AudioLinux and NUC Troubleshooting and Tuning

[hifi25nl]

6 minutes ago, BigAlMc said:

 

Thanks Pierro,

 

So at least my main suspect has been verified.

 

Is there a way on a windows laptop to set or change this partition size? Perhaps using Rufus or Ethcher etc?

 

I specifically want to avoid using GParted but could create an Ubuntu boot image as last resort.

 

Cheers,

Alan

 

No possible on Windows but you can use the ramroot mode suggested before but only if you have enough RAM

[BigAlMc]

1 minute ago, hifi25nl said:

 

No possible on Windows but you can use the ramroot mode suggested before but only if you have enough RAM

Thanks Pierro,

 

Will give it a go.

 

Cheers,

Alan

[jcn3]

5 minutes ago, hifi25nl said:

Menu version and audiolinux version are different

 

Menu 208 will add most of the changes from 2.0 to 2.1/2.1.1

 

so to be fully at 2.1.1, i need to make a new stick -- correct?

[jcn3]

Just now, BigAlMc said:

Thanks Pierro,

 

Will give it a go.

 

Cheers,

Alan

 

alan -- fyi i am using a 32gb stick and my nuc has 16g of ram

[hifi25nl]

2 minutes ago, jcn3 said:

 

so to be fully at 2.1.1, i need to make a new stick -- correct?

 

Yes but differences are small

[dctom]

18 hours ago, rickca said:

Audiolinux lxqt 1 year support with image $59

Audiolinux lxqt unlimited time support $ 119

 

Thanks

[BigAlMc]

Hi Pierro,

 

Am I missing something with 2.1 AL Headless or is the only way to disable Ramroot to add a keyboard & monitor during boot?

 

Is there a command I can use instead because I've configured my NUC, like many others have, to use the minimum assets (USB, HDMI, etc) and connecting a monitor and keyboard is a pain in the ass to be frank.

 

Am I misunderstanding this menu or have you removed the ability to select/unselect RamRoot via Putty?

 

Thanks,

Alan

 

 

[hifi25nl]

Ramroot 2.0 is working in a different way than previous version. The official method is the one recommended.

If you want to disable ramroot when the system is loaded to RAM (after making a backup possibly) you could go to a root console and type

ramroot -D

When finished, save the system with

ramsave

and reboot.

With this manual method you will have some ramroot messages at the last boot stage, even if ramroot is really disabled.

 

 

 

[lmitche]

In case you are interested, here are the commands to turn off Energy Efficient Ethernet on Archlinux. They need to be run from an elevated CLI. They work on both my AMD server and NUC I7 endpoint.

 

Note: The device name in the examples below, enp5s0f3u4, needs to be substituted with the unique device name used in your build.

 

Do this by typing: #ip a 

 

1) Load the ethernet tool: #pacman -S ethtool
2) Show the current state: #ethtool --show-eee enp5s0f3u4

3) Set eee off: #ethtool --set-eee enp5s0f3u4 eee off

 

If you are in ramroot don't forget to save.

 

 

[juliocat]

I can't install MPD on Audiolinux Headless 2.1.1, anyone with that problem too??

[lmitche]

18 minutes ago, lmitche said:

In case you are interested, here are the commands to turn off Energy Efficient Ethernet on Archlinux. They need to be run from an elevated CLI. They work on both my AMD server and NUC I7 endpoint.

 

Note: The device name in the examples below, enp5s0f3u4, needs to be substituted with the unique device name used in your build.

 

Do this by typing: #ip a 

 

1) Load the ethernet tool: #pacman -S ethtool
2) Show the current state: #ethtool --show-eee enp5s0f3u4

3) Set eee off: #ethtool --set-eee enp5s0f3u4 eee off

 

If you are in ramroot don't forget to save.

 

 

Unfortunately disabling eee with ethtool will not survive a reboot. It looks like a kernel command line option will do the trick.

 

Piero, it's probably best to do an expert menu choice for this.  What do you think?

 

Larry

[hifi25nl]

First check the name of your network interface with
networkctl
If, for example, your interface is enp1s0, as root:
ethtool --set-eee enp1s0 eee off
To check if really disabled:
ethtool --show-eee enp1s0
To make it persistent after a reboot, you should add igb.EEE=0 to kernel line in /boot/loader/entries/audiolinux.conf
Example:
options root=PARTUUID=166ad16d-098d-4453-ab07-7c5255b4d451 rw quiet intel_pstate=enable efi=runtime audit=0 igb.EEE=0 nosmt

[hifi25nl]

13 minutes ago, juliocat said:

I can't install MPD on Audiolinux Headless 2.1.1, anyone with that problem too??

