BPi-M3 new image: 2018-01-15-ubuntu-16.04-server-v1.0-bpi-m3mst-sd-emmc

embleton · February 6, 2018, 2:11am

Checked wireless with ubuntu 17.10 server setup and wireless is working fine connecting to my 2.4Ghz wireless AP.

Acapulco-Rolf · February 6, 2018, 1:17pm

Hi Mark

Thanks for sharing the update

I’ll try this build to see if I too can make a successful WiFi connection using this image

I’ll report back with outcomes

Sxren · March 7, 2018, 1:10pm

What is the login and password?

Regards, Søren

Sxren · March 7, 2018, 1:17pm

Hi Mark How do you login to the server? I have no clue on what login and password to use. Thanks in advance! Søren

Elluminatus · March 8, 2018, 3:08pm

Hi, is it right that sata is not implemented? no detection of sda. With other images working . Greetings Elluminatus

JokinAU · March 15, 2018, 6:45pm

I had to hack into the box, and I must say I did enjoy it! Much simpler than what I thought: Username: pi

Password: bananapi

It is in sudoers group, so you can run any command as sudo

I burnt the image using “Win 32 Disk Imager 1.0” into a 16GB PNY SD card, and it boots without any issue.

Some info:

It takes about one minute to prompt for console login. My 1080p tv says 1280*720p/60Hz
DHCP is working on the wired LAN
I couldn’t run apt-get upgrade. I had to sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock Then it just upgraded ok
Configure wifi using sudo nmtui (first create a connection, then activate it). DHCP working great
sshd daemon is working on LAN and wifi

Cheers, thanks, and enjoy it!

haydoiday228 · March 25, 2018, 4:06pm

Hello everybody. How to burn this image to emmc?

JokinAU · March 25, 2018, 6:35pm

I didn’t write it to eMMC directly: I wrote it to a 8GB SD. Then insert it, power it and while it is running from the SD, clone it to the eMMC:

sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 7.3 GiB, 7818182656 bytes, 15269888 sectors

So I cloned the SD (/dev/mmcblk0) to the eMMC:

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=10MB status=progress

Wait some minutes until it finishes. Then power it off, remove SD, and power it up! It may fsck, because the system didn’t dismount the fs properly before cloning, but that’s all!

You shouldn’t clone a live system, but it just works!

Edit: maybe I took the longest path… It may be easier following this: How to use bpi-copy command (Burning images to EMMC , Copying data from SD-Card/EMMC to be Images)

JSMAC · March 28, 2018, 11:40am

Does this image support Docker?

Does anyone know of any image of Banana M3 that supports Docker?

Vadym_Demchuk · March 31, 2018, 1:22pm

Does not support. I checked. The linux kernel version of this image is 3.4.39-BPI-M3-Kernel but docker supports 3.10.0 or newer.

● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-03-30 04:00:03 CST; 2min 31s ago
     Docs: http://docs.docker.com
  Process: 1951 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd-current --add-runtime docker-runc=/usr/libexec/docker/docker-runc-current --default-runtime=docker-runc --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd --userland-proxy-path=/usr/libexec/docker/docker-proxy-current --seccomp-profile=/etc/docker/seccomp.json $OPTIONS $DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS $DOCKER_NETWORK_OPTIONS $ADD_REGISTRY $BLOCK_REGISTRY $INSECURE_REGISTRY $REGISTRIES (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 1951 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 30 04:00:01 bpi-iot-ros-ai systemd[1]: Starting Docker Application Container Engine...
Mar 30 04:00:02 bpi-iot-ros-ai dockerd-current[1951]: time="2018-03-30T04:00:02.298605877+08:00" level=warning msg="could not change group /var/run/docker.sock to docker: group docker not found"
Mar 30 04:00:02 bpi-iot-ros-ai dockerd-current[1951]: time="2018-03-30T04:00:02.306710485+08:00" level=info msg="libcontainerd: new containerd process, pid: 1957"
Mar 30 04:00:03 bpi-iot-ros-ai dockerd-current[1951]: time="2018-03-30T04:00:03.318203884+08:00" level=fatal msg="Your Linux kernel version 3.4.39-BPI-M3-Kernel is not supported for running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.10.0 or newer."
Mar 30 04:00:03 bpi-iot-ros-ai systemd[1]: docker.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 30 04:00:03 bpi-iot-ros-ai systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.
Mar 30 04:00:03 bpi-iot-ros-ai systemd[1]: Unit docker.service entered failed state.
Mar 30 04:00:03 bpi-iot-ros-ai systemd[1]: docker.service failed.

