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Posts by chewitt
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If it shows up in blkid the device is seen by the kernel. It probably doesn't auto-mount due to a dirty NTFS filesystem or some other issue.
"dmesg | paste" and share the URL pls .. then we can see what the error is.
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You'll probably find the OS is booted but Kodi is not starting up, hence nothing overwrites the boot splash on screen and it looks stuck. You should be able to SSH into the box and share the system journal (journalctl -b 0 --no-pager | paste) and Kodi log if present (cat /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | paste) and share the URLs generated so we can hopefully/maybe see what the issue is.
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Some of the add-ons you are trying to use (Amazon etc.) via Kodinerds (and related) repos are "experimental" and require pre-alpha versions of Kodi v18 (not current official releases) to work. People on the project are involved in those developments, but this is bleeding edge stuff that should not be considered reliable (crashes etc. are to be expected) or something you can expect normal support on, at least here. Kodinerds where more of those developers hang-out might be more accommodating.
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Sensible choices would be 512MB or 1GB for first partition and 8GB for the second; assuming media is on a NAS and you're only using the LE box as a client device. If you also want to store media on the LE install the second partition needs to be much larger.
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Creating /storage/.config/samba.conf will not cause a boot failure. That code is relatively unchanged since OE 1.0 days and we would see thousands of forum posts if it were true. The boot message says it cannot find the SYSTEM file in the boot partition (first partition of two used by LE) which is normally because some other process messed with the bootloader config so the partition is wrongly identified or the file is not present or corrupted (cannot uncompress).
I've also tested this out now that I'm not on vacation and (sorry) it doesn't work quite as expected. It's not blocking creation of a directory; samba docs only talk about blocking files so it might be that explicit. Also, blocking a Thumbs.db file that I copy/paste prompts macOS/finder to ask for credentials instead of the copy operation silently failing. It may be easier to let Android do its thing uninterrupted and just run a regular find/delete command via cron instead.
NB: In MacOS you can prevent write of _ and . files: Mac OS X v10.4 and later: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections - Apple Support so no need to do that with Samba
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When you say that BT is no longer working. Was it previously working under an older LE release, or Ubuntu, or ??
Current guess is we're missing the firmware for the BT device. This is easily explained if you came from Ubuntu or an older OE release, but would be an unexplained regression if you were using an earlier LE version.
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Looks like we need to update the misc-firmware package to include various newer firmwares. It's an easy fix for LE 8.0.2.
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Samba hide Thumbs.db
disable-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-samba-shares
same principle can be used to prevent writing of other folders to the share. To do this in LE rename /storage/.config/samba.conf.sample to samba.conf and modify the shares, then reboot. The modified .conf will be used instead of the embedded (read-only) one if present. -
run "dmesg | paste" from the SSH console after a clean boot and share the URL please
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I cannot see any evidence of a BT chip in the lspci/lsusb output and dmesg shows nothing about BT devices - the last few lines are standard kernel log spew and don't mean anything. Identifying the chipset inside is the first stage of figuring out what's needed. If you have any output from an OE install that works, it would be useful.
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LE is intentionally an embedded/appliance-like OS. If you want apt-get and editable (also means breakable) everything there are several other good distro's to choose from.
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Home · Zomboided/service.vpn.manager Wiki · GitHub - Zomboided has a support thread in this forum somewhere
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As long as the hdparm command you're wanting to use works from the busybox bash shell (manually test first) that script should be fine. You'll find that Kodi is almost permanently doing something so sending /dev/sda to sleep (assuming it's the boot disk) probably doesn't achieve much.
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"dmesg | paste" and share the URL please
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Should be fine.
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It's time to create a Linux VM on your Windows laptop and learn how to use 'dd' (in Linux) to create disk/partition images. Windows is so completely stupid about multi-partition USB sticks and anything Linux related that this is the easy long-term option.
You can also use the backup function in LE settings which (unless your 16GB card is 95% full) will be several hundred percent quicker than imaging the entire card full of empty space.