An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[as400]

Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "shows the same" (perhaps post the dmesg output to a pastebin or github gist)?

Sure. Here is everything what I found pertaining to cpu4 and cpu5 (system booted with maxcpus=4):




Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: CPU4: failed to come online
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: psci: CPU4 killed (polled 0 ms)
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: CPU4: died during early boot
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp systemd-tmpfiles[950]: Failed to write file "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online": Input/output error
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: CPU features: CPU5: Detected conflict for capability 14 (EL2 vector hardening), System: 0, CPU: 1
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: CPU5: will not boot
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: input: HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD Mouse as /devices/platform/fe3a0000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/0003:258A:001E.0002/input/in>
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: input: HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD Touchpad as /devices/platform/fe3a0000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/0003:258A:001E.0002/input>
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: input: HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD System Control as /devices/platform/fe3a0000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/0003:258A:001E.0002>
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: input: HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD Consumer Control as /devices/platform/fe3a0000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/0003:258A:001E.00>
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: input: HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD Wireless Radio Control as /devices/platform/fe3a0000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/0003:258A:0>
Jan 27 18:14:53 pbp kernel: hid-multitouch 0003:258A:001E.0002: input,hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HAILUCK CO.,LTD USB KEYBOARD] on usb-fe3>
Jan 27 18:14:54 pbp systemd[1]: systemd-rfkill.service: Succeeded.
Jan 27 18:14:55 pbp kernel: cdn-dp fec00000.dp: [drm:cdn_dp_pd_event_work [rockchipdrm]] Not connected. Disabling cdn
Jan 27 18:14:58 pbp kernel: CPU5: failed to come online
Jan 27 18:14:58 pbp kernel: psci: CPU5 killed (polled 0 ms)
Jan 27 18:14:58 pbp kernel: CPU5: died during early boot
Jan 27 18:14:58 pbp systemd-tmpfiles[950]: Failed to write file "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/online": Input/output error
Jan 27 18:14:58 pbp systemd[1]: Started Create Volatile Files and Directories.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

pass ARCH=armhf to the installer to build a complete armhf system

the kernel is arm64 and the config is in /boot on your system already.

could post the config later tonight if you are on a diff system...

Oh yeah. I already have one of those imaged. I'm preferring the arm64 alternative installation, and would benefit from a kernel that would let me drag some armhf bins along for the ride. Widevine, etc.

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@danielt is your kernel config shared anywhere here? I'd like to repro it exactly, with the addition to run armhf binaries when making.
Thanks!

Depends how exact you want to be!

As mentioned in a previous post https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...7#pid56887 I don't want my kernel tree to distract attention from Thomas' since it simply fragments the community (that post also shows how I build the kernel).

However neither do I want to be secretive, especially since the kernel config is included in the kernel itself (try: gunzip -c /proc/kconfig.gz ). Should you ever need it the exact sources can be found on the openbuildservice: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/...elthompson .

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Thanks tremendously. You balance the exact right set of concerns here!

[xmixahlx]

pass ARCH=armhf to the installer to build a complete armhf system

the kernel is arm64 and the config is in /boot on your system already.

could post the config later tonight if you are on a diff system...

Oh yeah. I already have one of those imaged. I'm preferring the arm64 alternative installation, and would benefit from a kernel that would let me drag some armhf bins along for the ride. Widevine, etc.


oh the current kernel supports this already. do:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $package:armhf

I would avoid using tasksel in the installer, then install your minimal desktop environment, then install firefox:armhf or whatever.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

< SNIP >

oh the current kernel supports this already. do:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $package:armhf

I would avoid using tasksel in the installer, then install your minimal desktop environment, then install firefox:armhf or whatever.

Excellent. Thanks. I'm going to work on this.

[xmixahlx]

@danielt

5.5 is released!

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker...og/?h=v5.5

unreleased rc8 becomes 5.5 so would be good to wait for tsys to update the rc7+panfrost branch.

sweet.

[Antoine]

Hi,

I am surprised nobody is experiencing the bug I have since a couple of day. My GTK/Gnome applications make Xorg crash. I use i3 window manager and my main applications are xterm, emacs, mutt and firefox. As long as I do not open a file dialog in firefox, I am safe, but as soon as I launch gimp, evince, pavucontrol..., my X server crashes.

I have reported the bug in Debian bugtracker (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...bug=949980) as well as in the forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8915).

Do you experience such crashes when upgrading libgl1-mesa-dri from 19.2.6-1 to 19.3.2-1?

Thank you for your feedback,

Antoine

[xmixahlx]

I had the same issues initially, but I am using Mesa from git now for updated panfrost.

[moonwalkers]

Hi,

I am surprised nobody is experiencing the bug I have since a couple of day. My GTK/Gnome applications make Xorg crash. I use i3 window manager and my main applications are xterm, emacs, mutt and firefox. As long as I do not open a file dialog in firefox, I am safe, but as soon as I launch gimp, evince, pavucontrol..., my X server crashes.

I have reported the bug in Debian bugtracker (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...bug=949980) as well as in the forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8915).

Do you experience such crashes when upgrading libgl1-mesa-dri from 19.2.6-1 to 19.3.2-1?

Thank you for your feedback,

Antoine

Had the same issue with Firefox, but I use KDE Plasma, so after installing xdg-desktop-portal-kde and setting GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 I no longer get the crashes. Probably not the solution you want though...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

< SNIP >

oh the current kernel supports this already. do:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $package:armhf

I would avoid using tasksel in the installer, then install your minimal desktop environment, then install firefox:armhf or whatever.

Excellent. Thanks. I'm going to work on this.

So far, this has worked best of all. It's kind of bleeding edge, but between selective use of armhf packages, and from sid/unstable, I'm very close to having a system that I'd commit to NVMe.
Next stop will have to be Mesa from Git.

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I had the same issues initially, but I am using Mesa from git now for updated panfrost.

Are there special flags or build instructions for panfrost and arm64? debuild and pbuilder?

Thanks!

[kane]

Hi,

I've been having a few problems since the weekend. Upgrading caused a problem with lightdm or the greeter where it wouldn't load the log in screen, just changing between a black screen and a pointer icon. I switched to gdm which works but initially it was having a lot of faults occur with xorg, as mentioned above, and only when I changed the window manager to i3 could I use mate without being logged out regularly. Is any one else having problems with mate and lightdm? I'm not sure if the problem with lightdm is the same as the one causing faults in xorg.