Problems with updating Beaglebone Black via "opkg install"

padswap · September 13, 2013, 3:53pm

Hi,
During updating my Beaglebone Black via “opkg update” I got some error
messages(added to the end). I found out that those urls, where my
Beaglebone wanted to download from, are not reachable.
So I am not allowed to show the Beaglebones filesystem via smb-network on my PC, because I can not install the “samba” package.

Is there another way to get the samba package or to show the beagle’s filesystem on my PC(I need that for Netbeans)?

Thans much
L.K.

opkg_conf_parse_file: /etc/opkg/angstrom-base.conf:2: Ignoring invalid line: `base’
opkg_download: Failed to download http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv7a//Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/base/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/machine/beaglebone/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/debug/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/gstreamer/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/all/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/perl/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/python/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

Yves_Grignon · September 13, 2013, 6:19pm

Hi,
I install Samba on Angstrom on my BBB by simply doing:
opkg update
opkg install samba
I then configured it and have been using it ever since to backup my PC onto USB memory sticks plugged into the BBB and shared via samba. Was it opkg update or upgrade that you did?
Yves

padswap · September 14, 2013, 2:49pm

Yeah, that was the way I tried, but I found out that the pages where my BBB wanted to update from are not reachable. So I can not install samba too.
Do you know another way to update my BBB or to install samba? Or is there another way to share the Beagle’s filesystem to my PC?
Luca

Yves_Grignon · September 14, 2013, 5:41pm

As far as I remember, when I did opkg update, it updated the list of available packages and there were no errors. After doing the update, it found the samba package and installed it. I got the kind of errors that you are having only when I tried to do opkg upgrade… and it broke some things. I am now reinstalling linux using narcissus to build my own rootfs (console only) and it offers me to include samba in the package. So samba for the BBB is there somewhere. Try going to http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/
Yves

padswap · September 15, 2013, 3:20pm

Yes that is true. There is…no there should be samba package. Here is the page where you can download the different samba packages( http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=samba ) . For BBB, the package “samba 3.5.6-r1 for armv7a” is needed. But the download to this package is not reachable, when I click the link.
That is why I think there is no problem with the BBB. The Problem is that the download pages for my samba package are offline since at least 3 or 4 months, I think.

Luca

Ryan · May 28, 2014, 6:44pm

I am having the same issue with mine at the moment. For me however, I am able to reach the links it provides when it displays
the collected errors. But I do want to know why the opkg_download failed.

opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/base/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/machine/beaglebone/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/debug/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/gstreamer/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/all/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/perl/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
opkg_download: Failed to download http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/python/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

I can connect to the links it provides, but I want to know why they aren’t downloadable from the PuTTY. I am wondering if there is just a bad connection remaining between the BBB and my PC (Windows 7).

I am still very new with the BBB, and learning more about it as I am interning. My main project while I work here circles around the use of the BBB, I just seem to be
butting heads with it lately. I’d love to get some feedback about how I should go about fixing it. I am trying to fix it in order to create a web server through the BBB if that helps any in figuring out the issue.

Thanks,
Ryan

padswap · May 28, 2014, 8:27pm

Hi,
you have to connect your BBB directly to the internet via the ethernet connector on the BBB. That was my fault…I only connect it over usb to control with command line and I got the same errors.
So be sure that your BBB is connected to the internet.(I think tethering over usb is not possible)
Maybe this might solve your problem…

Regards

Ryan · June 9, 2014, 7:08pm

Thanks! I got it now, but now I have new problems haha