Installing s-tui and pre-requisites

s-tui is a nice terminal graphic performance monitor, showing utilization, frequency and system temperature. 

Here is an article about s-tui

https://linoxide.com/monitoring-2/s-tui-terminal-tool-monitoring-cpu-temperature-linux/

and the GIThub link

https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui

It is installable with pip, so pip must be installed.

To do that, first install pip

sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

then pull in pip

sudo easy_install pip

next one can install s-tui

pip install s-tui

It's been tried out on raspberry pi, raspian, and on ubuntu 16.04 on intel.

It needs work on armbian, at least on the orangepi zero system.

Program attiny 85 with arduino uno

http://curiousmotor.blogspot.in/2017/08/how-to-program-attiny-8545-using.html

Full details on link, showing lashup here from article on link above.


 After uploading the code, grab your Attiny and other stuff and set up things this way-

Raspberry pi zero headless setup

5/21/2019, another setup for headless.  Includes how to do multiple WIFI ssids

https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/raspberry-pi-zerow-headless-wifi-setup.html

Note:  at end of this, remember to change power save setting

https://www.gaggl.com/2017/08/set-up-a-raspberry-pi-zero-headless/

credit to leo gaggl

If you are using the GUI (Raspian full download) and want to connect your RPi Zero to a keyboard and monitor there are probably easier ways to do this. These notes are for people that want to use a headless (no monitor and GUI) setup ready to connect to your RPi after first boot via SSH from another terminal.

Download Raspbian Lite

wget -O raspbian-lite-latest.zip https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
Download link: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Write Image to SD Card

dd bs=4M if=2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch-lite.img of=/dev/sdb
After this step there should be 2 additional mounts (if not mount the 2 SD card partitions manually).

Set up network interfaces

Create a new config file for the wireless interface.
cd etc/network/interfaces.d/
vim wlan0.conf
Add the following to the new file (if you want to use DHCP – change to static if you want to fix the IP):
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Set up connection details for local wireless network

vim etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Check the file and ensure the network settings are as per the Wireless Network you are connecting to.

country=AU
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
ssid="SSID"
psk=HASHED_PSK_VALUE
}
 

country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
    ssid="your_real_wifi_ssid"
    scan_ssid=1
    psk="your_real_password"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

You could use the clear-text PSK passphrase but I prefer not to do that in configuration files. Create a PSK hash using ‘wpa_passphrase‘ this older article
There could be other config values you might need depending on the network you are connecting to. More info: https://linux.die.net/man/5/wpa_supplicant.conf.

Ensure there are DNS Servers configured

sudo vim etc/resolv.conf
Add the following to the new file (or your own nameservers):
# Google's public DNS servers
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Enable SSH Access

Create an ssh empty file in the mounted boot partition. This is necessary to enable SSH access as SSH is by default disabled on more recent versions of Raspbian.
cd boot/
sudo touch ssh

Boot RPi

Boot the Rpi by powering up and after ~30secs you should be able to connect to the IP assigned. Check your router or ise ‘nmap’ or similar to check the assigned IP:
sudo nmap -p22 -sV 10.1.1.0/24
Default login details are
UID: pi
PWD: rasbperry
My normal further setup steps for RPi 3 are here.
EDIT [2017-08-21]: One of the things necessary on later RPi’s is to turn off power saving mode on the WLAN interface.
sudo iw dev wlan0 set power_save off

Raspberry Pi forum entry link for headless setup

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=191252 

Another headless setup page

https://hackernoon.com/raspberry-pi-headless-install-462ccabd75d0

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unix source link, TUHS.org

Page with unix sources.

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/

systemd action 9 suspended

getting systemd action 9 suspended.

Hint here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/108924/missing-dev-xconsole-causes-rsyslog-to-stop-as-well-as-all-other-services

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/168215/create-several-dev-xconsole-files-automatically-upon-boot

https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/T806
"Root cause: rsyslog was trying to use xconsole, a program not installed, to send some logs to."

seems to have vanished after installing xterm, though not clear why.

