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Re: How to create and use a Swap file - 9 months ago

Just been updating some of my Pogo servers to Bookworm and I saw this post re Swapfiles. Hadn't seen dphys-swapfile before so that saved a lot of hassle. I am just upgrading the boot SDCARDs in the Pogo 4 devices to Sandisk 32GB cards designed for dashcams and surveillance cams. I am guessing they have inbuilt sector write balancing and other safeguards to prevent premature failure. Does a

by BobM - Debian

Re: System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down - 2 years ago

Not sure if this will help but the only way I get SystemD to load correctly on my POGO was to install the systemd helper - systemd-sysv as well as systemd. That fixed the problem where systemd was started first with PID 1. I use the pogo as NAS and gerbera media servers and they seem pretty stable until I break them :( - BobM

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Good Question Frank, I believe it is in the Deb-multimedia.org repository which is the only non standard one I have. The version I used is 1.28.1 and it seemed to work OK but I have removed it nw from the live server as I dnt need itunes support. deb-multimedia is usefull for lost of media app and libraries that are not supported on Debian reps yet. By the way, save yourself some angst ad

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Hi Frank - thought I would give Owntone a whirl and the stock version that was in my apt libraries was only one minor rev of the the git version. Seemed to work ok on my Pogo Kirkwood box - very quick and easy to set up and the catalog of my music library went through fairly quickly. The only headache for me is that we don't use Apple and itunes here so I need a music player that supports

by BobM - Debian

Re: Is it possible to have a Debian 11 Bullseye build for Pogo Armel? - 3 years ago

Just a Quick note to say that I have just built a BullsEye rootfs for oxnas (Pogo B03) using chroot as suggested. That was a challenge but easier than expected. The only thing to be aware of is that the initrd.img file name is different because it's a kirkwood rootfs we have started with. Other than that all running well. Happy New Year everyone!

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Unfortunately for me, cross compiling doesn't help - Bubble server is a jave app which runs in JDK or JRE. It's used to allow secure remote access to a dlna / upnp server and works with the bubble media player app. A good option for upnp server is gerbera as it's pretty lightweight and runs happily on NAS and pogo boxes with the added bonus of being free. Good thought though - B

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

I've still not found a solution to this Frank - lots of bug reports but no method for fixing. Java JRE & JDK do not want to install on Buster or Bullseye. I wanted the JRE so I could run a bubble server to get access to my Gerbera upnp server (I have now compiled 1.9.2 succesfully and plan to update my instructions for 1.8.x). Not heard of OwnTone before so will do some research.

by BobM - Debian

Re: Is it possible to have a Debian 11 Bullseye build for Pogo Armel? - 3 years ago

Thanks for that. Sorry I didn't read that far when I did the kernel update and it didn't appear when I searched. I have another Pogo EO2 box to hack so look forward to trying a Bullseye build. Once again - thanks for the support and help - Bob

by BobM - Debian

Is it possible to have a Debian 11 Bullseye build for Pogo Armel? - 3 years ago

I have just been experimenting with Gerbera 1.9.2 and now it's passed my testing, I want to tick it on the live system. Arrgh, The dependencies that I had to download from the testing repo have moved on from the original ones used on the test box and while they work on V1.82 on V1.92 they seem to cause the app to crash when scanning files. Manually loading the same versions means tracking th

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Well, I am using BubbleUPNP as an Android client and I found they had a server - https://www.bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver2/ but it seems that the coding for it is under Java using the JRE. Thats started me down a new road with a whole new can of beans. Was hoping to just open the server up and use it as the buffer to the Gerbera Upnp database and files..Back to the drawing board and my bat

by BobM - Debian

Re: Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Thanks RenoJim. Been tied up this week but first go this evening gave file not found errors on the wgets. You have given me an idea however so I will try a few more things to pull the files manually. Appreciate Java isn't a great option but so far Bubble UPNP Server is the only solution I have found so far to make my UPNP server visible outside of my network. I may just have to find a way

by BobM - Debian

Java JRE & JDK wont install because cacerts is missing - 3 years ago

Has anyone solved this error message Quotehead: cannot open '/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts' for reading: No such file or directory Which I get when installing Java on a Pogo V4 (standard and mobile) running Bodhi's Debian builds. There is an outstanding issue for it here: https://github.com/adoptium/installer/issues/105 and the fixes that are widely touted don't se

by BobM - Debian

Re: Build Gerbera V1.6.4 for Pogo 2/4 Armel Architecture - 4 years ago

In the Gerbera manual, there is a warning about remote access with the WebUI enabled and they recommend disabling it.. There is a simple login system for the WebUI but it could be relatively easily broken. The WebUI is useful for setting up and checking operations but not as a general media system e.g. I can play a single track but not a whole album. I would probably try and use samba or ftp to

by BobM - Debian

Re: Build Gerbera V1.6.4 for Pogo 2/4 Armel Architecture - 4 years ago

Cheers Bodhi, :) I have just made a few updates and included the corrections you pointed out. As it happens, I did make a 1GB swapfile on my SSD which resolved all my random compile errors. I was just reading some of your tips on swapfile sizing today as my pogo all generally run with zram and no swap file. As samba and media servers the V2 E0s and V4 have been fine for me but it is right on

by BobM - Debian

Build Gerbera V1.6.4 for Pogo 2/4 Armel Architecture - 4 years ago

I started working on PogoPlugs last year to sharpen my Unix skills and to get some very power/space/simple NAS and media servers onto my home network. I have managed to hack into every pogo version now thanks to the help of people here and now I have managed to get a decent Media server running and I thought I would share my tips with you all because I found the information I needed to do it not

