Re: headless Pi zero + NOIR Picam + Bookworm + motion

On 27/09/2024 11:24, nev young wrote:

On 26/09/2024 21:13, druck wrote:

On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:

Resolved.
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I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made last March.
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Everything works reliably again.
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(as long as I never run apt)!
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Buster is very old,

so am I :-) 71 next month.
 Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is

still receiving updates.

I was running Bullseye when the wifi started to fail.
AFAICT there was something about wps being deprecated and replaced with nm. But the confs were not converted. Other reasons have also been given. I wasn't amused to have to pull 21 SD cards and re-flash them especially as quite a few require ladders and a team of 3 guys to do it under current H&S rules.
 So I'm sticking with and old, probably unsupported, o/s that just works.
 Reminds me of an old engineering saying.
"If it's not broke, don't fix it" :-)
 

I have to agree. I have a version of something nasty from the woodshed* of expired Linux distros running one Pi Zero...and its simply not possible to add any new code to it as its repos are extinct.
Hence the development on a fresh PI with bookworm...
*Cold Comfort Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdcsfmpTHg
Apart from security, the only reason I have to upgrade is to get other peoples new applications to run
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In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone gets full Marx.