I have a Rockpro64 board in which I flashed an Ubuntu OS via an eMMC and installed a system onto it. However, I messed something up during the install and would like to completely start from scratch. There is nothing important on the drive I have attached to the board like this setup here, expect I have an NVMe M.2 SSD: https://notmandatory.org/rockpro64-pt1/

So I would like to unmount the drive, reformat and redo the LVM volumes I had setup, and do anything else necessary to go back to default configuration settings so I can start from scratch trying to install that system again.

Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

So I'm working on my darktable issue. I loaded LibreOffice writer and tried to select a font to see if it was actually installed, and the list was blank. When I highlight a font, it shows up the name highlighted and it can be selected, but the other unselected fonts in the list remain blank. I ran sudo fc-cache -vf and this is the output:

Font directories:
        /usr/share/fonts
        /usr/local/share/fonts
        /root/.local/share/fonts
        /root/.fonts
        /usr/share/fonts/Roboto
        /usr/share/fonts/TTF
        /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro
        /usr/share/fonts/cantarell
        /usr/share/fonts/encodings
        /usr/share/fonts/gsfonts
        /usr/share/fonts/noto
        /usr/share/fonts/util
        /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 8 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Roboto: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 36 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto: caching, new cache contents: 511 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts/Roboto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/util: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded


Maybe an issue with looped directories?

I have two 4GB Rock64 boards identically configured.  Each has

• The official 5V 3A power supply.
  
• The official heat sink.
  
• A 32GB SanDisk A1-class SD card.
  
• An Eluteng USB to SATA bridge.
  
• A Sandisk 240GB SSD.
  
• Armbian Focal Server installed for Rock64.
  
• A wired gigabit network connection to same switch.
  
• No monitor attached.
  

• disabling one of the four CPU cores.
  
• disabling up to 1GB of RAM.
  
• reducing clock speed by up to 20 percent.
  

For sale: Pinebook Pro from the first batch, with the 128 Gb update.
Included: nvme adapter.

This was a try for me as a second laptop, but never used it very much.

This PBP was shipped to Europe/The Netherlands.

Please PM if you are interested, and give me your bid... Serious bids only...

On the default Manjaro the battery pretty much works as expected (it doesn't charge all the way to 100%, but in the 90's, and my old laptop also did that so it doesn't concern me.)

However, I've noticed booting into Android afterwards causes the battery percentage to behave unexpectedly. Earlier today, I was at ~85% in Manjaro, but after rebooting into Android, I noticed the percentage showed 75% with 1:41 remaining on the battery. I continued to mess around with Android for a while, and eventually the percentage rose to 76%...with 1:41 left on the battery. I rebooted into Manjaro and the percentage read 69% (and stayed there for a while,) and at one point while web browsing it said I had 34:44 left on the battery (yeah.......)

Is Android messing up the battery calibration or something? My guess is that is that Android caused the battery percentage to be set lower, and the percentage was frozen because the battery had to catch up to that number.

Anybody else had the problem where after flashing a distro to your SD card, when latet inserting the card in a windows PC it reflects a much smaller volume, and then upon inspecting the disks it shows several partitions, each with small volume but none with the bulk of the space that should be available? My 64GB was reflecting 121MB

Hello,

I'm still a newbie with Linux, though I'm successfully using a Linux laptop and I'm looking forward to my PineBook Pro.

Is the new PinePhone with Manjaro any closer to being something a non-developer newbie can order and successfully use? I like tinkering and learning, but I'm not a developer and don't have much in the way of developer chops. Still, I'm eager to be on board and learn new things, so I'm ready to go any time the PinePhone is ready to be something I can use to supplement my normal phone.

I'd be grateful for anyone's insights.

Best,

Graham

Does the Pinebook Pro support the 128GB eMMC?

I ordered one, flashed it with the latest Manjaro. It will walk you through the initial setup (name, pswd, location, etc) but fails to reboot when completed. If I power down and reboot, it just hangs.

Thanks.

We’re pleased to announce that the next PinePhone Community Edition will feature Manjaro. 
Two variants available: 
* Regular CE - 2GB RAM/ 16GB eMMC
* Convergence Package - 3GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC bundled with a USB-C dock.

Pre-oders open mid September.

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Hi everyone, over the weekend I did the ub ports update on my pinephone. Finally the camera started. However, it is extremely slow and jerky. I was wondering if it's just my problem or if it happens to everyone.