Hi all,
I’ve spent many hours installing and debugging NCP on Armbian on an Odroid HC4, but in the end I cannot get NCP or Nextcloud to run correctly. I’m gratefull for any pointers and help.
Output of nc-info:
Zusammenfassung
Running nc-info
Gathering information...
/usr/local/bin/ncp-diag: Zeile 70: -1: Teilstring-Ausdruck < 0.
/usr/local/bin/ncp-diag: Zeile 70: -1: Teilstring-Ausdruck < 0.
NextCloudPi version v1.18.0
distribution Armbian 21.02.0-trunk.8 Buster \l
automount yes
USB devices none
datadir (doesnt exist)
rootfs usage 6,3G/225G
swapfile /mnt/swap/swapfile
dbdir /var/lib/mysql
Nextcloud check ok
Nextcloud version 20.0.2.2
HTTPD service up
PHP service up
MariaDB service up
Redis service up
Postfix service up
internet check ok
port check 80 closed
port check 443 closed
IP 192.168.178.50
gateway 192.168.178.1
interface eth0
certificates none
NAT loopback no
uptime 2:03
You should run Lets Encrypt for trusted encrypted access
You should open your ports for Lets Encrypt and external access
Done.
Things I did:
Install Armbian Buster (kernel 5.9, image from december 4th for Odroid HC4) on a btrfs partition
Install NCP via Softy (armbian-config), which is equivalent to curl.
Fix several issues (dphys-swapfile, haveged and redis-server were all not running, but I managed to get them to run eventually)
Tried to move datadir to HDD /mnt/datadir (from a former NC install)
Reinstalled NCP directly via curl (official command from website)
Issues:
The curl-installed version of NCP is 1.18, not 1.32.
ncp-update does not complete, error: “There are no commands defined in the “config:system” namespace.”
Moving data dir to existing dir didn’t work, now it says there is no data dir at all. After reinstalling via curl the command nc-datadir fails with error: “There are no commands defined in the “config:system” namespace.”, so I cannot fix this currently.
Warning: NCP has the “_” character pre-filled in password form fields of nc-admin and nc-passwd. You have to actively remove it, otherwise your passwords won’t be correct.
edit:
what worked in the end // my solution:
0. clean install of armbian
this comes with zram enabled by default which was source of the problem (either use that or setup a swap partition if you want)
# curl installer
sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile
# curl installer again
ncp-config → CONFIG → nc-init
ncp-config → UPDATES → nc-update
ncp-config → CONFIG → nc-webui
ncp-config → CONFIG → nc-trusted-domains
ncp-config → NETWORKING → nc-trusted-proxies
I also set up the admin using ncp-config and ncc but could’ve probably done all that from the webui
sudo necrobump /thread
Hi,
I have some very similar issues with an armbian softy install: the swap file not setup properly, several ncp scripts missing, etc. Tried following the proposed solution to no avail.
NextCloudPi version
distribution Armbian 21.05.6 Buster \l
automount no
USB devices none
datadir /var/www/nextcloud/data
data in SD yes
data filesystem btrfs
data disk usage 6.5G/112G
rootfs usage 6.5G/112G
swapfile /dev/zram0
dbdir /var/lib/mysql
Nextcloud check ok
Nextcloud version 20.0.8.1
HTTPD service up
PHP service up
MariaDB service up
Redis service up
Postfix service up
internet check ok
port check 80 open
port check 443 open
IP my.ncp.instance.ip
gateway my.gate.way.ip
interface eth0
certificates none
NAT loopback no
uptime 11min
A lot of the tui entries show “No description” and when I run some of them nothing happens. It seems that a lot of the ncp apps/scripts are missing. eg:
example: ncp-config version missing, no description on some things
NextCloudPi configuration ver.
┌────────────────────────────┤ NextCloudPi Configuration Tool (ncp-config) ├────────────────────────────┐
│ Select ncp-app to configure or activate: │
│ │
│ nc-automount Automount USB drives by plugging them in │
│ nc-hdd-monitor Monitor HDD health automatically │
│ nc-hdd-test Check HDD health │
│ nc-info Print NextCloudPi system info │
│ * nc-ramlogs mount logs in RAM to prevent SD degradation (faster, consumes more RAM) │
│ * nc-swapfile No description. │
│ nc-wifi No description. │
│ nc-zram No description. │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ <Select> <Back> │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
running trusted domains from tui returns
cat: /usr/local/etc/ncp-version: No such file or directory
Running nc-trusted-domains
Done. Press any key...
I’ve seen some other weird things during nc-init for instance:
cp: cannot stat '/var/www/ncp-app': No such file or directory
...
cp: cannot stat '/var/www/ncp-previewgenerator': No such file or directory
