Installation issue on Orangepi zero2 - unable to access settings page

[joshindc]

I was hoping I could get some help getting my installation up and running. I've purchased an OrangePi Zero 2 (w/1GB ram) as of course raspberry pis are sold out everywhere, hoping to get birdNet-Pi up and running. I get through the install script and am able to see the web interface when I navigate to the ip address in a browser, but I'm not able to change any settings. When I click on the tools tab, it (usually) prompts for username and password, and I enter birdnet without a password and it shows me the list of options (Settings, System Info, System Controls, etc). When I click on most of these links I'm able to access the page without issue, but when I click on settings the login request pops up again and birdnet without a password does not work. I suspect this is not my only issue, but it's difficult to troubleshoot further without being able to look at the settings!

Here's my install process so far:
I downloaded and used etcher to copy the Orangepizero2_3.0.6_debian_bullseye_server_linux5.16.17.7z image from the orangepi website (armbian images would all bootloop after a restart).
used ssh over ethernet to gain access as there was no way to change the config files like on a raspberry pi image
Then I apt-get update and upgraded
I changed the name of the non-root user to birder (I don't think that's needed but I wanted to try anything I could think of)
Ran: apt-get install python3-venv
That gave me an error and suggested fixing with:
apt fix-broken install
Then I reran apt-get install python3-venv which completed this time
Then I ran the curl command to install birdnet. The script completes and reboots the machine, and as I said I'm able to see the webpage but not change any settings.

Any suggestions on things to try? I realize I'm outside the expected use-case with different hardware, but I feel like I'm close and am hitting a brick wall.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Josh

[ehpersonal38]

Hi,

Could you please follow these steps to enable php error logging: #609 (reply in thread)

After that you'll want to have the command tail -f /var/log/syslog running in a terminal. Then, you can repeat the behavior that causes the password to be reprompted over and over, and check to see what errors pop up in the terminal.

[mcguirepr89]

If I were to take a guess, I would guess that the installation actually failed because it is likely that the birder user is not in /etc/sudoers.d/ with a NOPASSWD entry. @joshindc, can you confirm whether you've provided passwordless sudo permissions for the birder user?

This is what needs to exist to have your vanilla debian take on some Raspi-isms: File path = /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd

birder ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

If that sudoers.d file does not exist, you'll need to create it, then uninstall BirdNET-Pi and reinstall it.