Hi Forum. I am trying to setup Manjaro ARM 20 (latest, 20.08) on Raspberry Pi 3b.
And setup freezes, in a variety of ways, just before the login screen can load up.
I am assuming this is a matter of memory allocation, as the board is pretty capable but of course doesn’t have quite the same memory the Raspberry 4 has.
So: either video memory, or swap availability.
How can I resize the swap or force a larger swap size, or resize the vmem from another computer, ie. is it possible to edit some configuration file/system files in order to achieve something like this?
Thanks for your replies.
[Also: I tried including a video to show the setup process and make it easier to identify the timing of this issue, but the forum doesn’t allow linking yet - which is strange? Can I get linking “privilege” after some time around here please? I am definitely not a robot.
We have reports of the boot process taking a lot of time, where it seemingly hangs at “Reached target Bluetooth”.
Waiting for a few minutes should make it continue.
We are not sure why this happens yet, but it seems related to Network Manager as that fails to enable and then re-enables fine when it continues.
Ok, so I restarted the setup from scratch based on your advice, and I waited, and this time it went through. It did hang though, but it did so at “starting home area manager”.
Also mentioned something about zram and undervoltage.
I am up and running. Things are running smoothly (which is quite impressive) and I am updating packages.
One caveat: this monitor can do full HD with this Pi (does it during setup), but the desktop currently runs at 720p. Anything I can try?