. Can this bit of commercial hi-jacking be defeated? FF, installed as a snap and auto-updated nightly works fine, but because its a snap, must be restarted every day. That is a classic PITA. So, how do I make FF's snap the default browser?

I'm an id10t. call in the St Bernards and drink the whisky yourselves. It was the .config file it uses to make flash. Its not a pure text file. Blowing it away and doing a fresh make menuconfig fixed it .

strace_make.logstrace_make.log

no progress? Cheers, Gene1934

among other possible things, you must be capable of becoming root, and prefacing those commands with a "sudo" apt update, giving your user pw to the requester for it that should pop up if you are in the sudoers file.

I just did another octoprint and klipper install on another bpi5, and got the exact same error from an example .config file that had never seen a local editor. You, SteeMan, have moved this, but you haven't indicated where to, will I still be notified of updates/replies?

how about a link so I can track this issue?

Working on making klipper, a 3d printiing util like Marlin , work on a bpi5 running armbian, fully updated Since the last update a day back, make has been broken. I think its now expecting windows line endings, which it won't find on a linux system. The error message is consistent: gene@bpi51:~/src/klipper$ make /home/gene/src/klipper/.config:13: *** missing separator. Stop. Line 13 is the first non-comment line in the file. The file uses $0A only as linefeeds, no CR's exist in it. The klipper Makefile uses file ".config" as its src of instructions: A head -14 of that file: gene@bpi51:~/src/klipper$ head -14 .config # This file contains common pin mappings for MKS Robin Nano V3 # boards. To use this config, the firmware should be compiled for the # stm32f407. When running "make menuconfig", select the 48KiB # bootloader, and enable "USB for communication". # The "make flash" command does not work on the MKS Robin. Instead, # after running "make", copy the generated "out/klipper.bin" file to a # file named "Robin_nano_v3.bin" on an SD card and then restart the # MKS Robin with that SD card. # See docs/Config_Reference.md for a description of parameters. [stepper_x] step_pin: PE3 There are two $0A's linefeeds between the "parameters." and the "[" so even this copy/paste is broken. S/b a blank line there, and is shown that way on screen but not here in the above paste from hexedit of that file: 65 72 73 2E 0A 0A 5B 73 74 65 70 70 65 72 5F 78 5D 0A 73 74 65 70 5F 70 69 6E 3A 20 50 45 33 0A ers...[stepper_x].step_pin: PE3. ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ So I am dead in the water until this is fixed. Thank you Cheers, Gene

on the next bpi5, I found the desktop switcher. its that absolutely meaningless jumble of pixels in the upper right corner of the lightdm login window. Am I being overly cautious at not clicking on something that does not mean a thing o a new bee?

Another point of interest, panfrost is spamming the syslog with errors for every keyboard keypress, or change in the mouse pointer because it move in or out of the terminal border on the screen. /var/log/syslog is well over a gigabyte because each report is repeated 3 to 6 times in the milliscond the key was down ot the mouse pointer image is changed.. I think the next thibg I try is another board, which already has an identical image on it u-sd. Later.

I did that, it said twice, one composite-1 and one said HDMI-1, since its plugged into that port I made it say that "HDMI-1" but nothing is changed after the reboot, dpms is still enabled and it will crash when something else thinks it should blank an inactive screen, even if I do an xset -dpms and repeat the xset -q to show dpms is off, and all blank times show as 0. So whats next? All this would work iiiiiifffffff I could make it switch to xfce4 as desktop. What is the official method? Whatever the heck this "edge" is, is junk that should never have seen daylight. just found an 11-armbian.conf in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d that says xfce but there is also a 10-file that says slick-greeter, and the slick-greeter screen now shows a xfce4-terminal, but that is the only xfce4 thing I see for installing 90% of a synaptic search for xfce4. So the question is still:How do I switch it to using xfce4 for everything? Cheers, gene

didn't work, crashed right on schedule. This might Just Work, IF somebody would tell me how to actually switch from this ungainly gui desktop to xfce4 & its text menu's..

I jut left it running, so see if it now runs. However, that did NOT turn off dpms, I still do that by hand, so either whatever reads that file is busted, or something later is re-enabling dpms. IDK. Thank you Igor. Take care and stay well. Cheers, gene.

Thank you Igor, I'll give this a shot. I think I've done all that with xset and failed. Might have a typu someplace. Take are and stay well. Cheers, Gene

To fill in the blanks, all 4 of these have this image as 1st boot: Armbian_22.08.7_Bananapim5_bullseye_edge_5.19.16_gnome_desktop.img 1st one after instaling the xfce4-power-manger, AND somehow getting it switched to xfce4 from whatever the default of that image is, is working pretty good, it's currently running octoprint. and printing a nema-23 motor mount for an Ender5plus Y motor higher speed modification. The 3rd and 4tgh one are awaiting rebuilt machines to run. The next one, same image, different local ipv4 address, refuses to give me a switchable desktop choice, despite about 100 pkgs of xfce4 stuff installed. And goes into a forever sleep when the blanker kicks in, needing a power down reset to recover. Does this info help? Thanks, take care and stay well everybody.

SAfter the reboot, the fonts were ok and I was able to edit the /etc/hosts file and /etc/resolv.conf which i then rendered immune to NM and cohorts with a chattr +i, Then I ran whatever acts like NM, set it up for static and it pings yahoo.com . Set /etc/hostname to match the hosts file for that card and rebooted. And I finally found where to set the default desktop to xfce4, then took that u-sd to another m5 and edited the hostname, rebooted and its still working, running octoprint to drive a new 3d printer I got setup yesterday. But despite installing ALL of the xfce4 stuff, the system won't change to it, and the screenblanker is still an instant crash switch, nothing will wake it back up. This installer works, but leaves out stuff to allow another desktop that actually works to be switched to. Get rid of the graphical app launcher in favor of xfce4's menu's, and make the screen blanker work w/o killing an app the gui started. There is no way in armbian-config, nor in settings to chose which desktop. I have no clue what I did to the first one I posted about to get xfce4 to work. Oh, and a sudo reboot is actually a full powerdown, the power must be recycled to reboot it. That also needs fixed. Thank you for the helpful responses to other questions of mine. Take care & stay well everybody.