Thanks so much for the fast response! I'm helping my coworker out, so I had to ask him which images he used.
But I did a bit of research and confirmed your comments back, and it all makes perfect sense now. =) We were using the "BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img" image, which, as you pointed as, is a console release. Thanks for clarifying this - I totally understand and appreciate the need for a lightweight image, so I didn't mean to suggest these things *should* be added to the console release. Same goes for wireless-tools. With the above image, I confirmed the lack of sbin and wrong date on boot up, no biggie. I tried syncing the time, but I got command not found and didn't find it in sbin, but installing some version of ntp seems to resolve that. As for the issue we faced with DNS issues and issues updating the repo, it was the exact same issue in this post - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/ubuntu/DjFqxreT1AA At the time, I had to hard code the IP for the missing repos (I think it was also the ports.ubuntu repo) and it worked. But I just tested this on a fresh flash and wasn't able to recreate the issue, so in my test case, everything worked great. I'll dig a bit more on this but I think this may have been a weird "freak" occurrence. Thanks again for your response and help, now back to my BBB! Have a good one, Robert On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 5:48:23 PM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:33 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > I have been working the BBB Rev B and C for over a year, and I've been > using > > the Debian images provided by eLinux and Beagleboard, available from - > > > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Releases > > > > and http://beagleboard.org/latest-images > > > > In the most recent builds from 2015-11-03, I've been having a lot of > trouble > > with missing system tools and packages. > > Some examples include - > > Please include the file name, there's dozen images... > > > - wrong date and time set due to ntp service not being installed, > installing > > ntp resolves this issue > > wheezy: ntpdate > jessie: systemd-timesync > > > - inability to connect using supported wifi adapter due to missing > > wireless-tools package > > your using the "console" image... > > > - missing DNS support which causes apt-get to fail as it is unable to > > correctly resolve the IP addresses for the rcn.ee repos included in the > > builds > > okay, this is od.. > > > > - missing /sbin directory in PATH, including missing ifconfig command, > > adding /sbin to path resolves these issues > > yeap, this is the "console" image, can't fix this as patch isn't > installed.. > > > Did I miss some announcement or release notes about these releases that > says > > they are lighter than previous builds? > > > > Why didn't I have most of these issues with previous builds? > > IIRC, all the builds I used before included ntp, /sbin in the PATH, and > DNS > > support, and wireless worked OOTB (after editing > /etc/network/interfaces) > > Based on that, it sounds like your using the "console" over the > "lxde/lxqt" image. The goal with the "console" image was to be as > small but yet "flash" the eMMC.. Not everyone likes to "apt-get > remove xyz" instead they want something very small, and wireless tools > are not on that requirement list.. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
