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Raspbian Stretch has arrived for Raspberry Pi

It’s now just under two years since we released the Jessie version of Raspbian. Those of you who know that Debian run their releases on a two-year cycle will therefore have been wondering when we might be releasing the next version, codenamed Stretch. Well, wonder no longer – Raspbian Stretch is available for download today!

Disney Pixar Toy Story Raspbian Stretch Raspberry Pi

Debian releases are named after characters from Disney Pixar’s Toy Story trilogy. In case, like me, you were wondering: Stretch is a purple octopus from Toy Story 3. Hi, Stretch!

The differences between Jessie and Stretch are mostly under-the-hood optimisations, and you really shouldn’t notice any differences in day-to-day use of the desktop and applications. (If you’re really interested, the technical details are in the Debian release notes here.)

However, we’ve made a few small changes to our image that are worth mentioning.

New versions of applications

Version 3.0.1 of Sonic Pi is included – this includes a lot of new functionality in terms of input/output. See the Sonic Pi release notes for more details of exactly what has changed.

Raspbian Stretch Raspberry Pi

The Chromium web browser has been updated to version 60, the most recent stable release. This offers improved memory usage and more efficient code, so you may notice it running slightly faster than before. The visual appearance has also been changed very slightly.

Raspbian Stretch Raspberry Pi

Bluetooth audio

In Jessie, we used PulseAudio to provide support for audio over Bluetooth, but integrating this with the ALSA architecture used for other audio sources was clumsy. For Stretch, we are using the bluez-alsa package to make Bluetooth audio work with ALSA itself. PulseAudio is therefore no longer installed by default, and the volume plugin on the taskbar will no longer start and stop PulseAudio. From a user point of view, everything should still work exactly as before – the only change is that if you still wish to use PulseAudio for some other reason, you will need to install it yourself.

Better handling of other usernames

The default user account in Raspbian has always been called ‘pi’, and a lot of the desktop applications assume that this is the current user. This has been changed for Stretch, so now applications like Raspberry Pi Configuration no longer assume this to be the case. This means, for example, that the option to automatically log in as the ‘pi’ user will now automatically log in with the name of the current user instead.

One other change is how sudo is handled. By default, the ‘pi’ user is set up with passwordless sudo access. We are no longer assuming this to be the case, so now desktop applications which require sudo access will prompt for the password rather than simply failing to work if a user without passwordless sudo uses them.

Scratch 2 Sense HAT extension

In the last Jessie release, we added the offline version of Scratch 2. While Scratch 2 itself hasn’t changed for this release, we have added a new extension to allow the Sense HAT to be used with Scratch 2. Look under ‘More Blocks’ and choose ‘Add an Extension’ to load the extension.

This works with either a physical Sense HAT or with the Sense HAT emulator. If a Sense HAT is connected, the extension will control that in preference to the emulator.

Raspbian Stretch Raspberry Pi

Fix for Broadpwn exploit

A couple of months ago, a vulnerability was discovered in the firmware of the BCM43xx wireless chipset which is used on Pi 3 and Pi Zero W; this potentially allows an attacker to take over the chip and execute code on it. The Stretch release includes a patch that addresses this vulnerability.

There is also the usual set of minor bug fixes and UI improvements – I’ll leave you to spot those!

How to get Raspbian Stretch

As this is a major version upgrade, we recommend using a clean image; these are available from the Downloads page on our site as usual.

Upgrading an existing Jessie image is possible, but is not guaranteed to work in every circumstance. If you wish to try upgrading a Jessie image to Stretch, we strongly recommend taking a backup first – we can accept no responsibility for loss of data from a failed update.

To upgrade, first modify the files /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list. In both files, change every occurrence of the word ‘jessie’ to ‘stretch’. (Both files will require sudo to edit.)

Then open a terminal window and execute

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

Answer ‘yes’ to any prompts. There may also be a point at which the install pauses while a page of information is shown on the screen – hold the ‘space’ key to scroll through all of this and then hit ‘q’ to continue.

Finally, if you are not using PulseAudio for anything other than Bluetooth audio, remove it from the image by entering

sudo apt-get -y purge "pulseaudio*"

Updates

Since the release, we’ve had a few small issues reported. Here’s an update on them:

There is a bug in the Raspberry Pi Configuration window which means the “Set Keyboard…” button on the Localisation tab doesn’t work.
There is an intermittent bug in the interaction between the RealVNC server application and the desktop – you might find that the taskbar sometimes vanishes when booting if the VNC server is enabled. This is intermittent, so rebooting a few times may help. If not, to get the taskbar to display, hit Ctrl-Alt-T to display a terminal window, and in the terminal enter lxpanel -p LXDE-pi; you’ll need to leave that terminal open while running.
There is a bug in the hardware video acceleration for the Chromium browser, which is causing crashes on some videos and animations.

Fixes for these three bugs are now available for download – to get them, do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Some users have also noticed that the Chinese and Japanese fonts are missing, resulting in garbled text when the locale is changed. This is due to a font package which was present in Jessie but not included in Stretch. A suitable alternative is the Droid fonts package – to install it, do:

sudo apt-get install fonts-droid-fallback

362 comments

Great news

Thanks

Congratulations guys! Looking forward to having a play around with this.

Hi, thanks for doing this great release. Are you planning to update the version for PCs too in some time ahead?

Yes, the PC version should be out in a few weeks.

Hi Simon, just wondering if Raspbian Stretch is included with the Noobs package or do you have to download it as a standalone. Thanks.

Stretch is included in NOOBS as the default Raspbian version.

Awesome! So close to getting the Rust compiler and its libraries installable with apt (it doesn’t seem to build for armhf at the moment…)

Finally! I am looking for this since… Stretch. Todays and tomorrows work schedule decided then!

Great work Simon!

I assume this is still 32bit?

Yes, still 32-bit. (64-bit is never going to work on earlier Pis.)

You could let NOOBS detect the CPU or you could let the user choose the 64 bit version from the NOOBS installation menu.

That would only help with people who use NOOBS – it’s more common nowadays for people to just use Etcher to flash the Raspbian image; it’s faster and has a smaller download.

You are rigth, but you could add a 64-bit version so users could choose. Now I am stuck with the “football field sized” Pin64 to play with 64-bit assambly.

Hello,
It’s not really optimal to still not get a arm64 version: ARM 64 bit instruction set is better than 32 bit. It’s probably the one that’ll remain in a few years as, for an architecture supposed to be energy efficient, ARM was not so clean at it’s core: 2 to 3 instruction sets for 32bits versions with usual 32 bits fixed size set, variable size Thumb one… and maybe even Jazelle.
When Jessie arrived, Raspberry was not selling arm64 PI versions thus we could understand sticking to arm32.
By now, it’s no more the case & a maybe a flaw for competitors.
BR.

As above – we are not about to orphan Pi 1 and Pi 0, and managing multiple versions of the OS is a headache and will lead to numerous user issues, from people trying to run the 64-bit version on early platforms. The 64-bit ARM instruction set is indeed better than the 32-bit version, but the gains in performance are comparatively small and not, at present, worth the extra work and support burden.

For the needs of the vast majority of our users, a single 32-bit version of Raspbian is the best compromise.

Well, as said on another part of the thread, there’s already 2 kernel images supported. So I think you already have the CI test suite able to handle several ones.
So only mainline support for the SoC/peripherals may be a problem but that’s supposed to be almost 32/64bit agnostic.
Maybe a nice option would be to allow apt-getting a 64bit kernel able to run a 32bit applicative/rootfs for those eager to use it?
BR.

A 64-bit version of Raspbian would be a big help to uses of TensorFlow.
TensorFlow is a 64-bit app. Installing it on 32-bit Raspbian is awkward and extremely time consuming. A 64-bit version of Raspbian would fix this.

TensorFlow is now the software of choice for running object recognition deep learning networks on a Raspberry Pi 3. There are no backward compatibility issues here. TensorFlow will only run on the Pi 3 and Pi 2 model B.

The rapid advancement of robotics and AI applications requires that we have a 64-bit version of Raspbian as soon as possible.

Also, MongoDB since 3.4 does not support 32bit, but only 64bit.

((Shiver)) When I upgraded to Jessie, “normal service” didn’t resume for at least 6 months. Experiment with your least important Raspberry Pi, and only upgrade the others if it works ok for a while.

…which is exactly why we recommended above either starting with a clean Stretch image, or backing up before you upgrade. We can’t predict what changes people will have made to their systems which may be incompatible with Stretch.

That’s why I wish they would keep the previous version available for download for awhile in parallel with the new version. Sometimes you just need “we’ve already shaken the sawdust out.”

All previous versions are still available from http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/

I’m using stretch on an old laptop and I’m super happy with it! It’s quite a bit lighter on resources .. can’t wait to get it on a Pi3!

Just out of interest, assuming NOOBS now includes Stretch, why is there only a small change to the version number?

The NOOBS version number is the version of NOOBS itself, which is an installer package for a whole bunch of OSes; its version number doesn’t reflect the versions of the OSes it installs.

Many thanks.

I’ve just installed on a clean card and everything works great until I do my initial raspi-config changes and reboot. Now my menubar/start menu at the top of the screen is gone. I’ve done nothing but connect a bluetooth keyboard, connect to wifi, and then in raspi-config I changed the hostname, password, enabled ssh, vnc, and i2c, and made localization changes. Done two clean installs and same problem!

It would help narrow down what is going on if you could try making those changes one or two at a time and see which one it is which causes the problem. While it obviously isn’t possible to test every single configuration before release, from memory I have personally tested ssh, vnc, i2c, wifi connection and password changes on the Stretch image, and they all worked fine, so it looks as if it may be something about your BT keyboard or something in the localisation which is causing the problem. If you can narrow it down a bit more, I can try to repeat it here.

A quick play suggests that enabling VNC and SSH simultaneously causes the problem you have seen – no idea why as yet. Could you please try doing everything as before but only enabling one or the other and see if that fixes the problem?

Working through it step by step now. So far I’ve done SSH, reboot, VNC, reboot, I2C, reboot. All is good so far. Going to do the localization then do the keyboard so I can change password and join wifi.

I have now updated country (canada), reboot, timezone (Canada-eastern), reboot, and then connected my bluetooth keyboard and rebooted and all is good. Changed the user password and rebooted. On this boot I lost the menu bar. The only different thing that happened is that the VNC anonymous usage prompt popped up.

Now this is strange.

I think it is VNC or VNC and my keyboard (standard Apple bluetooth keyboard). Fresh installation. Setup keyboard and connected to Wifi. Reboot. Activated VNC reboot. Menubar flickers and flashes and disappears and I get the VNC anonymous stats prompt. I’m going to do this one more time and do SSH first so that I can then login from another computer and disable VNC after the bar disappears and see if it will come back.

I think it’s something in VNC; it doesn’t fail every time for me, but the one thing that seems to make it fail more often than not is having VNC enabled. Thanks for reporting it and for the investigation – I’ll see if I can track something down which makes it fail repeatably every time, and then work with RealVNC to see what the problem is.

One thing which seems to help is removing the System Tray plugin from the taskbar – that makes sense, as I think that’s the only way VNC interacts with it.

Thanks Simon. See my post below for more details. It’s got to be something with VNC and changed password! Very strange!

