bullseye-5-install, not really

[mclien]

I just tried a run on that yesterday.
Install went fine as did the first setup.
Setting up the WiFi connection worked, too.
I also managed to install audacious. Not with synaptic, though, that resulted in an error every tie I tried the "apply" button, but apt from cli worked.
The sound with headphones was surprisingly "good" (compared to the mess before).
Other than that:
-no volume wheel (to expected, IIRC)
-mic of the headset not present (also a problem with the sound system, I guess)

I left it loading over night, which resulted in an unusable system. Boot works fine, but entering the login password works at best for the first 3 characters and the freezes (or freezes directly)
No difference if plugged in or not.

My device is prepreorder #174 (hope that is not the cause of the problem..)
EU 4GB mobile (aka with the modem)

 

[Askarus]

I tested bookworm and at least the login and volume wheel had no issues.

The headphone port never worked for me, no matter the Debian version.
So maybe try bookworm if you do not want to use buster.

 

[mclien]

Thanks for the hints.
My "concern" though: less than half a year till end of LTS for buster...

 

[mclien]

At least I can confirm: no sound over plugged in headphones (not automatically through pluggin in, nor over the plusaudio setup).

So, no sound (still) or no boot...

 

[Askarus]

I made more progress with Bookworm.
There is sound via headphone. I had to enter the MATE panel's sound settings and under the 'Output' tab set the output to 'Headphone'.
That magically did the trick for me did sound output via my headphones.

Post automatically merged: Feb 17, 2024

Thanks for the hints.
My "concern" though: less than half a year till end of LTS for buster...

Yeah, I would recommend to switch to Bookworm.
It is quite stable from what I see. Only the Modem is not there and I have issues reading exFat.
Also Vivaldi won't start telling me that there is some GPU issues. so no idea how stable that is.

Still, even with those issues I think we all should migrate to Bookworm and see if we can get things more stable if everyone improves the OS a tiny bit

 

[mclien]

The existing image is no install image, as I understand it. (might be mistaken there)
Question would be how to install that one.
(and sorry for misreading your suggestion as using buster instead of bullseye)

 

[mclien]

bookworm images starts find, setup begins.
screen calibration, user setup starts, passwd, passwd confirmation starts. No input after 3rd character, and after a moment:

 

[Askarus]

The existing image is no install image, as I understand it. (might be mistaken there)
Question would be how to install that one.
(and sorry for misreading your suggestion as using buster instead of bullseye)

You do not need an installer.
It's takes a little longer to install, but you can do it manually.

1. Download the .img
2. Make a bootable SD card out o that
   1. dd if=/bookworm.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M status=progress
   2. That will make you image of 4GB size
   3. Follow the instructions here to resize your partition
3. Now boot your Pyra from SD
4. Set up your OS
5. Bookworm is installed on your SD card
6. Eject SD card and insert into your computer
7. Copy bookworm.img to the home folder of the SD card
8. Boot the Pyra
9. Flash to emmc like you would flash on SD (select path to emmc this time)
   1. dd if=/bookworm.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M status=progress
   2. That will make you image of 4GB size
   3. Follow the instructions here to resize your partition
10. Shut down the Pyra
11. Eject the SD card
12. Boot the Pyra from the internal emmc

That might seem quite a lot to do but it's super easy and does not take long. I have done it several times during the last few days.

I suggest testing Bookworm from the SD card first and check if all you need is functional. For me it is and I switched to it to get more recent packages.

 

[mclien]

t is not a problem with the lenght of the plan or the linux skills (using UNIX/Linux since 30 years).

The problem is, that the pic from my post occurs at step:
"4. Set up you OS"
At least with the bookworm image on a 32G SDcard

 

[Askarus]

Stupid question, but is your SD-card okay?
I had issues and swapped the sd card.

 

[mclien]

"There are no stupid questions"
Well, it's fresh from the box... (I know, it's not a proof, but unlikely).
I'll do a buster install to confirm (buster was the only working one, which I did from another card, which is to small for the bookworm image).
"I'll be back"

 

[Askarus]

If you are willing to nuke your emmc, maybe install buster to SD and use that to set up bookworm on the emmc.
Maybe that could work.
Just try different things. Took me quite awhile too get mine in a working state.

 

[mclien]

SDcard works. Buster install (pyra-42-install.img) works, bookworm fails. So I guess it is the bookworm image.
result summary:
-buster works (no headphone sound)
-bullseye works once after install (with working headphone), then failed at login screen
-bookworm fails at password setting during system setup

 

[Askarus]

Did you install buster onto the SD card using the install.img? It installs to emmc, right?

Might be that there is something wrong with your Pyra. For me Bookworm works.

Other idea: Have you downloaded the image a second time? Maybe the download was faulty. Small chance but maybe worth a try.

Post automatically merged: Feb 18, 2024

Oh, maybe you want to check the serial output of your Pyra while it fails.
Maybe that reveals something.

Connect via picocom using
picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0

 

[mclien]

Yes to buster with install image to emmc.

minicom (slightly different syntax) is already installed.

minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyUSB0

strangely enough this time it worked.
OK installing needs the --allow-releaseinfo-change flag.

So far it seems to work, still from SD card though.

But no automount for the 2nd SDcard

 

[Askarus]

I am not familiar with that flag. Where did you add that? When dd the image?

 

[mclien]

Sound: working from the headphone plug, but still horrible quality with noises. Speakers very quiet.

Post automatically merged: Feb 18, 2024

I am not familiar with that flag. Where did you add that? When dd the image?

Ah, my mistake. I meant while installing new packages for the running System

sudo apt-get install <package.name> --allow-releaseinfo-change

 

[Askarus]

Sound: working from the headphone plug, but still horrible quality with noises. Speakers very quiet.

Post automatically merged: Feb 18, 2024

My headphone is not too bad and the speakers are loud.

Bash:
sudo apt-get install <package.name> --allow-releaseinfo-change

So you needed this in order to install something on your Bookworm? If so, that would be very strange. I never needed that.

 

[mclien]

My headphone is not too bad and the speakers are loud.

Which version of the Pyra do you have (mine is the prepreorder 174

So you needed this in order to install something on your Bookworm? If so, that would be very strange. I never needed that.

Yes, the version has changed from 12.0 to 12.5 was the note.

 

[Askarus]

Which version of the Pyra do you have (mine is the prepreorder 174

Latest hardware.

Yes, the version has changed from 12.0 to 12.5 was the note.

So if I do an apt update apt upgrade, it tells me that the version has changed.
However I never needed to use that flag for installing something.