/etc/init.d/rsyslogd has code to create /dev/xconsole (which is supposedly the problem it's missing) by linking /run/xconsole to /dev/xconsole.

After installing xterm they are both still missing.

Note: this system is a server configured system with xfce4 xrdp and tightvnc installed to give remote access.  Suggestion that xterm was missing is in other online hints.

XRDP failure log message: connecting to 127.0.0.1 5910 error - problem connecting

The messages

connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 3350
sesman connect ok
sending login info to sesman
login successful for display 10
started connecting
connecting to 127.0.0.1 5910
error - problem connecting

Printed in the dialog box when attempting to connect to an XRDP enabled system.

The latter problem implies a connectivity problem, which couldn't be further from the cause.

Many sites insist that installing XRDP, vncserver (of some sort) in one order or another is the problem.  Also misleading.

Then you look in xrdp-sesman-log in /var/log, you will see this

[INFO ] starting Xvnc session...
[ERROR] X server for display 10 startup timeout
[INFO ] starting xrdp-sessvc - xpid=3531 - wmpid=3530
[ERROR] X server for display 10 startup timeout
[ERROR] another Xserver is already active on display 10
[DEBUG] aborting connection...[20130627-08:55:49]
[INFO ] ++ terminated session:  username root, display :10.0, session_pid 3529, \

      ip 192.168.0.227:59050 - socket: 7

Indicating that somehow your RDP session has two Xservers active.  What happens when you log in is that a login method is performed to authenticate, and the top dialog indicates the progress of that.

Then it will spawn some VNC server session for the X session (uses 10, 11, etc.) to connect.

If you read the symptoms here, there is already a session or server on 5910.  Completely wrong.

To find the problem, one has to try running the window manager.  I don't know if this would happen for other than xfce4, which I use, but it produces the root problem.  run:

If you try running vncserver, you will see at the end of the startup this:

[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element built-ins, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

Turns out that if any failure occurs in the chain of events between the authentication after the RDP login and getting the session going, you get the " Xserver is already active on display" message in the var log sesman log.

Other errors I suspect produce the same nonsense, someone reported when the vnc server and client couldn't agree on a geometry, the same error occurred.

This is probably the solution to all the load order issues and which vnc server (real or tight) package you use.

quoting:
I have solved it by installing xfonts-base

This also solved my problem.

set static IP from command line gui Armbian / Debian 7 Orange Pi Zero 512

Recently I acquired a couple of OrangePi Zero 512's, with a network phy, and dual usb.  The latter is not terribly useful because w/o modification to physically drive in more +5 there isn't much 5 v to spare on either port of this board.  It is powered by a USB OTG micro port, which at most will draw 2.1A.

The armbian comes up with the root password set to "1234" and a script to force changing the password at first login.  One can log in to either the serial port (presented on the OTG as a USB serial), you may wire in a serial port, or ssh into the unit once you find it.

The latter is a bit of a problem, however.  For whatever reason the current armbian is set up to assign a random crap MAC address to the board.  There is no retention of a MAC in any storage, so that isn't a huge problem.  However, the MAC must be being set early enough that there isn't any of the static storage of the root available, so no static address.

Against my desire and policy here, I decided to set a static IP to the board, which skirts the need for a static MAC.  I usually like to have everything DHCP so I can change any device by the dhcp server, but static IP will work to get round this.

to set the IP, one has to edit the ip with the network manager.  the network manager may be edited with the nmgui command.  Edit the ip from automatic to manual, and set up the IP.

The only caveat that needs to be recalled is that there is no netmask.  The gui uses the format of
192.168.0.1/24 or such to set the netmask.  Kind of against command line and file standards, but that took some hunting for when the setup failed for me a few times.  And there is no netmask prompt.

One can either reboot the system, or restart the network manager.  Seems like on a systemd type system this does that task

sudo service network-manager restart

********* on the topic of armbian  ****

this method didn't work for the orangepi to change the configuration.  Should work on some form of debian, but somewhere else must be some network code setup on armbian that ignores the settings in the /etc/networking directory configuration files.  Has no effect at all.

https://kuziel.nz/notes/2017/01/orange-pi-zero-armbian-setup.html