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo E02 - Wont boot to USB or Pogo OS - 4 years ago

Thanks David & Bodhi, - I will investigate the openWRT option (I have played with it on the V3 and tftp loaded across my network) once I get my DHCP problem on this EOS fixed (my router thinks the E02 is using a static address). Cheers - Bob

by BobM - uBoot

Re: Pogo E02 - Wont boot to USB or Pogo OS - 4 years ago

Hi Bodhi.The USB stick is now booting correctly after I fdisk'd and format'd on the Pogo V3 yesterday. By last night I was down to dodgy hardware and a Pogo that wont boot onboard rescue from NAND. I should have been clearer - the last serial dump was when I was trying to boot from the Onboard OS in NAND. There were no USB device connected at all (or network cable). I wanted to use

by BobM - uBoot

Re: Pogo E02 - Wont boot to USB or Pogo OS - 4 years ago

Erm Yes - This is a new stick - it worked for a while when I booted my Pogo V4 with it today then it got stuck. Went back to scratch and this time used FDISK on the pogo V3 to repartition the stick, copied the OS over again and booted the V2 OK however a bit later, on a restart, the Pogo was dead - no lights nothing :( Checked the PSU was OK, plugged it all in again and hey presto - up and runnin

by BobM - uBoot

Pogo E02 - Wont boot to USB or Pogo OS - 4 years ago

Working on a Pogo E02 now having got and V3 & V4 working. Upgraded UBOOT to latest version 2017007 as per instructions but now I can't boot to original Pogo OS or my Debian USB stick. This is the serial terminal dump: U-Boot 2017.07-tld-1 (Sep 05 2017 - 00:13:18 -0700) Pogo E02 SoC: Kirkwood 88F6281_A0 DRAM: 256 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: 128 MiB In: serial

by BobM - uBoot

Re: OpenWRT or Pogo NAND O/S for recovery partition? - 4 years ago

Thanks Bodhi for the advice - much appreciated :)

by BobM - Debian

Re: OpenWRT or Pogo NAND O/S for recovery partition? - 4 years ago

It's the OTOH option that's the more interesting for me Bodhi. I presume it can be installed into the normal NAND space even with the latest UBOOT installed. My other slightly related question was - can I replace the standard busybox with the one inRegardas your tools tools tarbal (which has the printenv, setenv etc.) and would that be a quick simple upgrade to the built in O

by BobM - Debian

OpenWRT or Pogo NAND O/S for recovery partition? - 4 years ago

Just looking for some advice. I have a variety of pogos E02, B03 & V4 which all boot into the native NAND O/S if there is no rootfs found on a external device. I was just wondering whether it was best to stick with the original NAND OS or whether there was any mileage in updating the NAND to something like OpenWRT? Thanks - Bob

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

Woohoo - That's cracked it :) Not sure where I missed that step but thank you very much for spotting it. I have just logged in as root and am now in the process of securing the OS before I remove the serial port and pop the lid back on. Cheers - Bob

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

Hi Bodhi, Appreciate your time. The first log is me booting into the onboard OS in NAND, inserting the memory stick, running e2fsck then mounting the drive. The second is after performing a warm reboot (warm or cold seems to make no difference). The hispeed USB device is recognised in both instances but something about the Debian environment on the USB stick seems to be unhappy but I don

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

I don't have a USB hub to hand but I have now tried a SanDisk Cruzer Orbit 16Gb with an EXT3 partition and this stops in the same place. Although I have been formatting all my sticks on a Zorin based machine, I expand the tar file on the Pogo using the original Pogo OS to boot. This allows me to mount any EXT3 partition on my USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 sticks and expand the Debian tar. I also have

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

USB Sticks seem to be the bain of my life with this project! I had lots of problems with USB sticks on my PogoV4 which all seemed to melt away once I got the SDCARD to boot. That's now happily working as a Samba Server with a USB 64GB Ultra Fit for the data. The stick I am using in the B03 is a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 16GB. I just put it back to GPT/EXT3 so I could recopy the uboot environ

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

Doh - schoolboy error - the first few times, I was skipping that step when I was having other problems then got into some sort of autopilot groundhog loop doing it. The latest config of my Sandisk USB stick is GPT partition table with an EXT4 single partition called rootfs. I copied back the correct uImage as requested by bodhi and this produces a hang at a different point. The new serial d

by BobM - Debian

Re: Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

Thanks @rayknight I used the command as requested # e2label /dev/sdc1 to check the label and it confirmed the EXT partition had been formatted with the correct label (I used gparted to delete all the partition info and create one partition the full size with label rootfs. I also used the e2label command to relabel the partition just in case but got the same problem. I booted the Pogo B03

by BobM - Debian

Pogo B03 Hangs on boot - VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 - 4 years ago

Re-Posted As requested I have followed your excellent guides to reconfigure my PogoPlug B03 OXNAS hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) [ 3.786608] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 [ 3.794099] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 3.802534] 1f00 14336 mtdblock0 [

by BobM - Debian

Re: Linux Kernel Pogo V3 (Oxnas OX820) package and rootfs (Flattened Device Tree) - 4 years ago

I have followed your excellent guides to reconfigure my PogoPlug B03 OXNAS hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) [ 3.786608] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 [ 3.794099] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 3.802534] 1f00 14336 mtdblock0 [ 3.802544] (driver?) [

by BobM - Debian