I think it’s some sort of race condition in VNC; I can see the problem with enabling VNC as the only change, but it’s not regularly repeatable. (I did test VNC before release and didn’t see this then.)

Try removing the System Tray plugin from the taskbar – that seems to stop the crash.

So a little bit further exploration found that RealVNC has an updated version at 6.2 (6.1.1 is currently installed). Not sure if that would fix it as I haven’t tried. I’m trying to figure out how to remove the task bar icon and not finding the option. Do you have any tips on how to remove it?

Sure – right-click the taskbar, choose “Add/remove Panel Items”, scroll down the list to find “System Tray” and click the “Remove” button. This seems to improve matters slightly, but I’ve still seen some crashes with the tray removed.

So I updated RealVNC to 6.2 and the behavior remains. It works when the password is “raspberry” but no menu bar when the password is anything else. Same with removing the system tray icon. If I change it back to raspberry, menu bar shows up. Change it to anything else, no system bar. Guess I’ll just work with the default password for the day.

Thanks for all your help!

I’m still seeing the problem occasionally with the default password – although that is after changing it to something else and changing it back; why that should make a difference I have no idea, but this bug seems a bit strange in all respects… I’ve reported it to RealVNC – we’ll work with them to find out what is going on and get a fix into apt as soon as we can. Many thanks for all the investigative work!

Hi, I’m also having this problem with VNC. It is now working with no changed password and system tray removed but I am finding the VNC performance is noticeably worse than before. The screen lag is pretty bad. I did also notice that apart from Stretch installing an already out of date version of RealVNC, their own website says that it supports only Wheezy and Raspian (I realise that might just be because the change has just happened).
I also had a wildly flickering screen followed by totally white screen even after a couple of restarts after password change and VNC enabling. I have not been able to recreate this so far.

Getting stranger. Fresh install. Connected Bluetooth keyboard and joined Wifi. Reboot. Activated SSH. Reboot. Disconnected and removed keyboard. Reboot. Activated VNC. Reboot. Got the anonymous usage prompt, all is good. Changed User Password. Reboot. No menu bar. SSH from other computer, disabled VNC. Reboot. Menu bar returns. Changed password back to default “raspberry” and enable VNC. reboot. Menu bar continues. Change password again. Menu bar flashes and disappears. I’ve tried a couple different passwords. If VNC is enabled, the password must be raspberry to get a menu bar. With VNC disabled, the menubar is just fine with a different password. Also, even with the default password, when VNC is installed, the menu bar sort of flashes of flickers before stabilizing and appearing or disappearing. Also, when it flashes, its just a gray bar with no icons.

So, for now I guess I’ll either disable VNC or use it on my local network with the default password.

Very strange!

I don’t think the problem is password related. I left my password as the default ‘raspberry’ and I still get the problem on my Pi 2.

I enabled ssh and vnc, set the timezone to Canada/Eastern, WIFI country to Canada, locale to en/CA but the Keyboard couldn’t be set with the GUI. I used raspi-config to set it to 104 key US default layout. I set the resolution to 1920×1080@60Hz and installed a WIFI driver for the Realtek 8818E dongle.

Sometimes when I boot the menu bar is functional and other times it flashes and disappears.

It isn’t password related – it’s a race condition in the taskbar buttons which is sometimes triggered by the time it takes VNC to start. We have a fix; it’s being tested at the moment and it should be available for download in the next few days.

i noticed the other day when i went to disable vnc (already disabled) in raspi-config it said “vnc is now enabled” so either the message is wrong or the logic is wrong.

I have the same problem, but having VNC & SSH enabled at the same time doesn’t trigger the problem for me. The menu bar flickers and disappears when the resolution is set to 1280×720 after a reboot, and won’t come back even if you adjust the resolution back to something different. Tried a fresh install on two different microSD cards, same problem. Also, changing the keyboard layout in raspi-config does not work. It just says “Reloading key map…” and returns to the main menu without ever asking for the new layout. The GUI raspi-config does nothing when you click the button.

Also happens with other resolutions, no idea what causes it. Makes the system borderline useless. Going back to Raspbian Jessie until that issue is fixed.

When you say “also happens with other resolutions”, are you referring to the VNC problem, or an issue with setting resolutions in general? Setting resolution will make no difference to the VNC issue; the problem is to do with starting the server itself. Setting resolutions for a local user from Raspberry Pi Configuration works fine for me.

Yay, downloaded, flashed and posting this with Stretch on my Pi3 :)

Can I get the Scratch 2 Sense Hat extension without updating to Stretch?

Yes – “sudo apt-get update” followed by “sudo apt-get install scratch2” should work on Jessie.

Thanks, but it only shows the gpio extension. I re downloaded and reinstalled and still the same. Unless I’m doing something wrong.

Nice to see that Bluetooth stack is still making progress!
Is there somewhere more information available what benefits the switch form pulseaudio to bluez-alsa gives us?

Functionally, it should make no difference. The reason for the change is that the integration of PulseAudio complicated a lot of the software; it also caused problems for people who wanted to use PulseAudio for purposes other than accessing Bluetooth.

Great work and was not expecting this prior to September.

Look and feel the same as Raspbian Jessie with Desktop which is welcome.

Bluetooth Alsa is something to test out in the coming days, as are all the updated packages.

RPF/RPT just keep giving, WoW !!

Looking forward to see if python scapy now captures ARP packets again..used to work on Jessie but then past April releases stopped..so will download stretch and try again..

Nice to see the new update..

Hi, thanks for updating Raspbian!

Is Wayland part of the upgrade ?

No, as we have explained before, work on using the desktop with Wayland has been shelved indefinitely.

Hi,
I just read some of your answers i’ve missed on previous blog post, about Wayland.
I understand it’s not a priority, or it might not be relevant for now.
I won’t bother you again with that.

cheers

Awesome news about the Broadpwn fix – will this be patching in Jessie as well please? I have a few projects running raspbian lite I can’t risk a distro upgrade on. Thanks!

Yes, the new firmware is available for Jessie – just do a sudo apt-get update / sudo apt-get dist-upgrade without changing anything in the apt configuration files.

Thank you :) I have a few ‘IoT’ projects that I wanted to make sure were not vulnerable, being able to do it without changing the sdcards is good. Mostly because they are about 12 foot off the ground and a little hard to access. :)

Ta,
Richard.

Awesome, thank you!

Good news. I won’t upgrade my existing projects but I’ll be using this image for all future experiments and projects. Love the octopus.

My Pi 2 with pixel desktop I use as Alexa, upgraded and reboot said system upgraded, my Pi 2 pixel desktop I use as a desktop didn’t say upgraded after reboot, neither did my Pi 0 W, pixel desktop and used as a audio dsp with Jack-Rack and Jack server, why? Thanks

Does the BROADPWN issue affect the official RPi USB wifi adapter that uses a 43143 chip?
(Forum post asks same question)

Is the vulnerability fix for the BCM43xx wireless chipset available for Jessie?

Ta :)

Yes – see my reply to the same question above! “sudo apt-get update” followed by “sudo apt-get upgrade” will apply it to a Jessie image.

Does the fix for the BCM43xx wireless impact the operation of scapy?
I just tried it on stretch and it only got the ARP for the router and the machine it
was running on..it did not detect the dash device attaching to the network.

thank you very much for Raspbian Stretch!!!
will “Raspberry Pi for Desktop x86” also going to get Stretch as “base” soon?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/

Yes, we are currently working on the x86 image; we’d hope to have it available in a few weeks time.

So …
How long are these weeks?
Maybe an experimental build?

Looking forward to this update for Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 … Is there any ETA ? Thanks

Before Christmas…

I’ve had the same problem with enabling vnc. The toolbar in the desktop disappears.
I’m going to try leaving VNC disabled and install uvnc instead
Also, Eth0 has disappeared im getting enxb827eb702cf8 with an IP addy attached to it. Getting round it by configuring a static ip from my router fro now

Did someone got working gstreamer-omx working on Stretch? I got neighter Parole, Totem, gst123 to work. Only working player is omxplayer. Is in Rasbian some player able to play video in window?

when i change locale to : Language:zh
Country:CN(China)
Character:UTF-8
set Timezone: Area:Asia
Location:Harbin

after reboot ,display Garbled

You need to install an appropriate Chinese font.

i use 2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie image,
it work after i set Locale
do not need install an Chinese font.

There are fonts installed in the Jessie image which are not included in the Stretch image – you will need to add whichever one is used as the Chinese system font to your Stretch install.

after install font
it is OK
thank you

I’ve booked for first timer it wants user and pass and pi and raspberry don’t work.

Tried again (rebaked the SD card). I get the usual boot then am greeted with raspberry pi login, to which I type pi, hit enter, and then raspberry and hit enter again.

Incorrect login.

Please help.

Exactly what image are you installing? The full Raspbian image does not require a password on boot – ignore the text boot prompt that you see on first boot and just wait for it to complete startup. Raspbian Lite does require a login, but I’ve just checked the downloaded image, and “pi” and “raspberry” work fine.

RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP
2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch.zip

I’ll try again now, redoing the SD card again.

Something is not right with my attempts to wipe my SD Card, even though I am getting success wipe and write messages from pi-baker and etcher. Please ignore my posts above!

Try using a more powerful PSU or a less power-hungry (simpler) keyboard. There’s been issues reported in the past where weak power supplies and hungry keyboards could lead to typed letters missing, or typed letters unintentionally repeaaaaaaaaaaaating ;-)

try
raspberrypi login: pi
Password: raspberrz

this image has an english keyboard layout with sitched y and z ;)

If you are seeing z and y switched, you are probably loading a German QWERTZ layout rather than an English QWERTY one. Or potentially you have set up a QWERTZ layout in NOOBS to work with a QWERTZ keyboard, but for some reason the setting has not been transferred to the image. It is usually more reliable to set the keyboard layout inside Raspbian itself, with either raspi-config or the desktop Raspberry Pi Configuration tool.

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease Unable to find expected entry ‘staging/binary-armhf/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Make sure you have done “sudo apt-get update”, and if you have, just keep trying. The load balancers can sometimes take a while to sync on the first day of a release.

Removing ‘staging’ from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list should fix it.

Ha, I’m sure you guys must wait until I’ve rewrote the 20 SD cards for Huddersfield Jam and then release an updated version :D

Ah well, back to generating a new image and rewriting :)

BETTER HANDLING OF OTHER USERNAMES

This is really a good news.
I always had to rename “pi” to the same username as other machines running Debian on my network (my username since 20 years)
Doing so was blocking piclone and raspi-config (GUI only)
So good news for me
Thanks Simon carry on this good work

Glad to hear it! Do make sure you add the new username to the sudoers group, or piclone and the raspi-config GUI will still fail.

Where is Kodi 17.3? It was in jessie, now there is just 17.1 :(

You will need to wait some days for it to be available on Stretch.

With a new image, apt-get update & upgrade done, it would not install php

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php5-mysql : Depends: libmysqlclient18 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Neither php5-mysql nor libmysqlclient18 are included in Debian Stretch; they are both Jessie-only, as is php5 itself. It looks as if Stretch supports php7.0 rather than php5, so you’d need to install that instead.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#mariadb-replaces-mysql

I have the menu bar disappearing problem also.

When I set the localisations, I get to keyboard and nothing happens when I click it. (time zone only thing I set)

Reboot and no menu bar.

