apk core dumps

[drtonyr]

I have a Kindle Paperwhite 3 that has been running Alpine for many years - thanks a lot.

I recently deleted then reinstalled everything through KUAL, so deploying the latest version.

apk doesn't work for me. If I try 'apk update' I get lots of: ERROR: XXXX: UNTRUSTED signature WARNING: Ignoring XXXX: UNTRUSTED signature

and if I run apk --allow-untrusted update then it core dumps.

Linux kindle 3.0.35-lab126 #2 PREEMPT Fri Feb 10 04:02:50 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
[root@kindle root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
Processor	: ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 790.16
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x2
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 10

Hardware	: Freescale i.MX 6SoloLite based Wario Board
Revision	: 60000
Serial		: "G090G105628407EQ"
BoardId		: "0670309162770SGS"

Kindle release is 5.15.1.1 (the latest, Jailbreak was maintained).

It's an old processor, maybe Alpine dropped support?

[xyaon]

I don't think alpine dropped support, the problem is probably with the included package. You can work around the issue by downloading the latest official armhf executable and updating trough it.

[drtonyr]

Thank you @xyaon, I'm now running again. What I did was:

$ sudo apt install qemu-user-static
$ git clone https://github.com/schuhumi/alpine_kindle
$ cd alpine_kindle
$ ./create_kindle_alpine_image.sh
$ cp -p alpine.ext3 /media/tonyr/Kindle/alpine.ext3

it was pretty painless, there was only one error and that was ignored:

ERROR: unable to select packages:
  gnome-themes-extra (no such package):
    required by: world[gnome-themes-extra]

It's so cool to see

[root@kindle ]# cat /etc/issue 
Welcome to Alpine Linux 3.18_alpha20230329 (edge)

[aviwad]

hey. i'm unable to create my own image. the script doesn't work on an arm64 linux machine (my m1 mac). any way you could share your fresh image? or any steps i could take to upgrade my alpine chroot? thanks a lot.