Giunti

I've had two Cubietrucks running almost flawlessly for about 10 years on Armbian/Buster and previous versions. I recently decided to install Bookworm using Armbian_23.8.1_Cubietruck_bookworm_current_6.1.47.img.xz. On this I encountered several problems, whose causes I never fully uncovered, but got over them. One of these problems was that neither manual setup nor the use of armbian-config allowed for a lasting configuration of the German keyboard layout, although "Personal Setting" says the opposite (see att. image No.2). It's a pain in the neck, really. All I could filter out is a commandline message that's only visible a second. See the last screenshot with four lines saying I spent a long time figuring out what this means. I simply re-installed the relevant packages via "apt-get" hoping this would help, but there was no obvious change. At some stage of my manifold attempts I suddeny noticed that the keyboard had changed to German on the CT_1. However, I couldn't recall what had caused the change. So I approached my CT_2 and now I'm stuck again with the same issue. 😒 I wonder if others have experienced the same and were more competent in finding a way out. If so, please let me in on your secrets. 🙏

Thanx a multitude, Igor. "apt-get update" seems to work again, however, "upgrade" yielded another error. I then tried upgrade --fix-missing" and that seemed to do the job alright. See screenshots attached in chronological order. If that conforms with your expectations, I'm happy, too.😁 All the best, Giunti PS.: I'm sorry for the German representation of the messages in the screenshots.

In search posts referring to a similar (?) problem I ran across this post hoping to find some remedial hints. Upon trying to update/upgrade my Cubietruck Bookworm OS I received this error message: root@CT:~# apt-get update OK:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease OK:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease OK:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease OK:4 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease Ign:5 http://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt bookworm InRelease Fehl:6 http://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt bookworm Release 404 Not Found [IP: 65.21.120.247 80] Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig E: Das Depot »http://apt.armbian.com bookworm Release« enthält keine Release-Datei mehr. N: Eine Aktualisierung von solch einem Depot kann nicht auf eine sichere Art durchgeführt werden, daher ist es standardmäßig deaktiviert. N: Weitere Details zur Erzeugung von Paketdepots sowie zu deren Benutzerkonfiguration finden Sie in der Handbuchseite apt-secure(8). The stated address does not seem to hold a release file anymore, which does not allow for a secure upgrade. Otherwise my Armbian/Debian system runs flawlessly. Is there a way to get over this problem? Many thanks in advance for help.

Hi all, I've been using Armbian on two Cubietrucks for a decade and had to install the latest version (CLI Armbian 23.8 Bookworm Kernel of Aug 31, 2023) to one of them. The other still runs Buster to my fullest satisfaction. What I noticed, however, is that - among other changes - APM is no longer available. Therefore: Is there any other way to reliably cause HDD spindown after a certain time (say 20 min) even if there's no battery-power mode but 24/7 AC power? Thanks in advance for any help. Giunti

How about that new thread? Has it ever been started? If yes, please provide link. Thanx,