Debian moved to mariadb

Eth0 now seems to have a very long name in addition to any wireless usb device plugged in..is there a way to get eth0 back? Also at this point
I should probably post questions to the forum..so what forum should
I use for stretch?

Yes use the forum, see this post:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=191030

A follow up to what Drew Fulton and I have posted regarding the disappearing menu bar….

I have tried several times using different order of things and the one thing that is constant for me is trying to set my keyboard.

When I click the “Set keyboard…” button, the cursor hour glasses for 20 seconds or so but nothing else happens. Then I reboot and when I get the desktop back, the menu bar flashes a few times and disappears.

OK, that’s a bug – it’s a side-effect of changing things so that sudo is handled properly in Raspberry Pi Configuration. I’ve got a fix for it which we will push to apt in the next few days, but there is a workaround for now. Instead of accessing the “Set Keyboard…” button from Raspberry Pi Configuration, access it from the “Keyboard Layout” button on the ‘Keyboard’ tab in Mouse and Keyboard Settings; it will work properly from there.

Apologies for the inconvenience – we’ll get the fix out asap.

Well you can forget anything I have posted. I cannot find anything reproduceable to make my menu bar disappear.

The only constant is that it does disappear when I reboot while setting things up every time.

“I cannot find anything reproduceable to make my menu bar disappear.

The only constant is that it does disappear when I reboot while setting things up every time.”

Same here.

Hello Simon,

On “Set Keybord” nothing happens on my system (fresh written Stretch Image), panels are unchanged. Additional I’m a little bit astonished that
I get only “de (Austrian German)” while using rc_gui to set the language.
For keybord setting I used raspi-config – and that worked fine.

But thank you very much for der Stretch Release
have a nice weekend
Harald

You need to do a “sudo apt-get update” followed by “sudo apt-get upgrade” to apply the bug fix to the keyboard settings.

As for de being captioned “Austrian German”, that comes straight from the Debian Stretch language files – no idea why they changed that!

I’m using synaptic. I went into the settings and replaced ‘jessie’ with ‘stretch’.

Lots of new stuff that I didn’t get with apt-get. One thing I didn’t see in Stretch is an upgrade to Network Manager, which I prefer.

Did the checksum get upgraded to a sha256sum…I seem to recall sha1 on Jessie? Good move…a GPG key should be on tap at some point.

GPG key is already available.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberrypi_downloads.gpg.key
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-08-17/2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch.zip.sig

Getting some problems with apt install..
When installing some software like mariadb-server-10.1, it gives several errors and i must reboot it manually cause it can’t respond to more commands.
Im using console only.
The fix: clean and remove folder and even then, if problem comes again i have to reboot it manually… its a very big problem.
No software installed before this. Only raspi-config basic stuff…

Hi…done the update tonight for my old install of Raspbian on my Pi 3 and most things are working ok –

Kodi disappeared and after I reinstalled it using Synaptic (previous 17.3, now 17.1) it is very sluggish with very high CPU usage (near 100%) – any ideas what this could be?

Unfortunately my Mythtv-light install currently relies on Jessie repositories/packages so it disappeared, too.

However, Firefox and Chromium are much improved – great work – keep the updates coming!

I updated from Retropie 4.2 and everything worked fine, except for Kodi that became terrible with 17.1, really slow.
I did a fresh install and the taskbar just disappear after booting. I did some research and some trials with no success, but than got the error related with xscreensaver that wasnt on the system. Installed it and it seems to be ok now.I dont really know if its it or any dependency related to the package.
Kodi is still very slow to be used. Any chance to get newer version or improve performance?

There is a Stretch-compatible version of Kodi on the way…

Goodbye Jessie. It’s been a great run!

Looks like the sha1sums on the download page are wrong.

Stretch Lite zipfile summs to e38adcc620c8f4118388d09a51d5cd8e9699bc44

Ah, didn’t spot that someone has moved to sha256sum.

Thanks for the CLI syntax to upgrade.

re Disappearing menu bar…

Had time to fool with it some more and verified Drew Fulton is correct as to it being an issue with VNC. However, I don’t find any relationship with the password.

Basically, all seems good until second reboot then menu disappears. Disable VNC, reboot and all is well again. Enable VNC again and all is well until second reboot then the menu disappears again.

Yes, it’s definitely a VNC issue – it’s being investigated by both RealVNC and ourselves; we’ll hopefully have a fix soon.

I just upgraded with ZERO issues! Thank you!

I downloaded the image and proceeded to configure.

Using the (default) GUI Raspberry Pi Configuration worked for most of the settings, but failed to even respond to the “Set Keyboard” button.

I booted to Command line, and set using rasspi-config.

My apologies – there’s a bug in the way the “Set Keyboard” button works – I’ve got a fix which should go out today. In the meantime, you can access the same settings box from the Keyboard tab of the Mouse and Keyboard Settings application; just hit the “Keyboard Layout” button.

That’s great!
How’s the javascript performance? HTML5 / Canvas?

Thanks for this release.
I tried to download the Stretch Lite root partition from https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/root.tar.xz and I am still getting the Jessie version.
I also tried https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/archive/2017-08-17-09:08/root.tar.xz with the same result.
Is it planned to update these links with the Stretch Lite version ? Thanks

The /archive links contain the previous release, which would be Jessie. Looking at the first link (latest), I am getting Stretch, as expected.

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2017-08-17/

I’m going to wait a while before I try the new Stretch.
But as far as the RealVNC issue, I personally never liked it, as it looks too crummy. I much prefer the tightvncserver. It looks like it ought to.

So, my question is, has anyone installed tightvncserver with Stretch, and does that still work?

Thanks
Jerry

When I try to download a package from the non-free repository, like libttspico-utils, I get an error saying that it has no installation candidate.

It seems like when I run sudo apt-get update, it’s not downloading as much as it should. It only downloads data from two URLs, but in Jessie it downloaded from around 10 (including one for the non-free repo).

I am on a Raspberry Pi Zero W using a 16G SD card, with CUPS/gutenprint, Samba file sharing, Plex server, Transmission, and AirPlay (using Shareport/alsa-base, but want to try out rplay for TV mirroring).

Using the “upgrade” instructions, during the `sudo apt-get -y update-dist` command I get the following error about 30 minutes in:

Get:1723 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ stretch/main xserver-xorg-legacy armhf 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u1+rpi1 [2,067 kB]
Fetched 1,010 MB in 24min 51s (677 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/libn/libnamespace-clean-perl/libnamespace-clean-perl_0.27-1_all.deb 400 Bad request [IP: 2610:10:20:208::20 80]

It suggests running `apt-get update`, so I did as sudo, and tried a second time using `–fix-missing`, and get this error:

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/ trusty/main armhf Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_webupd8team_java_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_binary-armhf_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/ trusty/main armhf Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_webupd8team_java_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_binary-armhf_Packages)

Next edited out the extra lines spitting out errors in /etc/apt/sources.list,I ran `sudo apt-get -y upgrade-dist –fix-missing` and I get the ‘confirmation page’ you mention that describes unstable packages this time (protip: Shift+ZZ will get you past the spacebar scrolling and ‘q’ in the vim editor).

It took overnight, and there were several .conf files it stops to ask if you want to overwrite (I chose ‘Y’ on each to get the new files), and the final output was:

Errors were encountered while processing:
raspberrypi-ui-mods
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I then ran `sudo apt-get -y upgrade`,
then `sudo apt-get -y update` once again,
then finally `sudo reboot`

Takeaways:
* I followed the instructions to replace instances of ‘jessie’ with ‘stretch’ but there were 9 rows and 4 duplicate lines in /etc/apt/sources.list which threw the errors, and I suspect why it took so long for the `upgrade-dist`.
* Despite it taking so long, based on the output / logs, I am confident that all of my installed packages were also upgraded to work with the new distribution.

This is a great article, thank you! Also, I am not writing this as a complaint, but my experience while following the instructions given so that it may help anyone who wants to go the `upgrade-dist` path.

Cheers!

I’ve just downloaded the NOOBS 2.4.3 Zip file, and when I run my Pi, the only option to install is Librelec, not Raspbian! Does anyone else see this?

Gotta brag a little ;) :
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX8B2wXgEBv/?taken-by=mtaylor769

Great work people! Thanks!

install of latest raspbian lite on Pi 0 W
no wireless

errors in syslog :
raspberrypi dhcpcd[262]: wlan0: ctrl_interface not defined in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

wired ethernet works

I have the same problem, tryied with different configurations and couldnt get tinto wire again. Was working fine on jessie but going back to it didnt fix it. Have you found a solution?

Where are eth0 and wlan0? It seems they are renamed to some weird names:
pi@rraspberry:~ $ dmesg |grep renamed
[ 4.884578] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 enxb827ebd00d33: renamed from eth0
[ 5.515973] r8712u 1-1.4:1.0 wlx0008d380a115: renamed from wlan0

So, obviously iwconfig wlan0 won’t work

Can we undo this renaming?

Is it 64-bit?

so – googled some more, found https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37920/how-do-i-set-up-networking-wifi-static-ip-address

short version – add the following two lines to the beginning of wpa_supplicant.conf, (along with your wifi config…) :
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

put that in the boot directory along with “ssh” file and it boots and connects like Jessie versions did.

No – 64-bit code will not run on Pi 0 or Pi 1, and we don’t at this stage want to support multiple images.

For kernels, you already have a 32 bit v6 for PI0/1 and a 32/v7 for PI2/3. Thus having a 64 bit for PI3 looks reasonable as another alternative.
If the problem is on the applicative (or even rootfs) side, it’s just a kernel compile option to be able to run 32 bits applicative software for a smooth transition. I suppose mainline support for the chip is now OK.
Really, why selling A53 based boards but sticking to 32 bits on SW support side, 2 years after design?
Difficult to understand, but tell me if I missed something!
BR

The problem is not that it is technically difficult to produce a 64-bit version of Raspbian. The problem is that doing so would entail maintaining two separate releases, the 32-bit version for Pi 0 and Pi 1 devices, and the 64-bit version for Pi 2 and Pi 3 devices. This is both a large amount of extra effort for us, as maintaining two separate versions of the OS doubles our build times, doubles our release testing burden, complicates bug reporting, requires us to track two separate code lines etc; and complicates matters for the majority of our users who don’t particularly care whether they are running 32-bit or 64-bit code, and who will then need to be supported in deciding which version to download and helped when they download the wrong one!

All that cost provides very little benefit to most users – there is no need to access huge quantities of RAM on Pi, as the boards only hold 1GB anyway, and the speed benefits from 64-bit code are comparatively small in many cases. The very small number of Pi users who actually need a 64-bit OS ought to be capable of finding one themselves without help from us.

We will not be forking our Raspbian releases into 32-bit and 64-bit versions in the foreseeable future.

