orion5x housekeeping

[Martin Michlmayr]

I was looking at debian-installer and thought it would be good to see
if there are maintainers (and if not, at least users) for the orion5x
devices we supposedly support.

I see 3 classes of devices:

1) Linkstation: these were added by various people over the years but
I don't think we had a formal maintainer in a long time.  Roger
Shimizu put in some effort recently but I'm not sure which devices he
has to test.

Looking at debian-installer, I see support for:

* Buffalo Kurobox Pro: I know various Debian people had these.  Are
people still using these devices?  Is Debian working?  Is the
installer working?

* Buffalo Linkstation Mini (LS-WSGL): Roger pointed out that this was
converted to Device Tree recently, so it's definitely broken in the
installer in unstable.  Adapting the build scripts to append the DT
blob is easy, but can anyone test?

* Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live: no idea
* Buffalo Linkstation Live V3 (LS-CHL): no idea.  Any comments?

Roger mentioned u-boot restrictions on the size of the kernel that we
broke.  Does that apply to all Linkstation devices?  Do we have to
drop support for all of them in stretch?

2) HP Media Vault mv2120: this used to work fine and had users but I
haven't heard anything recently.  Any users?

3) QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and QNAP TS-409: we dropped installer support in
2011 due to the installer ramdisk being too large to fit in flash, but
I brought support back to life in the last few days thanks to XZ
compression and some other changes.  There's a problem with qcontrol
but otherwise they work fine.  I'm happy to take care of them for
stretch.

[and I should add 4) D-Link DNS-323: the Debian kernel team dropped
support due to size limits and this is not coming back.]

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

banana pro | bananian does boot, debian armhf-netinst not.

[toogley]

Hello,

# The versions used:
bananian version: 15.08 (released 2015-08-22)
debian version: 8.2.0 armhf-netinst (2015-09-06 16:24)

Accoding to http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armhf/ch02s01.html.en 
the armhf architecture is the correct one.



command for both: sudo dd bs=4M if=[path]/[imagename] of=/dev/sde && sync

=> bananian works, debian not. It simplay doesn't show any reaction
=> What is my mistake?

security labeling handle: No such file or directory (what file?)

[Alan Corey]

With my Debian Kit installation on a phone (Motorola Mote-e2, Android
5.02) I seem to be having selinux problems.  I've read part of
Gentoo's selinux tutorial at
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Tutorials and I'm trying to
figure this out.

Did:
setenforce permissive
root@gsm:/# getenforce
Permissive
root@gsm:/# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binutils
Suggested packages:
  binutils-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binutils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3542 kB of archives.
After this operation, 17.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb (--unpack):
 cannot get security labeling handle: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ls -lZ binutils*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root u:object_r:unlabeled:s0 3533014 Feb 25  2015
-binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb

[cd /etc]

ls -lZ | grep selinux
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   u:object_r:unlabeled:s0  4096 Dec 30 01:23
selinux

There was a posted suggestion that remounting /etc/selinux ro fixes this error
but it's not a mountpoint here.  What if I chmod it not writeable?
chmod 600 selinux
root@gsm:/etc# ls -la | grep selinux
drw---.   3 root root4096 Dec 30 01:23 selinux
Doesn't work.  Set it back to 755

Do I need to get the source of dpkg to find out what file it's not
finding or does somebody know what this error message is talking
about?  Is it because the deb apparently doesn't have selinux
attributes set?

I did a little reading and Android 5 was the first version where
selinux wasn't permissive by default, wonder if that's why there are
so many problems.  I'm a little confused about how having the Android
side using selinux affects the Debian side.

I can't install binutils and some other packages, some I can.  Mostly
I just want Make, for now, and stuff to compile C programs.


-- 
Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX

Re: security labeling handle: No such file or directory (what file?)

[Alan Corey]

Maybe I figured out something.  I don't have an selinux policy under
Debian, no files for creating one.  But the kernel was built for
Android which expects one.  That could be the missing file.  In
OpenBSD there are tools for finding out things about the kernel, I
don't know how to do that in Linux. The error message may come from
the kernel.  I'll try setting up some policy just so there is one.
seinfo says there's no default policy.

On 12/30/15, Alan Corey  wrote:
> With my Debian Kit installation on a phone (Motorola Mote-e2, Android
> 5.02) I seem to be having selinux problems.  I've read part of
> Gentoo's selinux tutorial at
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Tutorials and I'm trying to
> figure this out.
>
> Did:
> setenforce permissive
> root@gsm:/# getenforce
> Permissive
> root@gsm:/# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   binutils
> Suggested packages:
>   binutils-doc
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   binutils
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/3542 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 17.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb (--unpack):
>  cannot get security labeling handle: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> ls -lZ binutils*
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root u:object_r:unlabeled:s0 3533014 Feb 25  2015
> -binutils_2.25-5_armhf.deb
>
> [cd /etc]
>
> ls -lZ | grep selinux
> drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   u:object_r:unlabeled:s0  4096 Dec 30 01:23
> selinux
>
> There was a posted suggestion that remounting /etc/selinux ro fixes this
> error
> but it's not a mountpoint here.  What if I chmod it not writeable?
> chmod 600 selinux
> root@gsm:/etc# ls -la | grep selinux
> drw---.   3 root root4096 Dec 30 01:23 selinux
> Doesn't work.  Set it back to 755
>
> Do I need to get the source of dpkg to find out what file it's not
> finding or does somebody know what this error message is talking
> about?  Is it because the deb apparently doesn't have selinux
> attributes set?
>
> I did a little reading and Android 5 was the first version where
> selinux wasn't permissive by default, wonder if that's why there are
> so many problems.  I'm a little confused about how having the Android
> side using selinux affects the Debian side.
>
> I can't install binutils and some other packages, some I can.  Mostly
> I just want Make, for now, and stuff to compile C programs.
>
>
> --
> Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX
>


-- 
Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX

Re: orion5x housekeeping

[Mike Thompson]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Martin Michlmayr  wrote:

> 2) HP Media Vault mv2120: this used to work fine and had users but I
> haven't heard anything recently.  Any users?
>

I just installed Debian Jessie on two HP MV2120's I use for backup systems
at my house in the past week. Jessie came up perfectly fine.  My only
complaint is that SATA performance is a bit slow, but I don't know if this
is from the low specs on the orion5x CPU or if the SATA drivers are not
very polished.  Otherwise they are great little systems to run Debian and
software RAID on.

Hopefully Debian can be maintained on the HP MV2120 into the future...

Mike