ARM64/AARCH64 support

[mrhotio]

Could we get ARM64/AARCH64 support in the linux installer? I've seen you mention that you'd consider it....Any update on this?

[hugbug]

I've tried it but the binary didn't work properly. It worked almost fine but at few places there were issues with file access functions. However I was able to perform speed tests which showed no big difference to armhf binary.

I might try with newer build tools to check if the issue has been fixed. However considering no real benefits of it I'm not much motivated to spend another couple of days on this.

[mrhotio]

Yes I understand you not wanting to waste any time on this...one benefit however would be to actually be able to run it. It doesn't run on Ubuntu 18.04 for example, besides the other issue I read of the Arch user.

Does self compiling like linuxserver does not carry over the same problems as you are experiencing or has it more to do with integrating in the installer?

[hugbug]

Do you have such ARM64 system where armhf from installer doesn't work? I could give that issue another try if you can test the new installers and if you have time for this. This can be a long running adventure.

Self compiling should produce perfect executables. The binary from installer is built once and has to work on variety of systems; sometimes that doesn't work as desired.

[mrhotio]

I could test it on an arm64 scaleway instance

[hugbug]

Please send me a note to nzbget@gmail.com and I'll send you installer to test.

It's important to test the whole download process from adding nzb to finished unpack. Not just that the binary runs. OK?

[mrhotio]

ok

[mrhotio]

Worked without a hitch, downloaded nzb just fine, extracted file is OK.

Installer for nzbget-21.0-testing-r2303M
Verifying package...
Checking system...
CPU-Architecture: aarch64
Unpacking...
Configuring...
  Free memory detected: 1599 MB
  Activating article cache (ArticleCache=100)
  Increasing write buffer (WriteBuffer=1024)
  Increasing par repair buffer (ParBuffer=100)
  Activating direct rename (DirectRename=yes)
  CPU speed detected: 800 BogoMIPS
  Disabling download during par check/repair (ParPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during unpack (UnpackPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during post-processing (ScriptPauseQueue=yes)
Installation completed

Quick help (from nzbget-directory):
   ./nzbget -s        - start nzbget in console mode
   ./nzbget -D        - start nzbget in daemon mode (in background)
   ./nzbget -C        - connect to background process
   ./nzbget -Q        - stop background process
   ./nzbget -h        - help screen with all commands

Successfully installed into /app
Web-interface is on http://localhost:6789 (login:nzbget, password:tegbzn6789)
For support please visit http://nzbget.net/forum

[hugbug]

Thanks for the test.

@ALL: I'm now looking for real users who can run this build on their devices for several days in real life.

[fryfrog]

I've got a handful of Pi 3s and they're running arm7 and arm8 versions of a few Linux distros.

[hugbug]

Everyone willing to test the ARM64 build please send me a note to nzbget@gmail.com and I'll provide the installer. Thanks!

It would be especially helpful if someone who already runs nzbget on an ARM64 Linux device could test the new build.

[sanderjo]

Joining this thread ...

[sanderjo]

Yes I understand you not wanting to waste any time on this...one benefit however would be to actually be able to run it. It doesn't run on Ubuntu 18.04 for example

Really? I tried in a Ubuntu 18.04 docker on my ARM64 / Aarch64, and no problem running the installer and the resulting nzbget

root@e743570b9484:/# sh nzbget-21.0-testing-r2302-bin-linux.run
Installer for nzbget-21.0-testing-r2302
Verifying package...
Checking system...
CPU-Architecture: armhf
Unpacking...
Configuring...
  Free memory detected: 291 MB
  Increasing write buffer (WriteBuffer=256)
  CPU speed detected: 192 BogoMIPS
  Disabling download during par check/repair (ParPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during unpack (UnpackPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during post-processing (ScriptPauseQueue=yes)
Installation completed

Quick help (from nzbget-directory):
   ./nzbget -s        - start nzbget in console mode
   ./nzbget -D        - start nzbget in daemon mode (in background)
   ./nzbget -C        - connect to background process
   ./nzbget -Q        - stop background process
   ./nzbget -h        - help screen with all commands

Successfully installed into /nzbget
Web-interface is on http://localhost:6789 (login:nzbget, password:tegbzn6789)
For support please visit http://nzbget.net/forum
root@e743570b9484:/# cd nzbget

root@e743570b9484:/nzbget# ./nzbget 
Usage:
  nzbget [switches]

Switches:
  -h, --help                Print this help-message
  -v, --version             Print version and exit
  -c, --configfile <file>   Filename of configuration-file
<snip>

root@e743570b9484:/nzbget# ./nzbget -s

root@e743570b9484:/nzbget# 

root@e743570b9484:~# uname -a
Linux e743570b9484 4.19.25-sunxi64 #5.78 SMP Mon Apr 8 07:19:19 CEST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@e743570b9484:~# cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"
root@e743570b9484:~# 

[mrhotio]

Could be, how does that change the fact it didn't run for me? I'm not making this stuff up :)

HOST

Linux scw-youthful-curie 4.9.93-mainline-rev1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10 09:54:46 UTC 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"

CONTAINER

Linux 4c5e08cc42a5 4.9.93-mainline-rev1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10 09:54:46 UTC 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"

Installer for nzbget-20.0
Verifying package...
Checking system...
CPU-Architecture: armhf
Unpacking...
Configuring...
  Free memory detected: 1616 MB
  Activating article cache (ArticleCache=100)
  Increasing write buffer (WriteBuffer=1024)
  Increasing par repair buffer (ParBuffer=100)
  Activating direct rename (DirectRename=yes)
  CPU speed detected: 800 BogoMIPS
  Disabling download during par check/repair (ParPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during unpack (UnpackPauseQueue=yes)
  Disabling download during post-processing (ScriptPauseQueue=yes)
Installation completed

Quick help (from nzbget-directory):
   ./nzbget -s        - start nzbget in console mode
   ./nzbget -D        - start nzbget in daemon mode (in background)
   ./nzbget -C        - connect to background process
   ./nzbget -Q        - stop background process
   ./nzbget -h        - help screen with all commands

Successfully installed into /app
Web-interface is on http://localhost:6789 (login:nzbget, password:tegbzn6789)
For support please visit http://nzbget.net/forum

s6-applyuidgid: fatal: unable to exec /app/nzbget: Exec format error

[hugbug]

@hotio, I'm confused. Do you have an aarch64-system where you need to run nzbget? If you do - why you test on scaleway? If you don't - why creating this issue?