 

Test in user command line:

yay -Sy mpd --noconfirm

 

Network must be up...

[juliocat]

3 hours ago, hifi25nl said:

 

Test in user command line:

yay -Sy mpd --noconfirm

 

Network must be up...

Thanks, it's installed, but it only appears in enabled audio services but not in running audio services and cantata doen't connect to audiolinux machine via 6600 port

[BigAlMc]

Hi Pierro,

 

What do I need to do to get Ethool installed and working?

 

 

Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

[elan120]

4 minutes ago, BigAlMc said:

What do I need to do to get Ethool installed and working?

Have you get to try this command?

 

#pacman -S ethtool

 

 

[BigAlMc]

Hi,

 

Doesn't seem to be working:

 

 

Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

[elan120]

5 minutes ago, BigAlMc said:

Hi,

 

Doesn't seem to be working:

 

 

Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

Hi Alan,

 

Could you try install ethtool again using the command earlier but without # in front?

 

[hifi25nl]

The command is not

#pacman -S ethtool

but 

pacman -S ethtool

better to refresh database with

pacman -Sy ethtool

[lmitche]

1 hour ago, BigAlMc said:

Hi,

 

Doesn't seem to be working:

 

 

Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

Alan,

 

Sorry, by Unix convention the leading # sign tells you that you need to be root to execute the command. Otherwise # means comment and everything following is ignored to end-of-line EOL. That's why nothing happened above.

 

Larry

[luisma]

I'm having a weird issue with the latest version, downloaded today 2.1.1 and updating the menu is fine however updating the system I'm getting errors (see below) so the process ends but when I do an update again it starts again and fails.

 

There is space on the disk

[root@audiolinux audiolinux]# df -H
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             2.1G     0  2.1G   0% /dev
run             2.1G  730k  2.1G   1% /run
/dev/sdb2        15G  2.4G   12G  17% /
tmpfs           2.1G     0  2.1G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           2.1G     0  2.1G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           2.1G     0  2.1G   0% /tmp
/dev/sdb1       511M   50M  462M  10% /boot
tmpfs           402M     0  402M   0% /run/user/1000

 

So I don't know if it fails because the packages are not available for some temporary problem or something else

 

@hifi25nl can you please take a look Piero?

 

libxml2-2.9.9-6-...  1270.8 KiB  9.47 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'intel-ucode-20191115-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.evowise.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'intel-ucode-20191115-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.rackspace.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'intel-ucode-20191115-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.rackspace.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed retrieving file 'talloc-2.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.evowise.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'talloc-2.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.rackspace.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'talloc-2.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.rackspace.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
 tevent-1:0.9.39-...    48.8 KiB  9.53 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%

 

 

[hifi25nl]

You can try to edit with File Editor root the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and

1) put # in front of Worldwide servers:
#Server = http://mirrors.evowise.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

2) Remove # in front of the servers of your country

3) Update the database
pacman -Syy

If you have still the same errors, wait some hours, since maybe the archlinux servers are not in sync yet.

[BigAlMc]

Hi @hifi25nl,

 

When I try to update Install Roon in the AL2.1 headless that you sent me it asks for Root password, but then whizzes through the update way to fast and the update seems to fail.

 

I'm trying to manually force the Roon 1.7 update through before I set up my Roon Server and enable Ramroot  (as the overnight automatic update in Roon failed so I'm trying to fix it).

 

Any way I can check what version is installed before I proceed? And does the below look like a failure to you?

 

Many Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

 

[BigAlMc]

20 minutes ago, BigAlMc said:

Hi @hifi25nl,

 

When I try to update Install Roon in the AL2.1 headless that you sent me it asks for Root password, but then whizzes through the update way to fast and the update seems to fail.

 

I'm trying to manually force the Roon 1.7 update through before I set up my Roon Server and enable Ramroot  (as the overnight automatic update in Roon failed so I'm trying to fix it).

 

Any way I can check what version is installed before I proceed? And does the below look like a failure to you?

 

Many Thanks,

Alan

 

 

 

 

 

Nevermind. It came good. Several reboots and several attempts later it did a proper install.

[jkelly]

On that same update note...if my iPad running the Roon app says there is an Roon update - and I agree to update, will that update the RoonServer on Audiolinux? Or do I have to go to the audiolinux 2 menu and update there?