Troubleshooting • Re: apt upgrade problem
Firstly check your free space. Errors while extracting packages can sometimes be caused by lack of space.Possibly you have a bad download. Try "sudo apt clean" to clear out the current downloaded...
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Hi,Running Trixie, on a RPi4B/4GB. I have hit a problem with a failed perl update, after running sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y:Code: $sudo apt upgradeYou might want to run 'apt...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: pw-loopback at boot on headless rpi
Don't know much about pipewire but your service will be running everything as root which is usually not a good idea and should only be done when absolutely necessary.Try addingCode:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • pw-loopback at boot on headless rpi
Hi guys,I've googled this forever but always run into the same dead end - no audio loop back.Here's the problem - I have an analog video / audio source which I want to play thru' an rpi4 to its hdmi...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi 4 Trixie Ethernet connection doesn't work
i have a couple of PI4s never had a problem with the wired connection.I'm thinking something in the router?remember that IP addresses must be unique. that is, if 2 devices try to use the same address,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Unable to set line 22 to input when upon running the...
Looks like an environment/setup issue rather than a bug in the Adafruit DHT library.If we follow their install instructions for blinka in a python venv on a Pi5 and pip install the DHT library,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: trouble with downloading RaspiOS via transmission...
Should be fixed now.Works fine for me too.Thanks for the helpStatistics: Posted by RaspberryDevil — Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:47 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Issue with latest Trixie updates
I stopped using SPI screens because of changes and them stopping working hopefully hdmi won't go the same way SPI screens exist because of the first feature-phones and photo-frames of 25 years ago....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Unable to set line 22 to input when upon running the script...
Hi, I get an Unable to set line 22 to input message when I try to run this scriptfor my DHT11 sensor from Thonny:# program DHT11 in thonny for pi 5from time import sleepimport boardimport...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: [SOLVED] Display issue with latest Trixie updates
Switched to a 5" pi touch 2 screen and the pygame.update() to part screen change persists.Statistics: Posted by gordon77 — Wed Oct 07, 2026 3:15 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: MIPI display with at lest 450mm cable
A shielded 22pin to 22pin FPC maybe will do. Official 50cm DSI cable is 22/15pin but can't be used with this panel.But as it's there I assume it has been tested and is working.Buy an official 5in and...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: NVME Reports full but isn't
Thanks for this, I think you may be on to something. I backup an image of my system to a QNAP NAS using crontab on the 4th of every month. This is the command that is run: sudo dd bs=4M...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi5 + X11 + tkinter animation: Frame rate drops...
Fyi: Same experience when seeking to move away from X11: as of starting the Python / Tkinker app, the responsiveness is gone with just the main window having a few buttons plus images. No animations,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: trouble with downloading RaspiOS via transmission...
To add to this from my qBittorrent client I'm also seeing the official torrent tracker (http://tracker.raspberrypi.org:6969/announce) reject announces for the last couple of trixie/bookworm releases...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi 4 Bookworm: persistent 100% swap after AIDE since...
Follow-up after upgrading to 6.12.109 and allowing normal unattended runsThanks again for the earlier explanation. I now have another clean reproduction which appears consistent with the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: HDMI related issues
I'm suspecting power management configuration has somehow changed. How or why, I don't know, but I changed power management settings with some obscure command line (thanks internet) and the Raspberry...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB Suddenly Stopped Booting — Solid Red...
All components are still intact. It was in a case, however when it stopped working, I took it out of the case to examine it/work on it. The micro SD card I’m using is a SANDISK Ultra 128GB. I’m just...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Display issue with latest Trixie updates
i have experience something similar.I have a KVM switch to switch my keyboard and monitor between my PI5 (with the latest updates for Trixie installed) and a PC. I have screen blanking enabled on both...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Issue with latest Trixie updates
After hours of frustration it appears to be something to do with the hdmi detection.If l connect the 4" to the Pi and a hdmi monitor to the second hdmi port l can configure both screens and get the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Brand new Pi: stuck on red screen (4 long, 5 short...
Hello. I am using the official Raspberry Pi power supply (27W USB-C) that I bought along with the board. I should clarify that without the microSD card, the Raspberry Pi 5 displays the EEPROM screen...
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