Would someone from Raspberry please confirm that the 2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch.zip download file, when extracted has the following two files contained within the img file having the listed sha1 hash values? I know the parent download file hash, but I would like confirmation of the two partition images that get deployed. SHA1 hashes generated follow:

Directory of c:\Users\PCUSER\Downloads\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch

08/18/17 02:32 PM .
08/18/17 02:32 PM ..
08/18/17 02:31 PM 43,838,976 0.fat
08/18/17 02:31 PM 4,859,441,152 1.img
2 File(s) 4,903,280,128 bytes
2 Dir(s) 566,261,178,368 bytes free

c:\Users\PCUSER\Downloads\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch>certutil -hashfile 0.fat
SHA1 hash of file 0.fat:
b7dfbc2911e215e180a0b661546a0492f4e582f5
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.

c:\Users\PCUSER\Downloads\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch\2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch>certutil -hashfile 1.img
SHA1 hash of file 1.img:
6cfb4c46f71e92329115afe17dc0711ca6e9704d
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.

If the hash of the zip file is correct, there is really no need to check the individual hashes of the enclosed files. Hacking the contents of the zip and then managing to replace its original hash is as near to impossible as makes no odds.

I dunno how you’ve got two files? When I open 2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch.zip I just get a single file named 2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch.img
Maybe you need to try using a different unzip program? Or you could just use Etcher, which doesn’t require the zipfile to be manually uncompressed first.

Downloaded it yesterday from torrent but haven’t gotten around to installing it yet. I’ve already uploaded equivalent of 12 copies of it through the torrent and it looks like ppl are flocking to it. I like to wait 2 or 3 days to install a fresh OS after it’s released to allow for bad bugs to get caught.

I just installed Stretch and the Python 2, Python 3, and Thonny IDEs will not launch. I started by erasing my existing 32GB SD card and installed using NOOBS.

Looking forward to getting this to work, but I’m unsure what I’ve missed.

Help Please

I suspect you just have a bad flash – try installing the Raspbian image to your card using Etcher.

Simon,

Thank you. Echer and image file work great. NOOBs has never been a problem and I was unaware that an alternative was available.

I use the Raspberry Pi for learning and teaching Python and Linux. This puts everything back in order.

Thank you

Yet still, Raspbian Stretch is shipped with IPv6 turned off :( Do you realize it’s mid-2017?

I’m getting the “Aw, Snap!” error on Chromium whenever I open a HTML5 video enabled website such as Vimeo. Reloading the page doesn’t help. Standard Raspbian configuration, with GPU memory increased to 128 MB. In the next days I’ll do some more tests. Can anyone reproduce this behavior?

http://blog.szynalski.com/ this site does it EVERY time even with javascript and images blocked, and doesn’t seem to have any videos, and it doesn’t snap on youtube for me, so I doubt it is related to video.
Had it snap on something like reuters too but plain reload helped.

Yep, same here.

Yep, same problem here. I posted in the forums, but nothing has come of it yet.

YouTube or Facebook = “Aw, Snap!” error

We extensively tested YouTube before release, and had no problems. Might be worth reinstalling Chromium.

Yes I have the same problem. Chromium seems to “Snap” when it opens up an embedded Utube video. I cannot view your Blog section on Chromium because of this. As a work around I’m using the Epiphany browser.

YouTube and Facebook load fine for me on a clean Stretch image – several people on the forums are reporting this problem, but it seems they have all updated from a Jessie image. Try a clean Stretch image and see if the problem goes away.

I’ve done that. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to find any pattern or condition to simulate the error. An interesting fact is that just after the clean install the error seemed to be gone, but a few hours later, aw snap! The problem was back. The only thing I managed to find was the signal received by the chromium window.
Received signal 7 000076b6a672

Perhaps is it related to this?
https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=11909

Hello – Tried removing and reinstalling chromium-browser, but still have the same problem.

All the best
Jeff

And my operating system came from a clean stretch image !!!

All the best
Jeff

Raspbian should get update that old MAC naming system (unstable) is used, instead of current (stable) MAC naming system on Debian 9.1, whitelisting or simply just turned off by default?

Other than networking, seems much stable than Jessie.

hello
thanks for your post, i tried to update via command line, and its done correctly

Good news! Just updated Pi 3 from latest jessie and encountered some problems. It seemed that everything is okay but after rebooting Wifi can’t work normally, I can connect to my wlan but from the router I can see that the raspi cannot get an ip(showing 0.0.0.0), nor connect to the internet. Besides, ‘ifconfig wlan0’ only shows an ipv6 address, have no idea why.

Just changed WiFi Country code from CN to GB and it works! Still have no clue why.

A couple of issues:

I couldn’t install motion on stretch. missing dependencies.

I couldn’t assign a static ip address that worked regardless of which pi I used.

Hello,

how much longer will Jessie be supported with bug fixes and most of all security updates?
Is there a need to switch to Stretch soon?

We won’t be releasing further Jessie images. The creators of Raspbian (which is not Raspberry Pi ourselves) will probably continue to pull patches and security updates from Debian and upload them to apt for the foreseeable future, but to be honest, unless you have a very good reason for not upgrading to Stretch, using the new version is probably the right thing to do if you want all the latest patches.

Having spent yesterday fixing a failed Windows 10 upgrade – It killed Microsoft Edge – and having to step back to the previous version. I decided to try to upgrade a copy of Jessie (8Gb) to Stretch (16Gb) as the thought reinstalling all the software for the many HATs I have collected and transferring my sketches to the correct folders would be a massive task. It all went perfectly.
It’s well worth giving this a method a go if your setup is standard but large.

Well done and thank you, Simon.

Looking forward to the Stretch PC image for my old laptop.

Nota bene if your Raspberry Pi GPIO Peripheral base detection fails:

In my code (rpi-rgb-led-matrix), I had some crude Raspberry Pi detection that attempts to figure out what kind of Pi (1 vs. newer) something is by looking at the /proc/cmdline and looking for mem_size. The memory memory used to be 0x3F000000 for Pi2/3, with this stretch update it is set to 0x40000000, so this threw off the detection.

I’ve fixed that now ( https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix/commit/9c1f6bbc1fa756459cf21ca32cc95db849d6dbe5 ), but I should probably replace this code with a more robust way.

* It might probably make sense to put this in the Update section in case someone else has similar bad Pi detection like I do.
* Is there a better, more robust and canonical way to do the BCM2708 vs. BCM2709 detection ?

You should be using https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/revision-codes/README.md

In raspi-config what is default of these on a Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian Stretch:
G1 GL (Full KMS) OpenGL desktop driver with full KMS G2 GL (Fake KMS) OpenGL desktop driver with fake KMS G3 Legacy Original non-GL desktop driver

It is rather the Legacy option.

Blazing fast Chromium!
Thanks

Had a play with Scratch2 and the SenseHAT today. It seems rather buggy with respect to reading the HAT sensors. I created a simple program to read roll and pitch and set variables to the values. It works until I save and load the program again. Then the custom blocks to read roll and pitch are not working anymore. I have to remove them and put them back into the Scratch program for them to start reading the sensor values again.

Also when I try to save my project it offers the file extension .sbx
When I try to load my project again this file extension is not showing in the file open dialog. I have to rename it to .sb for it to be possible to open again in Scratch2.

I’ve just had a quick play, and both seem to be related to reloading a saved project – the first time you save a project, it saves correctly as an sb2 file, but if you reopen it, it saves as an sbx when saved a second time. It looks as if there is a flag somewhere in the editor which is being set to indicate that a project that is reopened is treated as an extension (given that this code was originally designed for editing extensions) rather than a project. There will be a fairly trivial fix for it, but it’ll have to wait for a couple of weeks, as I’m taking some time off now the release is done!

I have discovered another issue with a real SenseHAT. If I do ‘say “string”‘ before ‘scroll message’ then ‘say’ doesn’t work. See example program in a picture:
http://i.cubeupload.com/ftZ4Oe.png

I didn’t have the issue with ‘roll’, ‘pitch’, ‘yaw’ not working after reload, but I have the “Save Project” issue, and have to rename from sbx to sb2 manually. ‘yaw’ is a bit strange for me, because it goes over from 180 to -180 directly after start. It would be easier if yaw was around 0 at start. It seems yaw is absolute and not relative to position at start with ‘green flag’. Maybe the compass is involved or it is set at start of Pi and not at ‘green flag’. Maybe this is normal for SenseHAT.

It would be good if you could make the Raspberry Pi extensions as normal ScratchX extensions also, because then you can store them on GitHub and it’s easy for people to run the projects by just clicking a link in Chromium, if they are online.

Maybe you could also expose the CPU temperature in an extension.

Another issue is that ‘scroll message’ can’t display Swedish and Danish characters i.e. “ÅåÄäÖöÜüÉéÆæØø”.

No, it won’t do – but I don’t think the Python extensions for it did either.

I do have the issue with ‘roll’, ‘pitch’, ‘yaw’ not working after reload when I use the Sense HAT Emulator, but not with the real Sense HAT. ‘temperature’, ‘pressure’, ‘humidity’ works with both real and emulator.

Ah – that’s a known bug in the emulator. Roll, pitch and yaw just don’t work, full stop. It’s been raised with the authors of the emulator, but they haven’t as yet provided a fix.

Hello,

I just installed Stretch with a fresh image install, then upgarded all the packages, then installed Kodi 17.3 through the terminal. Kodi on Stretch runs extremely slow and the CPU is maxed out. On Jessie Kodi ran extremely smooth. Any idea as to why this is?

GPU Memory is set to 208 and I have rebooted a few times.

Problems with clonezilla ?

—
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install clonezilla
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti… Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato… Fatto
Alcuni pacchetti non possono essere installati. Questo può voler dire
che è stata richiesta una situazione impossibile oppure, se si sta
usando una distribuzione in sviluppo, che alcuni pacchetti richiesti
non sono ancora stati creati o sono stati rimossi da Incoming.
Le seguenti informazioni possono aiutare a risolvere la situazione:

I seguenti pacchetti hanno dipendenze non soddisfatte:
clonezilla : Dipende: drbl ma non sta per essere installato
E: Impossibile correggere i problemi, ci sono pacchetti danneggiati bloccati.
—

Thanks !

I installed Raspbian Lite using NOOBS and when I tried installing Xfce, I had no Internet.

Hello, I successfully performed this upgrade on my RasPi 3 and entered ‘Y’ in all the prompts. After reboot, I had to set my desktop wallpaper again and I could not ‘sudo apt-get update’ due to a bad signature. I found these commands helpful to correct the problem:

sudo apt-get clean
cd /var/lib/apt
sudo mv lists lists.old
sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

Cheers!

UPDATE: Turns out, I also needed to remove the “autostatic” audio repository that I had added previously (not your fault!). Everything else seems to be working so far.

Got this very odd problem: wlan0 interface is no longer available on my raspberry pi zero w after installing raspbian stretch; was working ok on jessie and going back to it won’t fix it.

Bluetooth is still working fine. Any pointers?

Did you upgrade or install from a clean image? If you upgraded, did you also update raspi.list?

Installed from a clean image. Tried both scratch lite and desktop, also updated all packages and ran rpi-update, no change.

See this thread: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37920/how-do-i-set-up-networking-wifi-static-ip-address

Stretch introduces predictable network interface names which have been used in other distributions for some time.

Network interfaces will have names formed from a prefix en — Ethernet or wl — wlan followed by x indicating MAC and the MAC e.g. enxb827eb123456 or wlx00c140123456. The onboard WiFi of the Pi3 and PIZeroW which is connected over sdio will however use the name wlan0

This can be beneficial to those using multiple network interfaces, however for most Pi users, with a single Ethernet and WiFi interface will make little difference. The previous names eth0 and wlan0 can be restored if you pass net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line in /boot/cmdline.txt

Is stretch on noobs?

