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Questions tagged [raspberry-pi-os]

Do not use this tag. It was intended for issues common to Raspberry Pi OS, but Raspberry Pi OS - Bullseye is significantly different to its predecessor.
Use the version specific tags raspberry-pi-os-buster or raspberry-pi-os-bullseye.

From May 2020 Raspbian was renamed Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)

Raspberry Pi OS was a name change to discriminate between Raspbian (the independent open source project) and the 32-bit images that Raspberry Pi builds on top of it.

In Nov 2021 a new version Raspberry Pi OS - Bullseye was released.

There is a 64 bit version in beta release.

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How do I set up networking/WiFi/static IP address on Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS?

I have followed (any one of hundreds) tutorial, and it does not work. How do I set up networking/WiFi/static IP address on the Raspberry Pi? After the Foundation introduced the dhcpcd networking system to Raspbian in May 2015 there were hundreds…
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How to emulate Raspberry Pi in QEMU?

A few years ago, people were saying they were able to emulate a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 in QEMU. However as of late 2020, I am unable to do so. Can anyone let me know what the correct command line arguments are to emulate a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 in…
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Should I install NOOBS or Raspbian?

The Foundation site used to state states "Beginners should start with NOOBS – New Out Of the Box Software." Raspberry Pi Ltd. now hides NOOBS from unsuspecting novices. Only unscrupulous vendors now supply it.
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How can I see Raspberry Pi OS Version (32bit or 64 bit)?

In order to determine whether or not I have a 64bit OS installed, I have tried the following commands. The output of the commands do not tell me immediately if its a 32bit or 64bit OS. After looking it up, I know armv7 is a 32 bit architecture. But…
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How to set up a Static IP on Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspbian - dhcpcd.conf missing

I am trying to set up a static IP lease on Raspberry Pi 5. The /etc/dhcpcd.conf file does not exist and dhcpcd is not installed. Following the latest guides does not work. I ideally don't need to use DHCP, but if there's a way that works with either…
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Will Raspberry Pi OS update `sudo` to address a recent security vulnerability?

There has been some traffic online this year regarding an apparently substantial vulnerability in sudo that allows unauthorized privilege elevation - CVE-2021-3156. I've been checking sudo --version since I first heard of this, but after tonight's…
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Turn off screen reader in Raspberry Pi OS?

This is a fun one: somehow, the screen reader accessibility setting has been turned on in my Raspberry Pi OS environment. I can't figure out how to turn it off! Other than turning off all audio, the only solution I've found is to uninstall the…
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Standard Passwort not Accepted – Headless Setup

I downloaded the most recent version of Raspberry Pi OS, saved a wpa_supplicant.conf and a ssh file in the boot partition, but I was not able to ssh to the pi with ssh pi@raspberry.local as the standard password raspberry did not work. How can I set…
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Run 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS beta test version

With the latest release from 2020-05-27 the operating system was renamed from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS and its image names are changed from e.g. 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.zip to 2020-05-27-raspios-buster-armhf.zip, with the postfix -armhf. This…
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Headless Wi-Fi setup without the RPi Imager: bootfs/wpa_supplicant.conf not supported since Bookworm

From the docs: Previous versions of Raspberry Pi OS made use of a wpa_supplicant.conf file which could be placed into the boot folder to configure wireless network settings. This is no longer possible from Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm onwards. I'd…
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Uninstall Python2 in Raspberry Pi

I can observe both versions of Python2 and Python3 in my Raspberry Pi. Both of them were by default. Why do we have both the version of python in Raspbian? Is it safe to uninstall Python2 and only keep Python3?
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Why doesn't extract-vmlinux work with Raspbian's /boot/kernel*.img?

To monitor if a reboot is necessary, I wanted to compare the version of /boot/kernel*img against the version of the running kernel. To get the kernel version of a compressed linux kernel image (usually called zImage and named vmlinuz with a z for…
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raspberry pi 4 using SPI 4 & 5 at the same time causes kernel oops and crashes the whole system

intro i want to use multiple SPI busses at the same time. but when i use to use SPI 4 and SPI 5 at the same time it crashes the whole system it doesn't crash instantly sometimes it takes 10 seconds sometimes 10 minutes it works fine if i use any…
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How does Raspberry Pi OS installer know my WiFi password?

In the special settings for the RPi OS installer you can specify the WiFi password for your network. It's already prefilled in. I can even see it by placing checkmark "show password". According to…
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I2C baudrate in Raspberry Pi, depends on arm core frequency

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3, with a Raspberry Pi OS (arm64) official image to communicate with a PMBus compatible device (rpb1600-48 battery charger). I was experiencing communication problems. Sometimes the problems were constant and sometimes they…
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