How to restart openHABian3 on rasberry PI

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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: Rasberry PI 4B 4GB 16 GB SD card
    • OS: Latest flash for rasberry 64bit you find here Releases · openhab/openhabian · GitHub
    • Java Runtime Environment: the one included in the flash mentioned above
    • openHAB version: 3.0.0
  • Issue of the topic: After installing the opencloud connector binding and using the correct uid and secred in myopenhab.org the system stay mentioned as ofline. On this forum I found that you need to restart the openhab environment and that seems not to be possible so I have to do something wrong.
    I can connect via putty with the rasberry as explained here with the same login openhabian.

I try to do what is mentioned here to restart the openhab with those statements:
sudo openhab-cli stop
sudo openhab-cli start

but then I got the error message that he do not know the openhabian user as a sudo user.

I tried it also with sudo /bin/systemctl stop openhab.service and sudo /bin/systemctl start openhab.service with the same result.

So with what user and passwordt I’m able to do this with this set-up or how I can get this user as a sudo user?

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What do you get if you do

grep sudo /etc/group

and

cat /etc/passwd |grep -v /bin/false |grep -v /usr/sbin/nologin
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this one give:
sudo:x:27:pi

So I supose I have to use this user? But what is then the password in the standard flash installation for this user?

This one gives this result:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
pi:x:1000:1000:,:/home/pi:/bin/bash
openhabian:x:1001:115:openHABian,openHAB admin user:/home/openhabian:/bin/bash
frontail:x:1002:1002::/var/tmp:/bin/bash

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login as user pi and use sudo to add user openhabian to sudo group.
Then you can continue as usual.
I think I saw one ( ? ) other user having the same problem.

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And what password is then provided in the standard install of the flash for this user? The standard pasword from the rasberry is not working, and I tried also several standaard openhab openhabian paswords for this user and they are all not working. So in that way you are messed up.

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Are there any error messages in /boot/first-boot.log ?

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Did you read the note on the Releases page?

Note the 64 bit version is unsupported and untested. It's provided just as-is.

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Sorted

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Not real errors found except this:

2020-12-17 22:27:44.974 [ERROR] [io.openhabcloud.internal.CloudClient] - Error connecting to the openHAB Cloud instance: not authorized
2020-12-18 07:37:17.395 [ERROR] [io.openhabcloud.internal.CloudClient] - Error connecting to the openHAB Cloud instance: {}

Please ignore the following error about deb-systemd-helper not finding those services.
(samba-ad-dc.service masked)
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nmbd.service → /lib/systemd/system/nmbd.service.
Failed to preset unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service is masked.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on samba-ad-dc.service: No such file or directory

I found also this, but I believe that this is not related to the unix users:
2020-12-29_20:38:21_GMT [openHABian] Starting the openHABian initial setup.
2020-12-29_20:38:27_GMT [openHABian] Storing configuration… OK
2020-12-29_20:39:00_GMT [openHABian] Starting webserver with installation log… OK
2020-12-29_20:39:08_GMT [openHABian] Changing default username and password… SKIPPED
2020-12-29_20:39:14_GMT [openHABian] Setting up Ethernet connection… OK

Also the following was skipped:
2020-12-29_22:08:03_CET [openHABian] tailscale VPN installation… SKIPPED (no preauthkey defined)

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That I missed. Mean this that for a 64 bit Rasberry there is currently no stable install?

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This is skipped because of the way openhabian determines what OS is running and the 64bit os reports differently.

I running it on an 8gig pi because of kernel oops with zram :slight_smile:
Its not stable and its not supported and I running an experimental version and its not my production its still on OH2

The only error I got was when putting in auth key I used the wrong address and it loaded the whole http page into the authorised key file

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What about reading the docs before install ?

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This link I found a way to make the openhabian sudo user. Thanks for sharing that.

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Well before I had my raspberry I was started with experimenting on OH2 on windows. I had read a lot of documentation at that time.
Then I received my raspberry and then the OH3 was the one to install, and I have not read everything again because I wanted to move forward. When the raspberry is 64bits I was expectig best taking that version for the installation too.
I had not the goal to attack anyone, just a question how I could get out a specific situation and I’m a bit surpriced to get then such an agressive answer in place. Lucky I got also usefull answers.

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so you didn’t even click the link … maybe you should ?

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Marc, I did and I have replied on that message that I found their usefull information and that I was gratefull for sharing that. I suppose that you have even not read that reply?
This was a reply on an other message then the link.

Happy 2021 to everybody.

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So to answer the restart question now that you have sudo you can

sudo /bin/systemctl stop openhab.service
sudo /bin/systemctl start openhab.service
sudo /bin/systemctl restart openhab.service
sudo /bin/systemctl status openhab.service

Markus was just linking you to the document he wrote.

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