DietPi

Hello, I did a fresh install on a rpi4 and the very first thing I did was moving the rootFS to the external drive. After the reboot all logins fail with incorrect password. I tried root and dietpi and also used the default password, but the system still won't log me in. Is there anything I can do no...

Hey again, it took some time but I was able to resolve my issues. It seems that it was indeed an issue with the power supply of the external 2.5 drive, even when using an active USB hub. I then replaced the drive with an external 3.5 drive and didn't have any issues so far, even with high load. Ther...

The system is working without keyboard now, even remote access is working again. I have no clue why it did not work last time when running headless. I added the powered usb hub because the data in my external drive gets corrupted when the drive has to copy and write big data. Sadly the usb hub doesn...

Just got the HDMI cable. When I add the usb hub to the rpi and add the hdd to the hub the rpi shows those messages: vc_vchi_sm_init: failed to open VCHI service (-1) [vc_sm_connected_init]: failed to initialize shared memory service The hdd is powered and I can hear i clicking when rebboting the rpi...

There is of course a sd card inserted.

Hello Joulinar,

not yet, just tried the USB 3 port so far. The system also won't boot when no HDD is attached. I have no micro HDMI cable etm so I ordered one and will take a look at the shell as soon as it arrives..

Hello,

I am using a RPI4 with an external HDD. There were some power issues so I decided to add a powered USB hub between the rpi and the HDD. To my surprise the system won't boot when the hub is used. Do I need to do a fresh install when adding an USB hub?

Hello, I wanted to install WireGuard as a service using 'systemctl enable wg-quick@wg0'. Afterwards I started dietpi-services because I wanted to control it by dietpi. Adding the service there failed because wg-quick@wg0 was not found as service. Then I found a folder called 'wg-quick@', so I tried ...

With active cooling you definitely should get better results than 70°C. I am using passive cooling only and when I do a stress test I will reach 65°C after 20 minutes. With 70°C the cpu should already be throttled.

Hello, atm I am running pi-hole which installs Lighttpd. Now dietpi won‘t let me install nginx using the interface. I am wondering if I should install pi-hole using the interface like I did and install nginx manually or would you install nginx using the interface and install pi-hole manually? I woul...