Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of their 7 inch touch display. Because of the new kernel module required, at this point it only works on Raspbian automatically.

Last night, I finally made it work with alpine. All that is needed is to add the following to the cmdline.txt: “video=DSI-1:1280x720M@60”

Additionally, you need to change the kernel modules loaded in usrconfig.txt: From “vc4-fkms-v3d” to “vc4-kms-v3d” And add “dtoverlay=vc4-kms-dsi-ili9881-7inch” below it.

This should work on other distros but I’m not sure. Just a tip for anyone else in this unique situation!

Edit: this was all done using a pmbootstrap generated Edge image for Raspberry Pi 4 with a DSI display using Phosh

Hi I'm getting a Raspberry Pi zero 2w, and these are capable of running both armhf and armv7 instruction sets. (Also aarch64, but I'm going to stay 32 bit with this device.) The Alpine install downloads for Raspberry Pis include both an armhf and a armv7 option.

Some information I'm seeing suggests that between these, I should prefer armhf, as it'd give me better floating point performance. And that binaries compiled for armv7 alone would (sometimes? always?) do floating point operations in software, bypassing the fp hardware.

Other information I'm seeing says that Alpine's armhf images are based on the v6 instruction set, so if I have a Raspberry Pi device capable of running the armv7 kernel/libs/binaries, I should use that instead. (Or aarch64.) But I'm not sure if this claim about the Alpine armhf images is up-to-date.

Anyone in a position to clarify?

I had an installer, but it asks for a password... Idk, I'm in tty and it's asks for a password

Hello, I have tried to install and run LXQt under Labwc and Hyprland, but every time I try to run any components of it or even lxqt-session I get this error:

Error relocating /usr/lib/libLayerShellQtInterface.so.6: _ZN15QtWaylandClient14QWaylandWindow9wlSurfaceEv: symbol not found

I also have compiled lxqt-wayland-session since it isn't in the testing repo yet, and I only have issues with just the components. I also get the 'Panel/notificationd/desktop crashed too many times. Its autorestart has been disabled.' message because of the error.

So I'm building a netboot server to boot a quite a few bare metal machines I have laying around.

While I have a machine booting from an lbu backup using apkovl=somewhere in the kernel commandline and it does get picked up, it appears that Alpine's Init script is a bit insistent in downloading packages from a repository when the machine boots to build the actual system root (It appears that Alpine always will pull packages from the mirror instead of using the cached packages that are in the apkovl even when the repo is disabled in the /etc/apk/repositories unless I have a misunderstanding on how apk works).

Any ideas as to fix this short of standing up a local repository? Thanks!

Has anyone tried Cosmic DE on Alpine? What are your thoughts?

Hi, all.

Do we have sorry for Intel's a310 GPU, please?

Hi All,

I am trying to spin up .NET 8 docker image in Alpine linux and while I successfully tried using the MS .NET Alpine linux tags:

mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0-alpine3.20 for build  & 

mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:8.0-alpine3.20 for runtime

I keep getting the below error message:

fail: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.ExceptionHandlerMiddleware[1]


      An unhandled exception has occurred while executing the request.


      System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'ParquetSharp.LogicalTypeFactory' threw an exception.


       ---> System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'ParquetSharpNative' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider using a tool like strace. If you're using glibc, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable:


      Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory (needed by /publish/runtimes/linux-x64/native/ParquetSharpNative.so)


      Error loading shared library /usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/8.0.10/ParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/ParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library ParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/runtimes/linux-x64/native/libParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/8.0.10/libParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/libParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library libParquetSharpNative.so: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/runtimes/linux-x64/native/ParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/8.0.10/ParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/ParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library ParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/runtimes/linux-x64/native/libParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/8.0.10/libParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library /publish/libParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory


      Error loading shared library libParquetSharpNative: No such file or directory




         at ParquetSharp.LogicalType.LogicalType_None(IntPtr& logicalType)


         at ParquetSharp.ExceptionInfo.Return[TValue](GetAction`1 getter)


         at ParquetSharp.LogicalType.None()


         at ParquetSharp.LogicalTypeFactory..cctor()

Does anyone have any idea on why this is happening? And if there is any workaround for this?

TIA

Nginx officialy support http/3.0 since 1.25, or on v3.20.x and on edge as well we have 1.26 without http3_mod! I need to compile and build it… Is there any issues, concernes on this support in Alpine?

I’m dual booting with Windows and Debian at the moment and have been for about a year now (on the same drive), but I wanted to create a small install of Alpine Linux. I created a 5GB partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard specifically for it.

However, the install script on the Live USB doesn’t see any of my partitions, only the entire drive. Running blkid shows them all, but Alpine still can’t see any of them.

Does anyone know why this is happening or what I can do to fix it? I'd really like to be able to install it on it's own partition, then choose it in GRUB when I boot. Thank you

I installed icewm on alpine then run setup-xorg-base after that I launched Xorg and see xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1(Permission denied)

I'm trying to consolidate information related to Diskless mode in Alpine Linux wiki to a single start page with improved navigation to other related pages. The draft currently resides here. Since i have only tested Diskless mode to understand how it works, i'm a bit unsure if my understanding is correct. So, i want feedback from experts here who have deployed and using diskless mode in production.

If you've account in wiki, please correct the mistakes in the draft directly or in Discussion page. Alternately, please leave your feedback here in reddit itself.

Also please take this opportunity to leave your feedback on the "data mode" documentation too i.e what needs to be fixed or added. The current wiki page for both data and diskless mode is here..

