Good evening. I acquired a Pinephone – Beta Edition with Convergence Package back in March and initially found the operating system to crash continually. I came back a couple of months later to it and tried to update the Manjaro to see if things had improved. After several hours of putting error messages into Google I have manged to get the phone mostly updated apart from an error which I believe is near the tail end of the process.

The issue is that the Pinephone seems to become unresponsive whilst "checking available disk space". I have no idea why this is happening.

Last few lines of SSH terminal:

Quote:Total Installed Size:  3775.60 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      244.18 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(453/453) checking keys in keyring                   [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) checking package integrity                [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) loading package files                          [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) checking for file conflicts                    [#############################################] 100%
( 87/457) checking available disk space              [########-------------------------------------]  19%

Quote:[username@plasma-mobile ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev            1.4G    0  1.4G  0% /dev
run            1.5G  9.4M  1.5G  1% /run
/dev/mmcblk2p2  29G  5.8G  22G  22% /
tmpfs          1.5G    0  1.5G  0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          4.0M    0  4.0M  0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          1.5G  60K  1.5G  1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk2p1  214M  37M  177M  18% /boot
tmpfs          300M  48K  300M  1% /run/user/1002

Quote:[username@plasma-mobile ~]$ hostnamectl
  Static hostname: plasma-mobile
        Icon name: computer-handset
          Chassis: handset
        Machine ID: 71fdd7dcc5db4aeba9bec02b1fc96dc8
          Boot ID: c1b8b7c5c2b64215a9fb6d2539f73bd7
  Operating System: Manjaro ARM
            Kernel: Linux 5.11.3-1-MANJARO-ARM
      Architecture: arm64
[username@plasma-mobile ~]$ plasmashell --version
plasmashell 5.21.2
[username@plasma-mobile ~]$ kf5-config --version
Qt: 5.15.2
KDE Frameworks: 5.79.0
kf5-config: 1.0

Hi !

I would like to install OpenBSD (6.9 at the time of writing) on an encrypted RAID1 device.
After struggling for a very long time with a defective PCIe to SATA  card, I finally managed to finish the installation process. But I'm not able to boot from SATA.

I've flashed SPI with u-boot and put the dtb (and even u-boot) on 'i' partition of the disk, but didn't manage to have it boot successfully.

Is there a way to make it work ?

Hi, I'm trying to use this command (update-rc.d) to add a script to the startup but Kings's Cross can't find it. Is it possible to install this command? Thanks!

Hi, I recently got around to upgrading Manjaro and a couple of update prompts made me curious.

Could someone please tell me what libcanberra-pulse and its successor, extra/libcanberra were for?

It seems after my most recent update, these have been removed. 

I'd appreciate any insights into what these were, and what made them obsolete. 

Thanks in advance. 

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Hi, I followed all the instructions I could find to get VoLTE working. My carrier "Consumer Cellular" uses AT&T network which is soon totally disabling 3G so I must get VoLTE working. However I'm not sure if it is working. I need help understanding it.

I have Manjaro CE with Phosh.

I reached the carrier support and they succesfuly detected the modem model and enabled something on their end to allow VoLTE.

I followed the VoLTE steps on the main PinePhone wiki page.

I am curious what people are playing audiobooks on with their Pinephones, I think the defining trait of an audiobook player is that it saves your postion in the 'book' between listening sessions; bookmarks, skipping << < > >> controls, and playlists are important too as is playing most all formats.
I feel like a podcast player would be yet another category aside from music and audiobooks with much emphasis on browsing, auto-downloading, and organizing played/unplayed podcasts after reviewing gnome podcasts.
I consider an audiobook player to be a daily driver essential as I prefer books to music when driving long distances.
On my N900 I ran the simple but effective Panucci which is FOSS, I have not had a chance to try to compile for Mobian.
https://github.com/gpodder/panucci
Panucci works well but only plays MP3 files, it also will wipe progress if I try to run the app without the current media found.

What do you recommend to play audiobooks on your pinephone?

In dmesg I have these error lines repeated multiple times:

sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: data error, sending stop command
sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: send stop command failed
mmc_erase: group start error -110, status 0x0
[...]
[b]mmc_erase: group start error -110, status 0x0[/b]

This is a bit strange because I am running from the sdcard.
Should I be worried ? Is my emmc dying ?

I'm considering investing some time into the platform and wonder how many devices have been sold? If this information is not public, a range would be very helpful to know. Thank you!

With the RK3588 hopefully coming later this year, and maybe arriving in Pine products early in 2022, I have some questions for people who are more familiar with the hardware supply situation right now.

Pine64 tries to keep the number of SKUs as small as possible, which is very respectable. However, I think a version of a possible RK3588 Pinebook with the ability to flip it's display around fully, a touch screen and accordingly low-latency pen input would be really useful, especially since the ARM processor would provide good battery life.

Are parts that would facilitate that kind of (of course slightly more expensive) PineBook Ultra model readily available, and is it realistic to manufacture? Is this something Pine64 would be interested in making?
Distributions running Gnome or Pantheon seem ready to be used with part-time touch input, and a pen would make taking notes really convenient.

Thanks!

Hello,

In order to investigate issues I want to change my linux distribution so I need to export (then import) my contacts.

I am currently using Mobian with Posh, my contacts are in the application Gnome Contacts 3.38.1.
I see no option to export a vcf file.
I would be happy with copying a configuration directory (like how you can backup ~.mozilla/firefox)

Any idea ?