RickR

Hello Gabor, Sorry, I do not have a valid Banana Pi platform to test this again as this project was done many years ago. If I do get a chance to test the compilation once again I shall send you the details. Best of luck, Rick

Hello, I have been trying to get a user to automatically log in onto one of the virtual consoles and everything I try seems to fail. 1. I crested the device with 'systemctl edit getty@tty2' 2. The resulting '/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/overide.conf' file has ExecStart=/sbin/agetty --autologin root tty1 38400 linux 3. systemctl daemon-reload 4. systemctl enable getty@tty1 5. systemctl start getty@tty1 6. systemctl status getty@tty1 Output: ● getty@tty1.service - Getty on tty1 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service; enabled; vendor preset: e Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d └─10-noclear.conf /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d └─override.conf Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-11-15 09:23:59 UTC; 1min 11s ago Docs: man:agetty(8) man:systemd-getty-generator(8) http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html Main PID: 5795 (agetty) Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/system-getty.slice/getty@tty1.service └─5795 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux And then nothing happens, I get a login prompt on all the first 6 consoles and it makes no difference which tty I use I just cannot get a user to autologin on one of the consoles. I have seen this error: Nov 15 09:32:40 dlogger systemd[1]: [/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf:1] Assignment outside of section. Ignoring. What have i done wrong or missed out? Thank you, Rick

Thank you Martinayotte, that is very helpful. The difficulty I found is that it required superuser permissions and I managed to get the gpio utility compiled and finally working late last night and it does not require superuser permissions

Hello, I have installed ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.70-sunxi on a Banana Pi M2+ and I need to read and write to the GPIO pins from a bash script, does anyone have a workable solution? I tried with an Orange Pi in the past and I compiled a binary to access the gpio values but it did not work and I cannot find that source any more. Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, This is my first post to this forum. I am installing a software package on Armbian 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.70-sunxi for the Banana Pi M2+ and I have problem with the uname command in that when I pass the -i option it reports back unknown. Now I am unsure what function the software calls to determine the platform architecture so I cannot script around it, but this issue is preventing me from moving forward now. When I check some of the binaries with file command it reports back ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5. Anyway this causes the software I am installing to fail, any suggestions as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance, Rick

Hi Guys, I am working with Orange and Banana Pi development boards all with a minimum og 8GB eMMC chips. I am looking for a process to clone a working system to an SD card and using it as a checkpoint for my configuration changes so should I mess things up I can revert to the previous checkpoint. I have used 'dd' in the past but it is considerably bigger than the standard install images and it slows down the recovery process quite a lot. Is there a better way for me to clone the working system to an SD card. Thank you in advance, Rick