I've been using the out of box Linux mint for a while now and it's been working great! I want to try out something a little more light weight. Any suggestions?

Is there a shop in Europe / EU where some spare parts of the Pinebook are available?

I'd like to buy an extra eMMC Module and a USB Adapter, but 12$ Shipping is really high. Also, taxes are probably ontop (even the shipping costs are taxed!). An EU Shop could have cheaper shipping and no taxes. Does anybody know if that's available?

I'm a longtime user of Conky on x86 platforms.

I installed it on my new Pinebook 1080p, but it keeps crashing.

It runs for a few seconds, then crashes with one of several errors. And it's not Conky syntax errors, it seems to me these are errors min the code (but I'm not a programmer).

Here are some of the errors Conky throws:

*** Error in `conky': free(): invalid pointer: 0x000000557d588960 ***
conky&
[2] 10840
[1]   Aborted   

*** Error in `conky': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000557c147e60 ***
conky&
[4] 11504
[3]   Aborted               

conky: attempt to index a nil value

conky: malloc.c:2406: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == initial_top (av) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= MINSIZE && prev_inuse (old_top) && ((unsigned long) old_end & (pagesize - 1)) == 0)' failed.

    
Am I the only Pinebookie experiencing this problem?         

Hi team hope you guys are great.
Not the most technical linux person but I really like to tinker.

I got the new pine book 1080 to my german home love it its all that wanted as far as weight goes.
I booted the KDE Neon on it.
Did the updates.

I wanted to install my favorite snap

I did sudo snap install htop  -- It said that I did not have the right permissions for a device
I did sudo apt-get install htop it worked.

Any trick to get snaps to work?

Thanks

Jwp1000

Hi,
 
I'm using LCD panel[1] and OV5640 camera sensor on SoPine and Pine64 LTS and trying to follow steps mentioned here[2]. It hangs while graphics initialize
 
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS!
[  OK  ] Created slice system.slice.
         Starting Accounts Service...
[  OK  ] Started Accounts Service.
[  OK  ] Reached target graphical.target.
<< hang here >>
 
any help, do we have an existing BSP to work on this LCD and Camera?
 
[2] http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/SOPINE_...and_Camera
[1] https://www.pine64.org/?product=7-lcd-to...reen-panel

So, following thing:

I have built a server with the RockPro64 and 4 HDDs. After my SD Card died due to frequent flashing of new images and the immense data writing due to kernel compilation, I have looked into how I could boot my RockPro64 from my HDDs.

Turns out, nothing easier than that!

Just install your (in my case Arch) Linux on the SD card. This will create different partitions, where mmcblk0p7 (or however your System will call the partitions on your SD card), the 7th partition is your root file system.

U-Boot WILL ALWAYS look in the boot/ folder on this partition for the kernel and the extlinux config. But not for the other parts, the root= flag in the extlinux.conf specifies where the kernel should boot the rootfs from.

So, create a partition on one of the HDDs (Raid and LVM should also work, just make sure to edit the mkinitcpio and recreate the kernel config before you continue), format it to ext4 and copy everything from the rootfs on the sdcard into this new partition on the HDD. Make sure you copy them with correct metadata, I recommend rsync.

After that, use fdisk to give a label for this partition, that you will not use any more on the system, like 'hddroot'.

Edit the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf on your SD card and change your rootfs to the specified partition label above: 'root=label=hddroot'

now, in the partition on the HDD, edit the etc/fstab to mount your original rootfs from the sdcard somewhere on your system. I created a folder called /sdroot for that. Set another fstab entry to bind mount /sdroot/boot to /boot. This is needed, so that /boot in your system points to /boot on your SDcard. Otherwise, kernel upgrades would install your new kernel on the HDD and U-Boot would still load the old one from the SD card. This way, a new kernel installed to /boot will always land on your SD card, minimizing the write load to kernel upgrades only.

That't it, you're good to go! This is running with a USB HDD and a SATA HDD on my system, I'll try packing the rootfs into a software raid and lvm later. Hopefully this way, my SD card will survive more than just a couple of weeks...

Have fun!

Hi Guys,

I found this very interesting project that is based on Debian, beside the fact that it would be awesome if we can have a customized iso image, I was wondering if, since the moment it is based on Debian, using the Debian iso and the official guide it is possible setup the freedombox, what do you think?


https://freedombox.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian

Hello,
I’m trying to run a Minecraft server for a handful of friends, which I was successful doing so, but id like to squeeze as much of the board as I can.

I’m currently running the “Bionic minimal ROCKPro64 0.7.11 1075 arm64 img”, and the server running at 3GB ram (Maybe I can boost it to 3.5? If I disable unneeded services and processes), or is there a more lightweight ISO to server host? All I need is Java/Internet/and that’s about it, a light system.

What would be safe services and process to get rid off if I only need need java and internet?

I must of missed the announcement and can't seem to find any specific details about the new 1080p pinebooks.  Can anyone confirm weather this is just the 11.6" or if it also includes the 14" pinebook that now comes with a 1080p display.

I'm looking at the RockPro64 and would like to put together a working SBC, but I'm not quite sure what ( in addition to the CPU board ) what to purchase.  Is there a comprehensive list of what is needed to get it running?

This also applies to other models.