(01-12-2021, 02:32 PM)Quanifi Wrote: Daniel, thanks for your contributions to the Pinebook Pro forum. I am trying to update to Debian from Manjaro and I'm getting and error when trying to do the install. Says: "error: could not lock database; file exists, if you are sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /vsr/lib/pacman/db/lck"
ANy suggestions to get this installed....???

(09-25-2020, 07:25 AM)danielt Wrote:

(09-11-2020, 01:55 PM)xmixahlx Wrote: if it is the neon complier issue... are you using gcc 10? just step back to gcc 9.x. or use a git gcc (master is fixed).

hardware decoding working great with the linux build script in pbp-tools.

It is dependant on gcc version although its not the neon issue that is causing the trouble (since that is easy to workaround). I've seen gcc-9 builds that do work but I'm not willing to ship a kernel that doesn't compile with the default Debian compiler... the installer is supposed to be staying as close as possible to pure Debian (and already has a few too many hacks) and shipping code that cannot be compiled with the default compiler isn't good distro engineering.

(02-19-2021, 01:40 PM)Fish Wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian through the installer, but I'm having some trouble with it. The pinebook pro runs mrfixit's image from SD, and I'm trying to install Debian on the emmc. The installer is started with the following command:./install-debian BLKDEV=/dev/mmcblk1 (double checked of course). I posted the error below. What am I doing wrong?

The error:
I: Configuring dbus...
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package policykit-1 is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package policykit-1 is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package policykit-1 is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package policykit-1 is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package policykit-1 is at fault)


>>>> umount

umount: /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/dev: not mounted
umount: /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/proc: not mounted
umount: /home/rock/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/sysimage/sys: not mounted

(02-20-2021, 04:18 AM)Fish Wrote: During the installation there appears to be a  debootstrap.log file, after the error it deletes the file and the debootstrap directory...

(02-19-2021, 01:40 PM)Fish Wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian through the installer, but I'm having some trouble with it. The pinebook pro runs mrfixit's image from SD, and I'm trying to install Debian on the emmc. The installer is started with the following command:./install-debian BLKDEV=/dev/mmcblk1 (double checked of course). I posted the error below. What am I doing wrong?

The error:
~snip~

(02-20-2021, 10:35 AM)KiteX3 Wrote:

(02-19-2021, 01:40 PM)Fish Wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian through the installer, but I'm having some trouble with it. The pinebook pro runs mrfixit's image from SD, and I'm trying to install Debian on the emmc. The installer is started with the following command:./install-debian BLKDEV=/dev/mmcblk1 (double checked of course). I posted the error below. What am I doing wrong?

The error:
~snip~

I just solved this problem while installing Debian on my Pinebook Pro. I used a hint from the Github issues list.

What I did was I searched for and removed "network-manager" from line 170 of the `./install-debian` script. It seems network-manager tries to pull in policy-kit but doesn't know how to, and that causes issues during install. After removing it, wifi worked just fine on first boot if I installed the standard KDE desktop, because I think network-manager gets installed later as a dependency of KDE (probably for other desktops too) but since I wanted a minimal KDE install I also tried installing without full KDE; that broke all internet when I booted into the OS for the first time,  since network-manager never got installed. Turns out that you need to do a `./install-debian do_shell` to get a shell in the new OS as a chroot and then install network-manager while you can still lean on the host OS's network connection. (It's particularly convenient to do so anyway to install stuff like minimal KDE, or gvim, or whatever other must-have software you need out of the box, so you might as well anyway.)