I am setting up my first SatNOGS station using a Raspberry Pi 4. I am at the point of applying my configuration, I only set up the basic settings and browsed through the advanced settings to see what I will need to look out for. I am going to be using an RTL-SDR BLOG V3 ultimately hooking that to an LNA to an M2 SATPACK1. I am adding screen shots of the failure and the Error LOG.
I am getting an error: localhost failed msg: Failed to update apt cach: unknown reason
And so I do not know what to do… It looks as if my jpeg will not work on here…
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
Thank you
-Jeff
Hello Mark,
Thanks for the reply. I have to admit this is the first experience I have had with raspberry pi, Linux, even CLI (so I basically jumped in without learning how to swim). I am following the Satnogs wiki client setup instructions. Are there two ways of setting this up one standard and one sudo? Or did I miss a step? Would you be able to point me in the right direction? Or provide some advice? Thank you for reaching out!!
Jeff
I’m also a fairly new user to satnogs but I do have the advantage of a lot of experience with Linux
I believe the instructions say to use sudo, (for reference sudo instructs the command to be run with root permissions, think running as administrator to liken it to using Windows)
Thank you Mark. That is the same set of instructions I am following. I completed the “sudo apt update” then” sudo apt upgrade” I got the error then completed the “sudo apt purge needrestart” and didn’t get the error so I assumed that would have set everything up to move on I entered all of the basic config info then hit “Apply” and tried 4 times still failed. So something is missing…?? Should I or could I do a complete reset and start over? Or is it still salvageable from where i’m at?
Jeff
I have to say I must not have included the sudo because I just typed sudo in front of the commands following the instructions in the client setup. How or where do I find “sudo” ?
Jeff
I was able to fix this issue after clearing what’s inside sources.list.d/ansible.list
using sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ansible.list
And then hitting Apply again
Well I tried clearing out what was inside sources.list.d/ansible.list it was empty black screen with Alt commands across the bottom. I then performed a sudo apt update then a sudo apt upgrade which ran well rebooted with a new Kernal. Went back into satnogs-setup then hit apply seems like it went further then failed again. See screen shot for details… Thank you…
Jeff
I can see you are running that as the user satnogs, did you create that user in /home ?
That will probably create a bunch of problems, it is supposed to be created and maintained by ansible.
Create a user for yourself, or just the classic pi user instead.
SA2KNG,
Thanks for bringing that up. I have been trying to figure out how to change that. Doesn’t that go all the way to the initial flashing of the raspberry pi SD card? I cant seem to figure it out.
