Troubleshooting • Re: RPi5 LED occasionally gives 8 green flashes at start up
My 4Gb Pi 5 does this too - consistently happens after a shutdown then restart without removing power. Unplugging and replugging fixes it. I'll wait for an official release since it does not...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi is dying all the time
I would first try updating to the 6.12 kernel, which is at 6.12.18-v8-16k+Code: sudo rpi-updateThen take a look at using watchdog:https://diode.io/blog/running-forever-w ... e-watchdogStatistics:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • CM5 not booting OpenWRT when RPI5 does
Hello,I'm facing one issue which drives me mad, I'm missing something.I have bought a brand new compute module 5 with eMMC (CM5102016) to create an OpenWRT router thanks to this board :...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: VNC server not working
Hello Kevin,// Cutset x11, enabled vnc (it set up wayvnc) and set resolution to 1280x720I'm confused by it set up wayvnc. That doesn't seem correct when using X11. Perhaps it may do that if you don't...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Unable to connect my pixel 7a phone to Raspberry Pi 5 via...
hi, I want send photos from Google pixel 7a phone to Raspberry Pi 5 via bluetooth . I installed OBEX server following instuctionsviewtopic.php?p=2240202&hilit=OBEX#p2240202The OBEX server...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 with monitor flickering on startup
You can use SSH for console or VNC for acsessing the GUI. You will have to enable the option before you're able to use it. Look at the documentation section for how-toI'll try this soon.Statistics:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: My two new Raspberry Pi 4B will not boot
Might be monitor recognition - if the rainbow screen appears then the device is starting to boot.Can you try a different display device to see if anything appears?Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Mon...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: replacement deskpi lite HDMI not working
Ok, I'll look on Google and troubleshoot, if nothing works, I'll return it and try an electrocookie caseStatistics: Posted by Minecraftplayer2937 — Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:13 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry as Wifi Hotspot with NordVPN
Doing a bit more research, I got to the bootom of this.In a somewhat recent nordvpn versions, firewall rules in iptables got more restrictive, and dhcp packets would get drop. You can see that by...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry CM4 pwm-backlight duty cycle missing
Is there any component in Raspbian modifying /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/bl_power?Or which component of Raspbian ensures /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/bl_power is 0 and not 4?Statistics:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Configuring sshd to listen on particular IP failing....
Indeed, I checked one of my systems and ssh is set to After=network.target. Unfortunately, that's too early if you want to do something like you're doing, to constrain sshd to specific IP...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Pi5 RPiOS Bookworm GPT PMBR size mismatch
Hi,Running lastest Raspberry Pi OS 64bit Lite on a Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed this error message:GPT PMBR size mismatch (4294967294 != 9767541166) will be corrected by write.after running sudo fdisk...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Pi5 RPiOS Bookworm GPT PMBR size mismatch
The 1st boot resizer script apparently simply claims everything till the last sector. It is quite amazing that for a RPiOS Bookworm om a Pi5 no GPT compliance is taken into account. GPT uses a backup...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Recommended software authentication using RealVNC
I have VNC configured to run a virtual desktop at boot using cron.Code: @reboot vncserver-virtual :1 -geometry 1720x1300When I log into that display, it doesn't ask me for any credentials and when I...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Making clone / image of SD card for backup
5. I tried using image-backup tool / scriptsbut It's not working correctly - I would like to solve this as it will make smallerimages.6. I ended up just using the dd command. It worked, however there...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: CM5 not booting OpenWRT when RPI5 does
Have OpenWRT updated their images for the D0 stepping of BCM2712? If not then it won't work with the 2GB Pi5 or any CM5s as they use D0.I only see "Raspberry Pi 5" offered as a model on their page,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Green light flashes off, had 12V plugged into it
Am I right in thinking the audio jack looks shot? It doesn't shine like the others / looks black. Or has that been a red herring for me?Statistics: Posted by mhnine13 — Mon Mar 17, 2025 8:03 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Cannot get 3 PIs to boot.
I got one of the pis from adafruit and two from different sellers on Amazon. I am sure all these pis are working because I used them about 3 months ago. I plugged the pis into a monitor without an sd...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • WiFi Issues on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Raspberry Pi OS...
Hi everyone,I've been having major issues getting WiFi to work reliably on my Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W when using Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit. I used Raspberry Pi Imager v1.8.5 and tried all available...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: STICKY: Bookworm, Point to Point Ethernet (inc g_ether)
A solution I found, with much help from Telegram "Linux for Everyone" people is relatively simple. The details are in https://x.com/i/grok/share/scmM5yZrHm8LakpNnWAS6zD1K . Basically, the commands for...
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