Yes.

Just upgrading from Jessie to Stretch, keep getting these errors at various stages in the install

Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <– HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <– HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72.
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <– HERE in m/\${ <– HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 30.

They’re nothing to worry about – just ignore them!

I burned a new Stretch and installed xrdp.

When I use it natively, I can use Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration. When I use xrdp, it just times out. So I ran the properties from a terminal, this is the result:

pi@rasperry:~ $ env SUDO_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/pwdrcg.sh sudo -A rc_gui
No protocol specified

(rc_gui:1084): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :10.0
pi@rasperry:~ $

At a guess – and it is just a guess – whatever user xrdp appears at is not in the list of sudoers; unless a user has sudo permissions (with or without requiring a password), rc_gui will not launch.

I ran

su – root
#xhost +

Success! :-)

I also found that using the xrdp Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration > Shutdown or Reboot, it does nothing.

When I run reboot from a terminal:

pi@raspberry:~ $ reboot
Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Interactive authentication required.
Failed to reboot system via logind: Interactive authentication required.
Failed to open /dev/initctl: Permission denied
Failed to talk to init daemon.
pi@raspberry:~ $

When I sudo reboot it works as advertised.

This is different from Jessie – since I have to connect my monitor/mouse directly to the Pi to reboot…:-(

After the update to stretch chromium does no longer play mp4 files, especialy videos. If I try to load them the site crashes (“Oh nein!” -Error) Had no problems with that on Jessie? Only the omxplayer works on that files.

same here

now with a new user i can’t get the history of my command when i click the up or down keys in the keyboard, i just get some random write

forget to say that with a new user it only show the “$” symbole and nothing else rather than “user@raspberrypi” and doesn’t show on which folder am i like “user@raspberrypi:~/Documents $” unless i type “ls”…and finaly the wifi seem to work with “pi” user but not on others :(

You need to set up the shell configuration for the new user properly in order to add the command history and the prompt. The relevant file is called .bashrc – copy the one from /home/pi/ to your new user’s home directory as a starting point.

tried that but it’s not working :(

I cannot compile SDL2.0.5 and Qt5.9 on RPI3 with Raspbian Stretch Lite. Neither of them properly detects EGL, OpenGL ES 2.0 or EGLFS support anymore. They were compiling fine on Jessie Lite

The names of the graphics libraries have changed to match the standard names, rather than being the previous names which were specific to the Broadcom hardware – the problem is likely to be that you are building against the old Broadcom-specific library names.

I experienced the same problems compiling quake3 and quake1 on raspbian Stretch. Kodi doesn’t start either using OpenGL ES.

I think it is the other way around. As far as I see in /opt/vc folder the library names are all with “brcm” in their name like “libbrcmEGL.so”, “libbrcmGLESv2.so” instead of the standard names “libEGL”, libGLESv2″ etc. And SDL2 and Qt is expecting standard library names.

How can this be fixed, is it possible to make some kind of deviation or can the standard names be added somewhere, so that the OpenGL ES drivers can be used again? Especially for compilers and programs that where written for older distributions.

As the mesa arm side GL driver is going to become the standard in the future, we’d like to avoid confusion when linking with either the arm side driver (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf) or the gpu driver (/opt/vc/lib).

As such applications built to use the gpu driver should now link with libbrcmEGL.so/libbrcmGLESv2.so rather than the ambiguous libEGL.so/libGLESv2.so libs.

If you are running an app that doesn’t link with the new names then:
cp /opt/vc/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so
cp /opt/vc/lib/libbrcmEGL.so /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
should get you running until they do.

I have tried your copy suggestion. I also tried using symlinks, which was my initial attempt at a workaround. However, using sudo ldconfig didn’t result in an updated cache in either case. I have no idea what I have missed.

Solution?: This morning (on a whim) I ran rpi-update. This caused the missing libraries to re-appear in /opt/vc/lib. The picam application which relies on libGLESv2.so and libEGL.so now works under stretch.

Thank you your solution! Worked for me. So far…

I am building MythTV for Raspberry Pi and it will only work if I do the rpi-update. Before that it was giving Invalid Operation response to many OpenGL ES calls even when correctly linked to the new library names. After the rpi-update it is fine. I will be instructing users to run the rpi-update. Will the fixes be included in the next release so that rpi-update is not needed?

rpi-update updates kernel and firmware – we always include the latest versions of kernel and firmware in every release, so yes, rpi-update shouldn’t be needed after the next release.

Copy & Paste now work with XRDP!

I use XRDP almost exclusively to connect to Pi’s with no Monitor or keyboard.

Copy and paste hasn’t worked until now.

I set up XRDP by uninstalling realvnc-vnc-server (it usually conflict with XRDP) and then install XRDP such as:
sudo apt-get purge realvnc-vnc-server
sudo apt-get install xrdp

Nice to have copy/paste!

I reinstalled my jessie install, and decided to upgrade it since, I had no Internet on my Raspbian Lite install and things went downhill. I had no wallpaper, icons were missing and dpkg was spitting out errors like: dpkg: could not set up this (this being the name of the program) (–configure) and stuff like that.

That asterisk should be quoted in that apt purge pulsaeudio command.
e.g.:

sudo apt-get -y purge “pulseaudio*”

If the user happens to have files in their working directory with a name beginning with ‘pulseaudio’, the shell will substitute those filenames and the command will no longer do what was intended.

It seems that there is no flashplayer-plugin (package: flashplugin-nonfree) for Stretch, witch causes the video problems with chromium. Will there, or is there, a solution for this problem? Is it somehow possible to install the jessie-package?
thanx

Flash works in Chromium in Raspbian Stretch since the projects on https://scratch.mit.edu/ work, and those use Flash, e.g. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/153790703/

I got the message that the flash-plugin is outdated, if I visit that website (https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/153790703/) if I choose “activate this plugin” nothing happens. So it does not work on the stretch chromium version for me.

Make sure you have the most recent rpi-chromium-mods package installed; that includes the latest release of the PepperFlash plugin. It also includes a small change to fix the “this plugin is outdated” message, which is incorrect anyway…

“Aw, Snap!” in Chromium 60.0.3112.89 (Developer Build) Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Raspbian 9.1 (32-bit) when I scroll up and down using the mouse wheel on this page https://twitter.com/hashtag/Physicist?src=hash

See picture: http://i.cubeupload.com/jEvtIM.png

I have disabled all extensions except h264ify 1.0.6 and uBlock Origin 1.13.8.

I’m having a problem with dist-upgrade.

“””
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch InRelease [15.0 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org stretch InRelease [25.3 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/main armhf Packages [11.7 MB]
Get:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.org stretch/main armhf Packages [90.8 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.raspberrypi.org stretch/ui armhf Packages [26.9 kB]
Get:6 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/contrib armhf Packages [56.8 kB]
Get:7 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/non-free armhf Packages [95.2 kB]
Get:8 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/rpi armhf Packages [1,360 B]
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/main Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/rpi Translation-en_GB
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org stretch/rpi Translation-en
Fetched 12.0 MB in 15s (751 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease Unable to find expected entry ‘staging/binary-armhf/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
“””
Any ideas would be welcome.

Remove ‘staging’ from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list.

Thanks, that did the trick. Took some time appears to be working properly.

I’ve had to remove ‘staging’ like others have.
What is staging, why was it there and why do we now not need it ?
(took me a while to find the solution to that one, it’s not in the main text)

Oh and wish me luck, i’m about to dist-upgrade

I have instaled Raspbian stretch from new clean image and youtube in chromium crashes too. Solution for me was disable h264ify plugin in chromium. Then youtube works good.

Tried disabling the plug in, but for me there is no change. Still get the “Aw, Snap” from Chromium. Now using Epiphany as a work around.

Are there anyone at Raspberry looking in to this???
All the best
Jeff

“Are there anyone at Raspberry looking in to this???”

No, we’re just all ignoring it and hoping it goes away… ;)

We’ve been investigating, we know what the problem is, and we have a fix – we are in the process of testing it before release. We’d hope to have an updated Chromium in apt in the near future.

Thanks – for your update.

All the best
Jeff

@ Simon Long

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Just updated and I noticed that the new chromium-browser was in the list. And It works. The snail pace of the Epiphany was killing me !! :-)

All the best
Jeff

How can I autostart a Scratch 2 project at power on that uses only Sense HAT? Are there command-line options to Scratch2?

I think this could be a nice demo.

It would also be good if Scratch 2 could support the SenseHat joystick.

The SenseHAT joystick maps onto the cursor keys and enter – there’s no need for it to have separate blocks; just use the standard blocks to detect keyboard keypresses.

Scratch 2 will take the name of a project .sb2 file on the command line when started, and will load that file – the executable is just called scratch2, so “scratch2 .sb2″ should work.

Great! Scratch can’t detect Enter — i.e. there is no block for Enter. The closest is Space. Maybe Enter could be remapped to Space in Scratch 2.

If you look at the key detection blocks in Scratch 2, you might find that someone has already added “enter” to them for this very purpose… ;)

I could not get Scratch 2 to load a file automatically, e.g.
‘scratch2 snake4sensehat.sb2’ doesn’t work — it only starts Scratch 2.
I have a SenseHAT demo: Snake:
https://mobluse.github.io/scratchx/

The files on that GitHub are .sbx, not .sb2 – you can’t load those from the command line. (As an aside, at present, loading of sb2 files which use the SenseHAT extension won’t work properly anyway, as the init function which is required when loading an extension does not get called when reloading a project; I’m looking into this at the moment. The GPIO extension will work fine, as its init function doesn’t do anything!)

In Raspbian i rename all sbx-files to sb2 when running with Scratch 2 for Raspbian. (I only use sbx on this GitHub-site because it’s standard for ScratchX.) I tested now with a simple Scratch 2-project that doesn’t use any extensions, but that didn’t load when I did:
$ scratch2 project.sb2

If you use extensions in Scratch 2 in Raspbian, then you can upload the projects to Scratch.MIT.edu, but the extension-blocks turn red (undefined), and you can’t share a such project until you removed all the red blocks.

Apologies – to load from the command line, you need to start electron and tell it to load scratch with the sb2 file – try “/usr/lib/electron/electron /usr/lib/scratch2/ project.sb2” – that works for me.

I’m working on the extensions issue at the moment – I know what the problem is, but finding the right place to call the init function is proving tricky…

A couple of points from recent fiddling…

You can load a project from the command line by typing “scratch2 name-of-project”, but you need to provide the full path to the project file. So “scratch2 project.sb2” won’t work, but “scratch2 /home/pi/project.sb2” will; I’ll fix this in the next release.

If you want to get a saved project which uses the SenseHAT to work properly, you need to switch to the “More Blocks” palette after loading it; this correctly initialises the extension. I’ll see if I can remove this requirement for the next version.

Starting with scratch2 filename.sb2 works now, but if you have spaces in the filename or directory it doesn’t work.

Autostart also works, see e.g. this project that uses `when timer > -1`:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/73785280/

The mouse cursor starts on the start menu with my fresh install. Jessie was doing this to me as well. Any idea about this?

Yes, it’s deliberate so that the tooltip on the menu gets shown on boot. Uninstall the point-rpi package if you don’t like it.