But I found a way to prevent this warnings. If you put the variable DOCKER_NOWARN_KERNEL_VERSION=1 (DOCKER_NOWARN_KERNEL_VERSION) at the end of the file /etc/sysconfig/docker (CentOS image), the warning disappeares. But it will lead to the next error, that this kernel does not support overlay (Some kind of network). But it’s probably not necessary for you. Perhaps there is a way to avoid this.

I’m also looking for an opportunity to install a docker to the BPI M3. But now I did not find anything(

sinovoip · April 11, 2018, 8:14am

sinovoip · June 7, 2018, 12:33am

kabal · July 24, 2018, 6:27pm

hello my banana doesn’t sees sata hard drive

Jackzeng · July 25, 2018, 12:44pm

Hello，please try images here, it supports sata.

BananaPi BPI-M3 New Image (New Emmc) Ubuntu16.04 & Debian9 Release 2018-07-18

Namuyang · October 18, 2018, 12:41pm

I’m in trouble about Segmentation fault on using many cores.
For example, building with make -j 4. Using many cores often raise Segmentation fault.
Single core working don’t raise any problems.
Do you know the probrem?

Jackzeng · October 19, 2018, 3:20am

Hello，I tried this image and did a test, my board support multicore

could you show me the debug console terminal log？

or did you change kernel smp configuration？

“CONFIG_SMP=y”

or something wrong in your compiled project.

Namuyang · October 19, 2018, 3:45pm

Thank you for comment.
I check SMP flag enabled.
Debug console terminal log? Are you saying about three pin headers neer uboot button? I need to find USB to Serial port…

I use leveldb for test compile.

$ wget https://github.com/google/leveldb/archive/v1.20.tar.gz
$ zcat v1.20.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd leveldb-1.20
$ make -j 4

I often encountered Segmentation fault but can continue compile and complete. Addtion to that, I find that single core working raise rarely raise the error. After I strengthen power supply voltage, I feel improvement of the error.
May be power supply is the matter. Do M3 users use good power supply and heatshink?

Jackzeng · October 22, 2018, 2:35am

if you use “make”, you don’t need to think about dependency relationships, because everything will be compiled step by step.

But if you use “make -j x” that means you use multiple threads(x = 4, you will use 4 threads to compile project) ,so you need to make sure the dependency relationships in your project Makefile are clear. if not, you probably will meet errors.

Namuyang · October 22, 2018, 12:27pm

Thank you for comment.
I checked three times for dependencies for each RasberryPi 3B+ and OrangePi PC2, make check completed. I don’t have Cortex-A7 PC boards, so use instead Cortex-A53.
I clockdown to 480MHz(no boost), but sometimes Segfault occured. I set a large heatshink and a FAN. Core temp don’t over 45C. I check voltage(5.0~5.5v) by tester.
what’s make unstable?
I hear overheating cause Segfault, but I cooled Cores and set low frequency.

Namuyang · October 31, 2018, 12:22pm

Asked BananPi-M3 seller and find error on curl.
curl: relocation error: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libldap_r-2.4.so.2: symbol pthread_rwlock_r lock, version GLIBC_2.4 not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference
Do you know the error? Is curl version too new?

This error will be fixed by apt-get --reinstall install curl and restart.