Basic Pi install problem

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hello and thanks for suffering a newbie,

I’m trying to install OpenHab 1.3 from the image at https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/releases.

Install eventually completes and UI available on port 8080.
Can’t ssh in as openhabian, only as pi/raspberry.

Have tried the obvious, power supply, quality SD cards, both Pi0W and Pi2. Same results.

After a look at the boot log, it seems that pretty much the first thing of changing the user and password has failed.
Here’s the first bit of first-boot.log and my .conf file with just my test SSID added.

/boot/first-boot.log… (start of)

2017-04-10_09:59:08_UTC [openHABian] Starting the openHABian initial setup. This might take a few minutes.
2017-04-10_09:59:08_UTC [openHABian] If you see this message more than once, something went wrong!
2017-04-10_09:59:08_UTC [openHABian] Storing configuration... /etc/openhabian.conf: line 3: $'\r': command not found
/etc/openhabian.conf: line 7: $'\r': command not found
/etc/openhabian.conf: line 13: $'\r': command not found
/etc/openhabian.conf: line 19: $'\r': command not found
OK
2017-04-10_09:59:09_UTC [openHABian] Changing default username and password... usermod: invalid user name 'openhabian^M'
usermod: user 'openhabian^M' does not exist
groupmod: invalid group name 'openhabian^M'
chpasswd: (user openhabian^M) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
Authentication token manipulation error
chpasswd: (line 1, user openhabian^M) password not changed
OK

/etc/openhabian.conf…

# Modify your openHABian settings
# Handle with care, only touch if you need to!!

hostname=openHABianPi
username=openhabian
userpw=openhabian

# Language and time. Be sure to set these to valid values
timeserver=0.pool.ntp.org
locales="en_US.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8"
system_default_locale="en_US.UTF-8"
timezone=Europe/Berlin

# Wifi settings. An ethernet connection is recommended
# Requirement: RPi3, RPi0W, PineA64 or a supported external Wi-Fi dongle
# Uncomment and fill in your SSID and password
wifi_ssid="Salinas"
wifi_psk="********"

# vim: filetype=sh

If anyone can guide me in the right direction you will be my hero! - Thanks.

2

Brain Failure!. It’s version 2.1 that I’m trying to install.

3

Looks like there might be some extra character in the configuration file. See the “^M” in the log? It’s just a guess though.

4

Right.
The editor you’ve changed the openhabian.conf with modified the line endings of that file. I guess some ancient Mac editor but please name it here. What you need to do is start anew, then edit the file with any modern text editor

5

OK, that was Windows 7 notepad. I will edit with nano over ssh.
Thanks Thom for a really quick reply.
I feel I should have spotted that myself…

6

Editing the file on the RPi after booting is too late!

Use Notepad++ on Windows or install VS Code while you are at it, you’ll need it anyhow: http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/editors.html#openhab-vscode

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Thank you. Up and running now. Took 3hrs 40 m to boot up fully on my Pi2 with a decent internet connection.
Now using Notepad++ to edit files.

Looking forward to getting into the detail and integrating my big node-red system into OpenHab.