About bluez-alsa, any information about HSP/HSF bluetooth profiles which support audio input with built-in microphone on bluetooth devices?

No idea – we don’t currently do anything to add support for Bluetooth audio input. We might in future, but it’s not a high priority.

Oww such a huge miss of potentiality in this matter. To think of bluetooth audio input, it will be much more convenient for smart projects that involves microphone input. Really hope you guys can re-consider it as a high priority.

Unfortunately, everyone considers what would be useful to them as a high priority. Audio input really isn’t one for many Pi users.

It is entirely possible that the new bluez-alsa module will make Bluetooth audio input just work if the relevant input settings are added to the ALSA configuration file, so it might be worth starting a discussion on the forums or asking on the bluez-alsa GitHub.

I have done two different clean installs of Stretch and both times when I use the GUI to set up Raspberry Pi Configuration I can never set up the keyboard options. When I click on this option nothing happens. I must go and set up the keyboard from the terminal command. Any solutions for this problem?
PS I can change every other option with no problems, just a problem with the keyboard option.

See the section above entitled “Updates” – this bug was fixed the day after release. “sudo apt-get update” followed by “sudo apt-get upgrade” to get the fix.

Unfortunately I will have to keep using Jessie for now. I tried using Stretch, but some of the bugs are a big problem for me. Other than the soon to be fixed bugs, the only thing that I wish was different is that PIXEL would become more customizable. I noticed that you can no longer add menu caption, which is something I liked. You also use to be able to change the theme. One of the thing that made linux the best for me was how you could customize is however you wanted. I love the PIXEL OS and I want to thank you Simon for all the work you have done on the OS. It looks and preforms immensely better than it use too. I can wait until the bugs are fixed and I can upgrade.

“You also use to be able to change the theme.”

You can still change the theme – just update the relevant entry in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/desktop.conf.

You can also still have a menu caption – just add a name= line in ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel under the config options for the menu plugin.

I try very hard not to remove any configurability at all; it’s just that some config is (deliberately) not exposed through the GUI config tool.

I was trying to setup my Pi3 wifi so i would be able to connect via WAP and be connected as client when available.
I did that using the following http://imti.co/post/145442415333/raspberry-pi-3-wifi-station-ap procedure.

After that both dhcpcd.service and network.service give errors.
Dhcpcd: not running because /etc/network/interfaces defines some interfaces that will use a DHCP client or static address
network: Cannot find defice “uap0” ifup failed to bring up uap0

Is there anything changed that i need to know of to get this fixed?

Will creating a new user then replacing pi break anything if I update from Jessie? I’ve heard before that it can cause issues if I delete the default user. I’m not so worried about GUI breaks because I’m running it headless.

You’ll probably be fine, but we haven’t tested an update with a new default user, so no guarantees – make sure you take a backup first just in case!

Fresh image, I don’t see LibreOffice in the standard repo. I want to install a localisation, used to be able to do that by “sudo apt-get install libreoffice-help-xy libreoffice-l10n-xy” where xy is the country code. Will this be appearing later, and/or can I download and install from the LibreOffice website? But I don’t suppose they maintain Raspbian install files…

We just use the upstream version 5 of LibreOffice nowadays, not a Raspberry Pi specific one. All the ARM builds for the internationalisation files seem to be present and correct at http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/libr/libreoffice/

All right, and it seems the apt sources are in fact identical (except jessie->stretch) so there are no LibreOffice packages in the jessie repo either… Apparently I have been missing, or: not getting, updates for some time; do you know when this changed? I can’t easily find anything relevant on the forums. I do see very recent posts advising to reclaim sd-card space via apt-get uninstall libreoffice. Presumably that won’t work now either? Is it possible to add the libreoffice archive to sources.list? Thanks.

/etc/apt/sources.list should contain the line “deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi” – it sounds as if yours is missing that line.

No it has exactly that. But, MY APOLOGIES. I might die of embarrassment; my handy dandy “search packages in the repositories” script weeds out endless list of libraries with “grep -ve ‘^lib'” which also matches on libreoffice* ……… Sorry again.

“apt-cache search name-of-package” is your friend…

Thanks, yeah, basis of the script is of course that, but I wanted to weed out all the (often) uninteresting lib* packages. Except I didn’t think of how that would also cut all libreoffice* … Now fixed it with a negative lookahead assertion: “grep -vP ‘^lib(?!reoffice)'” meaning do NOT (-v) match anything starting with lib not followed by reoffice.

Hi, I’ve got a problem with Scratch 2 Offline. When I create a file with Scratch and then I want to modify, the only possible format is .sbx. Even if I save this project with a new name, only .sbx is proposed. Unfortunately the sbx format can not be open with Scratch 2.

Yes, that’s a known bug that only came to light in this release (although it has been in Scratch 2 ever since we first released it) – it seems that saving a new file happens as .sb2, but opening and resaving an sb2 file results in an .sbx file. I’m on holiday at the moment, but fixing this will be a priority as soon as I get back into the office – expect a fix early in September.

Ich habe euch die Änderungen und Infos in einem Artikel zu Raspian Stretch zusammengefasst.

https://raspberry.tips/raspberrypi-news/neues-raspbian-stetch-image-auf-basis-von-debian-9-wichtige-details-zu-den-aenderungen/

Hi, I’ve updated my trusty Raspberry pi 2 to stretch, and now I can’t get one of my staple scripts to work. It’s a python script that accesses an mcp3008 to monitor light and temperatures. the SPI interface says it’s on, and the script runs without any errors, but the calls to the mcp3008 are all returning 0. If I put the SD card with jessie on it back in everything works, so It’s not a programming or wiring error. Without an error I don’t know where to look. Any one have any ideas?

Just an FYI,
I was pointed toward
https://github.com/bulletmark/pifaceio/ … 785221ff21.
Which, explains the problem and I was able to fix it by adding
spi.max_speed_hz = 5000
Immediately following the spi.open

I added the following to the configuration file and get the error invalid configuration.
Zwave:
This should be a valid statement according to the docs.

I’ve just updated to Stretch and Pixel has gone. I’m back to what looks like an old version of the LX desktop. Is there a way of getting back to Pixel instead?

This was disappointing..
On the download page, there was no mention that in Raspbian Stretch Lite, the DM was missing and would need to be installed. After booting and running Raspi-config to auto boot into dm, it says to install lightdm.
After doing this, lightdm logon manager has a bug “right out of the box”..
lightdm critical “session_get_login1_session_id”
It seems to log in , then blank and goes back to login screen..infinite loop. So lightdm is worthless.

Can anyone recommend another VERY light DM to use, that plays nice with Raspbian Stretch Lite?

Raspbian Lite is intended for people who want to use the command line only and not X – which is why it is not described as “Raspbian with desktop”. It is surely therefore not entirely surprising that it doesn’t include an X display manager…

If you want to use an X desktop, download the full version of Raspbian. If you only want a CLI, download Raspbian Lite.

Does Stretch now have PHP 5.6 or 7? Or whatever the latest PHP is?
I had a few LAMP problems with Jessie and it got too coplicated to UG the PHP, so I gave up on this.

From what I have seen, Stretch no longer supports PHP5, and only has PHP7.

Has anyone else had problems with Raspbian Stretch on a DVI monitor? A normal install, from NOOBS 2.4.3 or Raspbian Lite 2.4.3, leaves my screen dark but blinking every few seconds.

None of the documented config.txt hacks (hdmi_safe=1, hdmi_force_hotplug=1, config_hdmi_boost=4, hdmi_group=2, hdmi_mode=4) makes any difference.

In desperation I ignored the documentation and the comments in config.txt and set hdmi_drive=1. This worked.

Has the default behaviour in Stretch been changed?

I did a lot of my pre-release testing with a HDMI-DVI cable from a Pi to a DVI monitor, and didn’t see any issues.

Hi,

I cannot get my w1thermsensor to work on stretch light (usb installation).
Enabling w1 in raspi-config does not make them appear under lsmod though it shows up in /boot/config.txt.
Modules w1_therm and w1_gpio only appear in lsmod when I add them into /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf.
In none of the cases above, w1 stuff appears in /sys/devices.
Notes, it is not the HW setup, as that setup works in my full jessy installation when I swap SD cards.
Any ideas are welcome.

I am having an issue installing CouchDB.
sudo apt-get install couchdb -y
This returns an error that ends with:
E: Package ‘couchdb’ has no installation candidate

Try installing “python-couchdb” – the Debian package called “couchdb” is Wheezy-only.

The latest Stretch : WiFi does not work on my Pi3 but works fine on Jessie.

Scratch 2 doesn’t remember the last folder you saved a file to. E.g. you have to navigate down do ~/Documents/Scratch\ Projects/ every time you save.

Bug: When changing LXDE icon themes from default PiX to Adwaita etc.

After rebooting:
* The bluetooth icon will disappear
* The wifi icon will display disconnected (if not using ethernet).

I suspect that is because the Bluetooth and wifi icons are only in the PiX theme – if you want to see them with a different theme, you’ll have to move the icon files into that theme.

Thanks Simon, I wasn’t thinking, should have caught that myself.

Hi. I’ve been using the `usbmount` package to auto-mount any USB drive to /dev/usb0. With Raspbian Jessie, this worked fine. However, in Raspbian Stretch it appears that the `usbmount` package no longer picks up new USB drives.

I need to use this package for a sort of slideshow-kiosk thing, where users can use *any* USB drive, load it with photos and just plug it in and have the photos automatically copied over. I can’t be relying on UUID’s or Labels or anything like that, as the people who need to operate this kiosk are not very technically-minded and lose USB drives often (so they need to be replaced).

I haven’t yet found any other good methods for always mounting USB’s to one specific location auto-magically – `usbmount` is my go-to. Do you have any idea what may have broken its functionality, and if there is another method to mount USB’s to the same location every time in Raspbian Stretch?

Thanks!

“If a Sense HAT is connected, the extension will control that in preference to the emulator.”
I would like to test the SenseHAT Emulator even though I have the real SenseHAT. Removing the SenseHAT is rather difficult. Is there a way to let the SenseHAT Emulator get the control? E.g. disabling the real SenseHAT using software.

Edit the extension – it’s in /usr/lib/scratch2/scratch_extensions/piSenseHATExtension.js. If you look in the getStatus function, there is code which tries to find a real SenseHAT and then falls back to the emulator. Just swap the order of those two bits of code.

I modified the file and got it to work the way I want it: i.e. if the Sense HAT Emulator runs when I load snake4sensehat, use the emulator, otherwise use the real Sense HAT. I have to reboot in order for this detection to work — it is not enough to restart Scratch 2.

BTW The joystick in the emulator doesn’t communicate with Scratch 2.

The LEDs of the emulator are much darker than on the real Sense HAT so I can hardly see them in the emulator, even though they can be clearly seen in reality and in Scratch2.

The joystick in the emulator has never worked properly – the buttons generate keyboard commands, and they go to the active window, which is the emulator itself rather than Scratch. The joystick maps onto the cursor and enter keys on the keyboard – just use those.

Nice. The desktop feels smoother to me, far more polished and with my own custom tweaks, looks stunning on my Pi-top laptop. I’m using this machine more and more now as it’s a joy to use for Python, Arduino and Logisim work as well as wordprocessing. Thanks for the new version of Debian.

