@EarthOrgUK it uses a SD card to boot but then runs off a nvme drive so should be okay, it could be a power supply issue though.
I think my plan to build a replacement server and then once solarcene.community is stable again I can then investigate what's gone wrong with the original
Closed shops as a sign of a healthy city. I like seeing the home-made ’we’re on holidays, back in a month’ signs on small businesses at this time of year. I take it as a sign that the city centre is truly mixed-use with room for one-person and family businesses. And with room for a local community of ordinary residents who just think ’ah, well I hope Inger has a nice holiday, my dry-cleaning can easily wait.’
Update:
I've moved gitea off the orangepi5 and have it now working well on my #pinephone which is connected via usb ethernet to the network, it's running #postmarketos and seems to be handling it well https://git.solarcene.community
The mastodon instance is still on the orangepi and while it does keep resetting it seems to be reasonably stable, it's all backed up, I'm still planning what to do next, I might build a second server and then move everything across. Still not sure what's made the #orangepi5 unstable after over a year of running
I've started work on getting the system back online, currently I've got the orangepi offline and am exploring whether my #pinephone could be used to host some of the services. I used jump drive to install the latest stable #postmarketos to the eMMC, enabled ssh, installed a number of dependencies and currently am slowly installing ruby to see if mastodon might actually work (it should fit within the specs, just)
Actually quite fun
Overall we aren't doing super well with vegetables from the garden, courgettes have been small and quick to go mouldy, french beans have been sparse (though easier to manage as no sudden glut). This year I've commited a whole bed to tomatoes and must admit they seem to be doing well, just got my first red ones. And I've had mixed results with the aeroponics (but that's just an experiment)
I probably should have added some manure to the beds, but it quite possibly has been the very hot weather we've had.
So it seems that it's the orangepi itself which is taking down the network, as soon as I turned it off everything else started to work.
Unsure what is happening here but it's not great - next step will be to boot it up, back it up and then reinstall Linux.
Solarcene will be offline for a little while longer, sorry
@ge0rg oh don't worry it's been a fun challenge!
Ive been unable to interrupt the boot process, uboot has a 0second delay so can't get in there. I've found what looks like a very similar firmware dump https://gitlab.com/ZX7520v3_Firmwares/F231/F231ET which has helped me look at the various boot scripts,
Ive been able to clear individual nvram with an exploit but unable to set nvram. Currently it's stuck in this AMT mode which means I can't send any web interface commands.
If I can get access and can open up the hardware it might make a rather cool off-grid static website server and only costs £10
I have been having fun with a #reverseengineering #sidequest seeing if I can get root access to a Tenda 4G185 MiFi device which runs Linux and is based on ZTE ZX297520V3. Inspired by @ge0rg Sadly the standard exploits seem to have been patched (no injections through the web interface) but I did manage to get serial access but can't seem to login despite everything pointing to the password being 'admin'.
I've managed to get it into a special debug mode called AMT mode, it has opened up 3 serial ports over usb, the first seems to use a protocol called AMT, the device has run a binary called `zte_amt` - I've never come across this and searches bring up Android Multi Tool or a lot of Intel AMT stuff which I don't think is correct - has anyone come across this protocol?
There is a suggestion there might also be #adb might be running as well so I'm going to focus on that for now
Ciara
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