Error message on update of debian jessie on banana pi M64

[Freek de Kruijf]

I got the following error message on "apt update" on a debian jessie system on
a Banana Pi M64:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' in Release file
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Indeed main/binary-arm64 is missing there. Others like main/binary-armhf or
main/binary-armel are available. Should I enter a bug report?

[Paul Wise]

Post by Freek de Kruijf
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' in Release file
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

The Debian LTS team does not support arm64 for jessie:

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.

If you don't want to upgrade and don't need security support:

http://archive.debian.org/debian/

[Freek de Kruijf]

Post by Paul Wise

Post by Freek de Kruijf
W: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease Unable to find
expected entry 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong
sources.list entry or malformed file)

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.
http://archive.debian.org/debian/

Appears to be quite easy. Found the method by searching the internet. Thanks
for the suggestion.

[Gene Heskett]

Post by Freek de Kruijf

Post by Paul Wise

Post by Freek de Kruijf
W: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease Unable
to find expected entry 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' in Release
file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.

I've done that, and its much less stable than a jessie install, needing a
powerdown reboot about hourly. Not only that, but logging into a console
to do almost anything I could just do on jessie is now blocked because
the console login is now prevented from running anything that needs x.
This makes maintenance or code development a major pain in the a$$.

Post by Freek de Kruijf

Post by Paul Wise
http://archive.debian.org/debian/

Appears to be quite easy. Found the method by searching the internet.
Thanks for the suggestion.

[Freek de Kruijf]

Post by Gene Heskett

Post by Paul Wise
I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.

I've done that, and its much less stable than a jessie install, needing a
powerdown reboot about hourly. Not only that, but logging into a console
to do almost anything I could just do on jessie is now blocked because
the console login is now prevented from running anything that needs x.
This makes maintenance or code development a major pain in the a$$.

I went from the Raspberry Pi 3B to the Banana Pi M64 only because it has 2GB
memory instead of 1 GB. I run a number of standard services on it of which
email or rather virus scanning became a problem. The system runs headless with
only ssh, no X, for maintenance. So I do not have the problems you reported.

[Gene Heskett]

Post by Freek de Kruijf

Post by Gene Heskett

Post by Paul Wise
I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.

I've done that, and its much less stable than a jessie install,
needing a powerdown reboot about hourly. Not only that, but logging
into a console to do almost anything I could just do on jessie is
now blocked because the console login is now prevented from running
anything that needs x. This makes maintenance or code development a
major pain in the a$$.

I went from the Raspberry Pi 3B to the Banana Pi M64 only because it
has 2GB memory instead of 1 GB. I run a number of standard services on
it of which email or rather virus scanning became a problem. The
system runs headless with only ssh, no X, for maintenance. So I do not
have the problems you reported.

Does the bananna pi have the same gpio drivers and gpio pinouts? But I
just did a google search, finding such info is non-existant. So never
mind.

I guess one could buy one but after my experience with the rock64, 2 of
them, its not worth the hassle. Support essentially isn't. For the
banana Pi, there is nothing on their site but a cycle of pictures, none
of which are clickable to find out more about an individual board. Sure,
they want you to buy thru their dealer tree, but to bother clicking on
one of those links, I'd need to have a reason, and their factory site
didn't give me a reason to do that. I also made note that there are NO
US based dealers.