Is there any way to change the theme to the old lxde? I’m not the biggest fan of PIXEL.

Thanks for Stretch version. Updated my present version of Jessie and it worked without problems. I’am using the Pi3 as a marine navigation system with the OpenCPN navigation software.

On board use is in combination with a 10″ touchscreen. This touchscreen worked out of the box with the Jessie versions. But with the Stretch version it no longer works. Also the screen calibration does not work. What has changed ? Is it the config setting or is a module missing ?(Egalex touchscreen).

Guys,
I don’t have time to validate the new version and all my customers applications on strech for now, would it be possible to have a link on old jessie images?
thanks

Ok, got it ;-)
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/

Slow video ??

If I run Glxgears on the Jessie version. It now runs with the latest kernel at 154 FPS.

And GLxgears with the Stretch version it is only 40 FPS.

How about this difference in performance.

I’am using OpenCPN as chartplotter software for marine use. In the Jessie Linux version it works fast with the OpenGL setting in OpenCPN to on. But as I reported before the screen movement of the Charts were slow.

Now I have switched OpenGL in OpenCPN to off and the screen movement are much faster with a lower processor load.

Why ??

Not yet tried my touchscreen on board.

Bram

Now a new version of the WD PiDrive software to load Stretch instead of Jessie onto the drive partitions would be useful….

I have a Microsoft mouse (boo/hiss) i am using with my raspberry pi 3 with the latest raspbian os and the scroll wheel is not scrolling in Chromium, I thought it use to work in previous os, is any one else having trouble with the scroll wheel or is there a place to enable it in the os or software?

Hello Simon,
some other people just mentioned that “eth0” is no longer there, if you use ifconfig in Raspbian Stretch. You get enxb827ebXXXXXX
instead. That makes my bash scripts a little bit more complicated. Well, this feature is away if you add net.ifnames=0 in /boot/cmdline.txt

But will this feature/bug be changed in future versions of stretch?
Thank you for your help

Harald

Wi-Fi dongles don’t seem to work out of the box with Stretch that worked with Jesse :( Di we need updated documentation?

iwconfig shows the network, but can’t seem to connect.

Audio does not seem to sync with video when playing Youtube videos in Chromium 60 w/h.264fy using the analog output of the Pi.

About the blocks for Sense HAT, I think you should be inspired by the official blocks for micro:bit: https://llk.github.io/microbit-extension/#blocks
They have more blocks now inside ScratchX: http://scratchx.org/?url=https://llk.github.io/microbit-extension/microbit_extension.js#scratch

It would be good if Scratch 2 programs for Microbit could run unchanged on Sense HAT. The only difference would be that you would have to use another extension. Then Raspberry Pi 3 with Sense HAT could be like a deluxe Microbit. One difference now is that Microbit have 1 based coordinates for the display, and Sense HAT, 0 based. Scratch 2 for Microbit also have blocks for acceleration.

Sorry, but we have a limited amount of development resource, and so we can only provide extensions for our own hardware, not that of other manufacturers. But I have modified Scratch 2 so that anyone who wants to write their own extensions can do so and add them with minimal effort – as long as you can write simple Javascript, they are fairly easy to create; you then just need to add the relevant information to the extensions.json file and they will appear in the chooser in Scratch 2.

I found a tutorial on how to write Scratch 2 extensions for Raspberry Pi 2-3 with Raspbian:
https://mryslab.github.io/s2-pi/

I don’t mean you should develop Scratch 2 extensions for other’s products, but that you might consider to be compatible with what exists. I mentioned one Microbit extension from Scratch.MIT.edu, and here is a picture of another from PICAXE:
https://u.cubeupload.com/EUHJcZ.png

I would highly recommend starting with a new NOOBS image and installing Stretch from that. I tried updating manually but I ran out of SD space. Also, when is Minecraft Pi getting an update?

Oddly enough I can’t get the preferences dialog to open when entering an RDP session from Windows. My workflow was:

image the card
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install xrdp
sudo apt-get install vnc4server (unnecessary I think)
reboot
RDP to the Rpi
click the Raspberry Pi preferences icon, an hourglass shows with the mouse cursor for around 20 seconds, then nothing

I can open the preferences from the unit itself, including the keyboard settings. Interestingly, running older versions of Raspbian around the room, none of them open GUI keyboard settings over RDP, though they do open the preferences. Something flakey going on there.

The Raspberry Pi Configuration application now requires sudo permissions to open – you’ll need to make sure that you have added whichever user you are logging in as to the sudoers group.

on Rpi3 fresh install Strech Lite buil-in wifi not working it was working in jessie

I have tried to use Stretch with can-utils and an MCP2515 CAN-BUS transceiver with no success; very dissappointed:(. Previously it was necessary to use dtoverlays to get such a device working; is this still the case? Has anyone managed a CAN set-up such as this using Stretch, and if you have, would you be willing to share how you did it? As a wider point, has there been any changes to the libraries, settings, files to set-up methods for interfacing the low level pins, such as gpio, 232, i2c and spi? Any help would be appreciated, or it’s back to the drawing board; aka Jessie!

I’m very surprised about the choice of bluez-alsa, knowing that Stretch brings PulsAudio v10, that have everything needed to set up Bluetooth audio profiles (includig,but not only, A2DP, HSP and HFP), using bluez-alsa means that we will have to build it manually every time we have a fresh installation, and there is no official support from ALSA, Bluez or anyone else for bugs…

That said, the big problem with Raspberry Pi that people want to see resolved is the HSP/HFP profiles inputs that never work, and this is more related to Raspberry Pi internal wiring of Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip and its firmware.

Just go to issues section of bluez-alsa to see the increasing number of people raising that: https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa

I spent lot of time investigating this, and I’m sad that despite ethe coming of Stretch, we are again taking the hard way instead of keeping official modules.

Some reading: https://youness.net/raspberry-pi/bluetooth-headset-raspberry-pi-3-ad2p-hsp

Speaking as the poor devil who previously had to try and get PulseAudio working as a transparent solution for Bluetooth audio on the Pi, I have to disagree with pretty much all of that…

PulseAudio is fine as long as you want to use it for all audio devices, but that isn’t practical on the Pi where, due to the hardware design of the Broadcom chip, ALSA is the only way to get efficient low-latency audio output from it. Even if we stuck with PulseAudio for Bluetooth, the audio hardware used by most users (the analogue and HDMI ports) would still have used ALSA, and this then creates a headache for application developers trying to address the audio devices.

Yes, the bluez-alsa port is not perfect, and has issues raised against it – but it is also under regular development and bugs are fixed on a weekly basis, so it is only going to get better. The increasing number of people raising issues reflects that an increasing number of people are using it; so a) it is clearly something people want and b) it is getting a lot of testing. The developer is very responsive to bug reports – arguably more so than the teams working on ALSA, Bluez and PulseAudio.

In an ideal world, the Bluez developers would not have taken the decision to remove ALSA support in Bluez 5, and if they hadn’t, we’d definitely be using it. This is the next best thing – and if people would rather use PulseAudio, they are very welcome to install and configure it themselves, and this change means they won’t find it being stopped and started underneath them by the volume control plugin…

Firefox 55.0.2 (latest from Debian Sid) tells me:
—–
You may need to install the required PulseAudio software

If you see a notification saying “To play audio, you may need to install the required PulseAudio software”, it means that Firefox cannot find or use PulseAudio. Starting with Firefox 52, the PulseAudio software is required to play any audio from Firefox. Most Linux distributions now come with PulseAudio pre-installed.

Use your system’s software package manager and ensure that PulseAudio is correctly installed.
—–
I get No audio with Firefox 55, and very inconsistent audio
with Firefox 52-ESR (Raspian-Stretch).

I’m really getting to like, and use, Raspian-Stretch on my
new RPi3 as replacement for two ailing Android tablets.
Broken sound with Firefox is the only big issue. :(

For sound/video I use: Amazon.com,
Elecrow IPS 13.3 Inch 1080P Portable Screen
1920X1080 HDMI VGA PS3 PS4 WiiU Xbox360
1080P Display Monitor for Raspberry Pi 2B B Plus
Raspberry Pi 3B
—
It includes an HDMI cable, which I plug into the RPi3.
It has two speakers on back panel, and stereo 1/8″ jack.

Actually, there are Two big bugs with Raspian
I have noticed. The second:

Anonmalous Situation:
– Raspian-Stretch-“Heavy” on new RPi3B
– Firefox 55.0.2 (Debian-Sid)
– PDF view in infinite loop loading page.
– All other Raspian activity seems hung/unresponsive.

Actions, initial:
– Waited overnight.

Around noon the next day:
On top:
“Warning: Unresponsive script
A script on this page may be busy,
or it may have stopped responding.
You can stop the script now,
open the script in the debugger,
or let the script continue.
Script: resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.jsm:3187”

Under that:
“Gah. Your tab just crashed. …
Choose Restore This Tab
to reload page content.”

Actions, subsequent:
– Script: Continue
– Tab: Restore This Tab

Results:
PDF view loaded and rendered just fine.

Notes:
– This same kind of situation happens with
both Raspian-Jesse/Firefox 52-ESR and
Raspian-Stretch with both Firefox 52-ESR
and Firefox 55.0.2 (Debian-Sid).
– Usually, not knowing to just Wait Overnight,
I have Power-Cycle-Rebooted Raspian,
which e2fsck complains about.

Chromium is the only browser we officially support. If you are using Firefox and finding bugs in it, whether on Raspbian or not, it would be better to raise them with the Firefox maintainers than here. If something isn’t in our standard image – and Firefox isn’t – then it is the responsibility of the application developers to maintain it, not us.

– Simon Long says: 9th Sep 2017 at 9:04 pm,
“Chromium is the only browser we officially support. …”
– Kevin Bowers says: 9th Sep 2017 at 9:42 pm,
“I, for one, am perfectly happy to lose PulseAudio. …”
– I would not be happy to lose Firefox, so,
we’ll see what they say. Thanks, Simon,
Eddie Maddox

Well, even espeak does not work using Stretch!
Probably other speech synthesis as well… used by lots of home automation systems hosted by PIs!
OK, it’s not in the image but on a stock Debian this just works…

espeak test
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5007:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5007:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround21
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround21
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround40
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround41
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround50
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5007:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5007:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5007:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr – Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr – Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)

Thanks for your reply, I take several good points, and I hope that we will keep this choice as long as possible to have a stable solution based on ALSA.

There seem to have been a ton of incompatibilities and changes introduced that break a LOT of the Raspberry Pi ecosystem’s software and documentation (the popular Piface for example), plus some serious “downgrades” to major components like Nodejs (version 4? really?).

These implications do not seem to have been that carefully considered, and the resultant frustration that is sure to follow will greatly undermine the Raspberry Pi ecosystem – converting it from one where stuff “just works”, to one where a lucky search or guru-level kernel expertise is needed to make things work…

Ouch.

“There seem to have been a ton of incompatibilities and changes introduced that break a LOT of the Raspberry Pi ecosystem’s software…”

Do you have any actual concrete examples of this, or are you just stirring? We haven’t knowingly downgraded anything that we ship; in a couple of instances we have stopped shipping a custom version of a program or library because the default version in Stretch is now sufficiently recent to work with other code, but that’s about it.

nodejs is at version 4.8.2 in Stretch; the same version as in Jessie, as in standard Debian. If you want a more up to date version included, have a word with the Debian maintainers, as this is their decision, not ours.

