gene1934

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.
 
 
 

The puzzle seems to have resolved itself. I gave up and shut the printer off about 04:00 this morning and went to bed.  Got back up, powered it on about 08:30, and its all working, updating 304 pkgs right now.  It was rebooted at least 15 times as I worked last night w/o any affect.  What the hell is the diff between a reboot and a full powerdown of 4+ hours???  Did dd-wrt flush its cache of MAC addresses?  IDK. But w/o a global net, I was trapped, I could not DL the tools needed to troubleshoot. A very frustrating state of affairs.
 
I do not see anyplace where I could mark this as solved.

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.

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.

solved: took an hour to get it right. yaml is a picky bitch about format but its working.  apt upgrading now.Thank you Igor.

up all night, finally got it working. list of stuff I did: download latest 2505 bookworm-xfce and reburn the u-us card 3 times. copied 40 entry /etc/hosts file from working machine. edit /etc/hostname to change it to unique name amanda, then make it immutable as that did not survive a reboot. rm 10-* in etc/netplan, rename armbian.yaml to 10-armbian.yam editing it as needed, and edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to make network setup start as "hostname files dns" rebooting after each stage. So hostname now stays at amanda, and nsswitch.conf works as ordered. I can ping yahoo.com in addition to my other local machines and have now updated 208 pkgs. rebooted looks ok. Now I can get back to making a 20T lvm out of 5 4T SSD's,  But first some breakfast and a shot of insulin, and a nap while the local weather settles, its poured piss out of a cowbarn boot most of the night.  Thank you for the links, they were educational.

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
 
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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?