Posts by chewitt

RPi5:~ # ls -l /usr/sbin/*fsck*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             8 Oct 21 13:52 /usr/sbin/dosfsck -> fsck.fat
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        749016 Oct 21 13:54 /usr/sbin/e2fsck
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         68736 Oct 21 13:53 /usr/sbin/fsck
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         68800 Oct 21 13:52 /usr/sbin/fsck.exfat
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             6 Oct 21 13:54 /usr/sbin/fsck.ext2 -> e2fsck
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             6 Oct 21 13:54 /usr/sbin/fsck.ext3 -> e2fsck
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             6 Oct 21 13:54 /usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 -> e2fsck
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        133688 Oct 21 13:52 /usr/sbin/fsck.fat
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             8 Oct 21 13:52 /usr/sbin/fsck.msdos -> fsck.fat
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             8 Oct 21 13:52 /usr/sbin/fsck.vfat -> fsck.fat

^ LE uses the full e2fsck binary not busybox.

I built a Generic/GBM image here: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…_64-11.80.0.tar which should reinstate mkfs.ntfs and include the ntfsfix tool from ntfsprogs. The image is not tested since I don't have any Intel CPU hardware around these days, but please have a play with the binaries to ensure they compiled okay and to see if ntfsfix can resolve the dirty-filesystem issues you're seeing?

The two files are 4K@60 8-bit (BT2020_RGB colourspace) and [email protected] 8-bit (default colourspace). There is no mode whitelist for adjust-refresh active and the HDMI panel (which looks like a monitor not a TV) offers only 1080p@60/59.94 so Kodi must resample the media to 1080p@60 for output.

I would repeat the test using only 1080p@60 SDR media as this will eliminate DRM colourspace changes and the impact of resampling 4K media to 1080p.

Yup. And the utility that's been dropped with NTFS-3G is "mkfs.ntfs" not "fsck.ntfs" .. and if you do some reading around this topic there is a conspicuous absence of fsck or similar tools for NTFS on Linux. There's an older "ntfsfix" which simply clears the dirty flag; which will probably allow the drive to mount in some/most cases, but risks causing damage in scenarios when proper chkdsk.exe is required to resolve a more serious problem with the filesystem (and due to that, isn't something we'd try to use). It looks like we (and the the rest of the Linux using world) is needing Paragon to clean-up and submit their fsck tool code.

I'll look at building a test image (will be LE12) that you can be the test guinnea-pig for..

Quote from palle_c

I'm just thinking of the next poor person who installs LE11 and says what i said "why isn't "enablehighqualityhwscalers" working

You're the first person to notice since LE11 shipped and nVidia active-install numbers continue to decline over time (we've been telling people to avoid nVidia cards for years now) so the chance that someone else spots the problem is fairly low.

Quote from e123enitan

Any suggestions.

Read the message on the screen?

LE10 and earlier use NTFS-3G via FUSE to mount NTFS drives. LE11 switched to new(er) in-kernel drivers so you'll see a significant increase in file read/write performance. However the in-kernel drivers appear to be a little more enthusiastic about flagging issues; hence the change in behaviour that users are seeing.

LE normally does fsck before mounting drives but there is no fsck.ntfs utility to do this (ext2/3/4 etc. use /usr/sbin/e2fsck). In the past there was an fsck tool from NTFS-3G and I'm wondering if we might need to restore the package; not to switch back to the older driver, but to build and pick the fsck tool to the image.

Kodi allows drives to be selected and unmounted in the file browser, but otherwise the GUI doesn't have an easily accessed option and you'd need to create an unmount-all script and then map the script to a custom remote keymap.

Team Kodi didn't decide on a 20.3 release yet, but it would be good to send the PR in case it happens (the idea has been made). It's always better to merge patches upstream instead of adding them downstream at the LE repo.

Error code 110 is "ETIMEDOUT" i.e. connection timed out. I'm not sure knowing that helps though.

131 Linux Error Codes for C Programming Language using errno

Kodi doesn't build binary add-ons; that's left to distro maintainers to build/package them as needed for their users; so LE builds them and makes them available from our add-on repo.

The SD card will be /dev/mmcblk0 so as long as that /dev/device exists you can test writing with "dd if=/dev/random /dev/mmcblk0 bs=1m" and the OS will write random data to the entire card. It will take quite a while (larger card size = longer time) but if there are problems with the card (or reader hardware) it'll throw errors and hang/halt/barf on the task. To state the obvious; this will trash whatever data is currently on the card

AirPlay etc. require the router to replicate broadcast traffic that advertises the service on both wired and wireless segments. Some routers do that, and others don't. If the RPi cannot see the WiFi SSID; common reasons would be the SSID being hidden (ConnMan cannot see something that is not being broadcast) or the wireless regdomain might need configuring to align the radio properties.

It's a while since I shipped my Slice to another LE dev, but CM3 was a nice bump over CM1.

"computers"

In the absence of debug logs I'd make an educated guess that the keys that underpin the S in SFTP changed on the Synology side and while FileZilla is configured or defaults to ignoring that Kodi will probably flag the mismatch and fail. I'd have thought that kind of thing would be relatively obvious from logs though (although I never used SFTP for anything). See if clearing /storage/.ssh/known_hosts (or the old entries for the IP/FQNDs of the Synology target) makes a difference?

Quote from Zobi

So... I'll try this N100 fanless adventure, for 235 euros... It's more than 150 euros on RPi 5, but not so much (especially if it lasts 8 years also)... And the N100 is more future proof...

Estimated shipping in December 2023 as long as they accumulate enough backers. Dates on Indiegogo are often a little optimistic so good luck with the purchase