Hi all, I’ve just updated to Stretch from Jessie but I’ve lost the network and bluetooth icon in between.
The adapters are still there but I can’t set wlan nor bluetooth.

Thanks in advance.

I, for one, am perfectly happy to lose PulseAudio. I run Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 (based on Jessie) on my monster desktop, and I’m one of the few on the LMDE2 forums doing any audio processing that have not simply uninstalled PulseAudio to prevent its unpredictable behavior. I simply reboot before I start an audio project, that’s the easiest way to get PulseAudio to relinquish control to ALSA. I’m hoping LMDE3 (to be Stretch-based) will likewise lack PulseAudio.

Jessie works really like a charm, thanks guys!

I hope you mean “Stretch works like a charm”… ;)

Hi Simon
sorry if i bother you here but I am looking for help to solve a problem of “sudo apt-get update” failure in one of my two RPI3 (Jessie)
I’m still in Jessie ……
Help me ?
Look here please:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=190850#p1209220
Thank you very much
Bob (in3vrr)

I’m afraid the problem looks to be with your network connection rather than anything our end, so I can’t suggest anything that will help. Your sources.list file looks correct to me, so 404s are a network issue.

Hi All,
Having super annoying problems with Stretch. Installed from scratch; now getting “The repository ‘http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Rlease’ is not signed errors.
Also, there’s no easy example on this article on what the /etc/apt/sources.list should look like.
I know Stretch brings new “security” stuff, but doing installs without signing is so much beginner friendly!

which one is much better to use, raspbian stretch, raspbian jessie or noobs.
as i have to do face recognition on it so which one will be more helpful

I’am using OpenPlotter with the OpenCPN as a marine navigation Chartplotter system.

Upgrading of the present Openplotter works well and keeps the settings and plugins as before.

The only thing that was missing was the Zygrib program for downloaden Grib weather predictions.

It all works better and more stable then before. With fast movement of the Charts on the screen. If you switch off OpenGL in the OpenPlotter program !!

It is really a great improvement. Thanks for all the work that has be done for this release.

Bram

Hi Simon,
I’ve just bought a PiFace-Digital2 board and set it up with Stretch on a Pi 3 Model B. When I try to follow the software installation instructions using “sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigitalio” it returns the following:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-pifacedigitalio
Has support for this board been removed from Stretch?
Would it work if I started again using Jessie?
At the moment I have 30 quid’s worth of useless circuit board, so any advice would be appreciated!
Kevin.

It looks as if the makers of PiFace have not supplied any Stretch-compatible versions of their software, so I’d suggest you stick to Jessie for now. You can download old images from http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/archive/

Piface modules are also available on PyPi and seem to work on Stretch (see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=194332 and https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=194408)
Install with pip:
sudo pip install pifacecommon pifacedigitalio
Use pip3 for Python 3

What is the default root pasword? I have been trying to find it, and have seen several posts claiming it’s “root”, but that doesn’t seem to be it.

There is no root password set by default – you need to set one if you want to login as root. When logged in as the “pi” user, open a terminal and enter “sudo passwd root”, and set the password you want.

Well, I have tried quite a few ways, similar to what you mentioned. As root, (sudo -i) I tried changing the password, but even though it told me it was successfully changed, it would not let me log in using SSH or SCP.

I just tried it the way you mentioned, but it still won’t let me log in remotely. I can SSH or SCP to pi. That isn’t too bad for SSH, because it is a simple matter to use “sudo -i” to become root.

However, for SSH, I cannot change to root.

Perhaps I have asked the wrong question. Let’s try this one…
How can I allow SCP or SSH to accept a root login?

Password access for SSH logins as root is disabled; you need to use a pre-shared SSH key to login as root, or to change the SSH configuration – see https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/enable-root-logins-using-ssh-jessie/

Can Raspbian stretch work for the Raspberry Pi2b ??

It works on all versions of the Pi, including the Pi 2.

Okay thank you

I has a error by editing the configuration.
It says:

Error writing /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf: No such file or directory

Can you help me?
I use Raspian Strech Lite

Thanks in advance!

Has anyone gotten lirc to work under stretch? I hear its broken. I tried loading 0.10 from lirc.org but it doesn’t seem to help.

Hi all.

Have been working with Raspbian for over a year now.

Got my head around a lot of things and have troubleshooted a lot of issues.

Have been using Raspbian stretch now since released.

Just encounted an issue with the latest update, where the gui will not load. splash works but then gui boot stops with terminal prompt appears. startx will not work.

Can someone please help with this issue.
Thank you very much.

Had a similar issue updating from Jessie via dist-upgrade yesturday. Had a grey screen with x cursor on VNC no GUI locally. I ended up copying off what I needed and started with a fresh image of Stretch.

If I had more time though, I would have looked back at install choices. I kept original autostart and lightdm.conf files rather then take the package installers version. Lightdm was failing on startup. I tried a repair of lightdm but encountered other issues with desktop-file-utils.

Where do we report bugs?

Thanks.

Hi. I am trying out Stretch today and am running into quite a few Hash Sum mismatch errors installing packages…

sudo apt-get install -y \
libglew-dev \
libtiff5-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libjpeg-dev \
libjasper-dev \
libavcodec-dev \
libavformat-dev \
libavutil-dev \
libpostproc-dev \
libswscale-dev \
libeigen3-dev \
libtbb-dev \
cmake \
pkg-config

Get:37 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libglu1-mesa-dev armhf 9.0.0-2.1 [169 kB]
Err:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch/main armhf mesa-common-dev armhf 13.0.6-1+rpi2
Hash Sum mismatch
Hashes of expected file:
– SHA256:78e74685eb1c0f880106d936c2f502cd31e12a50543543c2ec6e93e493d77a1c
– SHA1:63f0fbe5f4ed4bd14622ea19111e32362850c23e [weak]
– MD5Sum:163c31bca6f8794d86e1d76b32b70019 [weak]
– Filesize:516520 [weak]
Hashes of received file:
– SHA256:a178850b84d6e467e79a2ae87bb6f59cc5d868de37968773dd199f5ce9f2e1c1
– SHA1:857f39c062bb5c1a3e48f3a1d7fbe9e78c1a7fde [weak]
– MD5Sum:9833967e52ded87f15009029d7ad0f1d [weak]
– Filesize:516096 [weak]
Last modification reported: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:33:24 +0000
Get:38 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch/main armhf libgl1-mesa-dev armhf 13.0.6-1+rpi2 [41.4 kB]
Get:39 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libglew-dev armhf 2.0.0-3 [126 kB]
Get:40 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libpostproc54 armhf 7:3.2.8-1~deb9u1 [72.8 kB]
Get:41 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libpostproc-dev armhf 7:3.2.8-1~deb9u1 [73.7 kB]
Get:42 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libx11-doc all 2:1.6.4-3 [2,201 kB]
Get:43 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libeigen3-dev all 3.3.2-1 [839 kB]
Get:44 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libtbb2 armhf 4.3~20150611-2 [105 kB]
Get:45 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libtbb-dev armhf 4.3~20150611-2 [236 kB]
Fetched 8,421 kB in 2min 47s (50.3 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/m/mesa/mesa-common-dev_13.0.6-1+rpi2_armhf.deb Hash Sum mismatch
Hashes of expected file:
– SHA256:78e74685eb1c0f880106d936c2f502cd31e12a50543543c2ec6e93e493d77a1c
– SHA1:63f0fbe5f4ed4bd14622ea19111e32362850c23e [weak]
– MD5Sum:163c31bca6f8794d86e1d76b32b70019 [weak]
– Filesize:516520 [weak]
Hashes of received file:
– SHA256:a178850b84d6e467e79a2ae87bb6f59cc5d868de37968773dd199f5ce9f2e1c1
– SHA1:857f39c062bb5c1a3e48f3a1d7fbe9e78c1a7fde [weak]
– MD5Sum:9833967e52ded87f15009029d7ad0f1d [weak]
– Filesize:5160

Thx bro

Hi guys,

I’ve install Raspbian Stretch using NOOBS.

I tried etcher first, but install failed.
First time I tried, I got 4 raspberries and … nothing.
I let some time passed: nada.
I tried again, and this time I have more than 4 raspberries
I have also dozens of errors…
And nothing more.

So: installed with NOOBS.
When done, I’ve also installed KODI as a MediaCenter.

But unfortunately, I have no video output nor pictures.
I have sound, when any but that’s all.

I’ve reinstalled Kodi several time, but it looks like the issue is not with Kodi (I got my super linux guru friend looking at it), but maybe with a lib somewhere.

Hi,

I’m using Pi3. I’ve installed fresh copy of stretch.

When I do “sudo apt-get update” it will get stuck at “0% [Connecting to mirrordirector.raspbian.org (93.93.128.193)]” then it will display “E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?”

I was asked for my VNC PW after a long time; I panicked and tried uppercase/other a few times and got kicked out for too many tries. My local PI is fine, just my VNC access. Kindly help!!
Thanks

Ken

Since Raspbian Stretch is reported to have so many bugs, is there a user-friendly site I can go to to download the Jessie version?

All software has bugs. Stretch, frankly, has no more than Jessie – it’s being used by hundreds of thousands of Pi users with very few reports of serious issues and is a reliable, stable operating system; it performs significantly better than Jessie on things like boot times. It also has the advantage that any bugs that are in it are likely to be fixed, which they aren’t in Jessie any more.

Nonetheless, if you really want Jessie, all previous releases can be downloaded from http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/

Oh. Never mind then. Thanks for the help.

Does Raspbian use the same version numbering as the original Linux, where if the second field is odd, the version is unstable?

Depends what you mean by Raspbian’s version number. The one we display on the desktop splash screen is an internal code number to identify releases of the desktop, and we don’t (knowingly…) release anything unstable. This number was introduced because there wasn’t an obvious version number to Raspbian itself, which basically just tracks Debian.

Okay. Got it. Thanks again!

Does anyone know of a straightforward walk through like this – https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/bluetooth-audio-raspberry-pi-3/ – but for stretch?

I checked the docs for bluez on GitHub and looks like a lot of work.

There’s no need to do any of this on Stretch; just use the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar to connect to devices. All required software is already installed in the Stretch image. It’s a lot easier than what is described in this article, which pre-dates the inclusion of Bluetooth support in our standard images.

Hi.
After update to Stretch Shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+T, Ctrl+E doesn’t work. What can I do to fix it?

Is it possible to use a PS4 controller on a Raspbian system via bluetooth? Is there any software I would need to download to do this?

Since the Raspberry Pi is used by many as a development board, why doesn’t the Foundation bother supplying a variant with the real time patches to the kernel?

Not only RAT’s are hard to detect, any malicious programs are when the hacker behind can buy / code their own material to make it stealth and undetected.
They coded a poly crypter few years ago for my official penetration testing and still can make undetectable any programs including of course RAT’s / Viruses / Worms etc.. i did this using the help of darkwebsolutions dot co, they have the best materials.

How do you copy the internal sd card with SD Card Copier on full version of Raspbian Stretch? My sd card doesn’t even show up in the list. I have multiple OS installed so that may be it but doesn’t seem likely.

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