<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>GNUcode.me</title><id>https://gnucode.me/feeds/tags/pinephone postmarketOS.xml</id><subtitle>Tag: pinephone postmarketOS</subtitle><updated>2024-05-01T13:21:27Z</updated><link href="https://gnucode.me/feeds/tags/pinephone postmarketOS.xml" rel="self" /><link href="https://gnucode.me" /><entry><title>Upgrading the PinePhone</title><id>https://gnucode.me/upgrading-the-pinephone.html</id><author><name>Joshua Branson</name><email>jbranso@dismail.de</email></author><updated>2023-02-04T18:00:00Z</updated><link href="https://gnucode.me/upgrading-the-pinephone.html" rel="alternate" /><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So I have been running this to upgrade the pinephone for a while now:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# apk upgrade
# apk update

# apk upgrade
# apk update&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, when I rebooted I got a message that said that my pinephone’s version was
no longer supported.  I should &lt;a href=&quot;https://postmarketos.org/upgrade&quot;&gt;upgrade&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I figured that I will probably do this again, so I might as well write down the
steps for how to do the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before I really get started in this, I want to get set up in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC&quot;&gt;matrix chat
room.&lt;/a&gt; I used the web based interface for the matrix chat. It had me create an
online account, and verify my email address, then I could talk in the matrix
channel. That was easy, moving onto the next step.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First install &lt;code&gt;postmarketos-release-upgrade&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# apk add postmarketos-release-upgrade&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next I want to create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Backup_and_restore_your_data&quot;&gt;backup&lt;/a&gt;, of the pinephone incase the upgrade fails or
breaks the phone and I have to install postmarketOS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, in the pinephone’s terminal, start the sshd daemon:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo service sshd start&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;So possibly the best way to upgrade your pinephone is to connect the phone to
your laptop/desktop via a usb cord and enable &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/USB_Internet#Linux&quot;&gt;usb internet.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently after you connect the phone to your host machine, you should be able
to run:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ssh user@172.16.42.1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;That didn’t work.  And it is quickly looking to me like the usb internet upgrade
option is NOT going to work.  Or rather, it will work, but it will take me a lot
of time to get it to work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So instead of using the usb internet upgrade option, I will try connecting the
pinephone to the internet via an ethernet cord (I personally disabled the wifi
on the phone to try to save power). Then I will make a backup of the pinephone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, now that I have my phinephone connected to an ethernet port, I used my
laptop to ssh into the pinephone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I found my pinephone’s ip address via running this on the pinephone’s terminal:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ip a&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so the looking at eth0:  the pinephone’s ip address is:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SOME.IP.Address.04&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, I can now ssh into the phone via:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;ssh user@SOME.IP.Address.04&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since I have ssh-agent set up, lets set up ssh key login:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ssh-copy-id user@SOME.IP.ADDRESS.04&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now let’s create a backup on my host comptuter (laptop):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;mkdir ~/postmarket-os-backup
rsync -avz --exclude=.cache user@SOME.IP.ADDRESS.04:/home/user/ .

fish: Unknown command: rsync
fish:
rsync --server --sender -vlogDtprze.iLsfxCIvu . /home/user/
^
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(231) [Receiver=3.2.7]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well that seems like a weird problem.  Let’s go join the fish irc channel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well the channel is here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#fish&lt;/code&gt; at irc.oftc.net&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can find out how to connect via going to oftc.net.  They ever have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://webchat.oftc.net/&quot;&gt;webchat&lt;/a&gt;.
That makes it easy.  Just put in a goofy nickname and you are in the chat room!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It took the fish people a while to respond, so I also asked in the &lt;code&gt;#guix&lt;/code&gt;
channel, while I was waiting. A guix user said that I should try this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;guix shell --network -C coreutils rsync openssh-sans-x&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then run my rsync command.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That didn’t work, but then the &lt;code&gt;#fish&lt;/code&gt; people just asked me if I have rsync
installed on my pinephone…I didn’t realize I needed it installed on both
devices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So let’s do that on the pinephone: &lt;code&gt;sudo apk add rsync&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let’s try this again.  On my laptop I ran this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rsync -avz --exclude=.cache user@SOME.IP.ADDRESS.04:/home/user/ ~/postmarket-os-backup&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok that worked!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Upgrade_to_a_newer_postmarketOS_release&quot;&gt;postmarketOS wiki&lt;/a&gt; recommends that I use tmux or screen to update the
pinephone, in case the ssh connection breaks. Well I believe that I have tried
updating the pinephone before using just an ssh connection, and the ssh
connection dropped. I did not know if they phone was done updating or if it had
just died. So I forcefully shut off the device, and it failed to boot. Fun
times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well let’s go ask in the postmarketOS irc channel or &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Community&quot;&gt;matrix&lt;/a&gt; and ask about using
tmux or screen. How does it make sure that the ssh connection does not break? I
can also check out the archlinux wiki. Also it seems as if tmux is more user
friendly, so I will check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tmux&quot;&gt;tmux&lt;/a&gt; page to learn more about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well let’s go ahead and install tmux on my laptop: &lt;code&gt;guix install tmux&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let’s try to run an ssh connection on the pinephone via tmux.  I think this
is how you do it:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tmux
ssh user@&amp;lt;IP address of the pinephone&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well I asked in the postmarketOS irc channel why they reccommend using tmux in
case the ssh connection drops, and this is the answer that I got:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you use tmux, you can just restore your tmux session if the ssh connection drops
and the command will still be running in there&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;run tmux
then if the connection drops
tmux list-sessions
and then
tmux attach-session
I think&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then if the ssh connection gets dropped, I can open up a new terminal and do
this &lt;code&gt;tmux attach&lt;/code&gt;, and I will be right back where I was. This &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ0yDCVu44E&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; explains
that.  That is pretty awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here &lt;a href=&quot;https://mutelight.org/practical-tmux&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2&quot;&gt;tmux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://man.archlinux.org/man/tmux.1&quot;&gt;resources.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, I ran the following to update the pinephone:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tmux
ssh user@&amp;lt;my Pinephone IP address&amp;gt;
postmarketos-release-upgrade&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since, my phinephone had an ethernet connection, the upgrade process was over
inside 5 minutes, and the phone rebooted itself. Nice work postmarketos
developers!&lt;/p&gt;</content></entry></feed>