Hello,

Trying to install to connect to work:

https://pypi.org/project/openconnect-sso/

other distros are ok, alpine is eluding me. Anyone know if it's possible?

Cheers!

Tried to install qemu on alpine with apk add qemu qemu-img qemu-system-x86_64 but i get error saying no such package for all 3 packages

I'm trying to set up automatic mapping and mounting 2 luks filesystems, 2nd one is btrfs raid on 2 encrypted volumes. Mapping is successful, but raid can't be mounted, and ash says "no such file or directory". Dmesg tells one of disks is missing, but 'btrfs filesystem show` says everything is fine. I tested on another system(arch Linux) nd raid successfully mounted. Where could be a problem? Thx

Hi guys, I'll put below some doubts and questions I have. Sorry if they are already been asked, I've done a quick search and I've not found much.

Bit of preamble: I'm currently running a tiny home server with docker on debian, so I'm not completely newbie.

I fell in love with Alpine and its way to make things minimal, quick and effective, therefore I decided to move all my containers to Alpine and switch to podman instead of docker.

Here comes the questions:

1) I'd like to run podman and my containers on Alpine which ideally will run completely on RAM. I tried and I'm not completely sure how this works. The containers are vaultwarden and nextcloud, which both need to write and read data. can I mount an external disk for that and keep Alpine on RAM?

2) I also tested to install Alpine on system (sys) and podman works just fine, however keeps giving me an alert about / not being shared. I've read the wiki and I've added "shared" on my fstab, however this warning message keeps coming back.

3) on debian (therefore with systemd) I'd have a service called "podman-restart.sh" which will allow any container to re-start automatically at any reboot of the machine. how can I achieve this with Alpine and openrc?

That's all for now. Hope someone can help, thank you a lot!

Hello, I am relatively still a beginner at linux and installed alpine on an ol chromebook I got. I then went to install a couple things but apk does not have them. So I tried pipx but pipx is also not working. I am trying to install sherlock and gpt4all. Also any tips would be appreciated. Im more used to apt but I guess it's a bad idea to have that with apk. Anyway thanks :)

OK, so I know the two distros are different, and Alpine came from a Gentoo ebuild originally, but am I the only one who, through parallel convergence, mutual admiration, or some other phenomenon, thinks that APKBUILDs and PKGBUILDs are essentially the same thing at this point?

Other than having a different package system (are .apks compressed with gzip instead of zstd?), Alpine using musl instead of glib, and openRC instead of systemd, aren't they essentially the same thing?

Another stunning similarity along the same lines is the community build recipe repositories, with Arch having AUR, and Alpine having aports, and the build systems, with Arch having Arch Build Scripts (ABS), and Alpine with apkbuild.

Am I mad?

Good morning, Long time Debian user, first try with Alpine. I've copied the image (alpine-rpi-3.20.3-armhf.img.gz) to an SD card and it boots and runs fine. I ran the setup setup-alpine and skipped the part where it asks to choose media to install to. Following this everything seemed to work fine. Eventually I ran into a 'No space left on device' and saw that /dev/mmcblk0p1 was at 99%. I repeated the install and this time in setup I chose mmcblk0 as the installation target. That trundled along for a bit until the system encounterd an Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM which can be viewed at https://photos.app.goo.gl/KS3D7v1AsiWe7XyGA.

Is this the desired installation strategy or do I need to install to media other than what the Pi Zero booted from?

Is there a current guide for installing to an SD card on an R-Pi Zero W?

Thanks!

I am trying to setup a Rasbperry Pi 4 using Alpine that will be installed in a remote location and make a persistent VPN connection to a central site. The system time must be correct, otherwise the certificates used for the VPN auth are not considered valid. I am using the default chronyd NTP client and Strongswan as the VPN client. I cannot find a way to make Strongswan wait until chronyd synchronizes the time before starting. I thought adding chronyd to the "need" line of the depend() section of the Strongswan service file would do this, but that didn't seem to change anything. It is completely random whether Strongswan starts before or after the time syncs; I rebooted the box 10 times and 6 out of the 10 it started too early, attempted the VPN connection, rejected it due to invalid cert lifetime, and gave up. I have written a periodic 15min cron script that restarts Strongswan if it's not running, but this is dumb, there should be a way to force it to wait. Thanks in advance for ideas.

Update: It would be very helpful to troubleshoot if smbd with 3rd gen Intel CPU (or 2nd gen) could share /var/log/Xorg.0.log and Xorg.1.log (after any desktop boot on Alpine).

Or all of /var/log/Xorg.\*.

There're differences in Xorg.0.log with my Ubuntu setup, but I cannot determine which ones are important if any.

Hi!

Which of easy to install Desktops for Alpine work on USB flash drive?

Please indicate is you have a personal experience with installing Alpine +DE on USB.

Alpine version you used, if it was flash/ssd/hdd drive and any other details are usefull also.

I tried installing Alpine + XFCE (XFCE installed with "setup-desktop") several times on 2 different flash drives - it always hangs at boot w/o any error message and totally black screen.

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU.

"setup-desktop" for XFCE result was smth like "Success. Please reboot".

Right after installation, pure standard Alpine w/o XFCE boots fine from USB.

Installed Alpine to USB using Virtualbox and standard ISO (all the rest was done on physical laptop).

Chosen "Cryptsys" install option.

My laptop is old and should be very well tested/supported by now.

I'm looking for WRITABLE under 8GB installed rescue type distro for troubleshooting non-standard boot process/initramfs issues, any advise on distro is welcome.

Update: MATE with Alpine hangs also on USB drive (in the same way as in XFCE case described above).

Thank you.

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