Just wanted to give a shout out to @mutedial — the installation guide got me up and running, first-try, in about 45 minutes last night :bowing_man:

I also experienced the SUPERCOLLIDER FAIL error at the very end, but a simple RESET (via the menu) cleared things up.

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funny this thread popped up today, as my CM3+ showed up. hope to try upgrading tonight.

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finally tried to swap this out tonight. everything seemed to work. etcher deemed it a success, but my Norns won’t power on. The light on the back stays on as long as I hold in the power up button, but when I release it, it just turns off. I tried to reflash, but now my when I plug it into my computer I get ‘Failed to claim interface’ in rpiboot and a USB error from Windows. Anyone have any suggestions?

edit: tried a couple different USB ports and managed to reflash it in etcher, but the norns still won’t power on after it’s finished.

ensure the internal switch is back on RUN mode.

when in doubt, switch back to the original CM3, and don’t hesitate to reflash the CM3+. many issues come down to a bad download of the image.

Will try redownloading today.

Got it up and running with a fresh flash. Got the disk expanded. But can’t shake a Supercollider Fail… just reflash again?

prob just reboot. But you could do a search on the norns help thread for other things to try for the supercollider fail error.

rebooted about 10 times. reflashed 4 times, downloaded the image 2 times. tried updating both automatically, and manually. will have to slog through the help thread to see if there’s any other suggestions.

One suggestion you’ll see a lot in that thread is to log in to your Norns using ssh or screen and try to run sclang. It will probably fail to start, but the output may provide a hint or two about what’s going wrong.

here’s one starting place. Norns: help

As synthetivv suggested, this error is because sclang is not starting properly.

not sure what any of this means.....
compiling class library...
        Found 716 primitives.
        Compiling directory '/usr/share/SuperCollider/SCClassLibrary'
        Compiling directory '/usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions'
        Compiling directory '/home/we/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions'
        Compiling directory '/home/we/norns/sc/core'
        Compiling directory '/home/we/norns/sc/engines'
        Compiling directory '/home/we/norns/sc/ugens'
        Compiling directory '/home/we/dust'
        numentries = 1049693 / 12504774 = 0.084
        4351 method selectors, 2874 classes
        method table size 7837404 bytes, big table size 50019096
        Number of Symbols 12509
        Byte Code Size 344904
        compiled 373 files in 1.09 seconds

Info: 4 methods are currently overwritten by extensions. To see which, execute:
MethodOverride.printAll

compile done
localhost : setting clientID to 0.
internal : setting clientID to 0.
Class tree inited in 1.1 seconds

-------------------------------------------------
 Crone startup

 OSC rx port: 57120
 OSC tx port: 8888
 server port: 57122
 server port: 9999
--------------------------------------------------



*** Welcome to SuperCollider 3.10.0. *** For help type ctrl-c ctrl-h (Emacs) or :SChelp (vim) or ctrl-U (sced/gedit).
Booting server 'localhost' on address 127.0.0.1:57110.
sc3> Found 0 LADSPA plugins
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.12
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2017 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
Failed to connect to session bus for device reservation: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
Cannot initialize driver
To bypass device reservation via session bus, set JACK_NO_AUDIO_RESERVATION=1 prior to starting jackd.

JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
could not initialize audio.
terminate called without an active exception
Server 'localhost' exited with exit code 0.

looks like your soundcard is not working or jack isn’t running

did you try the old CM3?

Hooooboy. Will try that shortly when I get home.

Undid all the screws and rebooted it and now it works. Is there a chance something is under tension from the internal screws? Or is it just being weird?

Edit… Uh oh. Just put it back together and rebooted and got the error. Opened it back up and it’s fine again. Some screw is causing an issue. Maybe I should reflow the jacks before closing it back up?

aha. i remember running into this a couple times.

try removing the screen ribbon cable, re-folding it so it’s very tight. is that doesn’t help, slip a small strip of paper between the CM3+ and the pcb under the socket.

the CM3+ is a little taller than the CM3, so something is too tight, pushing the CM3+ down into the board, on top of the codec. i suspect the ribbon cable. let me think of what else it might be— i need to disassemble a unit and inspect.

I reseated everything and screwed it all back together and things seemed to shift less this time and it’s still working. So your scenario also is reassuring. Some more things to mess with if it happens again. Thanks everyone for the input. This was actually a lot easier than all the walk throughs seem to a none programmer.

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Oh, interesting. CM3+ installation went smoothly for me, but my key 2 feels a little different/stiffer now. Still totally functional, but perhaps this explains things…

you could try opening it up and reseating the screws— pay attention to the alignment of the keys.

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Another successful CM3+ install thanks to these instructions!

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EDIT : so i tried using another computer running macos 10.13.6 and it worked. the installation went smoothly. but then when i boot it, i get supercollider fail. tried to reset few times, but still no luck. switching back to the old CM3 and now i also got the supercollider error too. any suggestions?


hi, i want to ask some help. i was trying to upgrade my norns. was following the instruction by mutedial.
i’m stuck at step 3, build rpi step, after i did :

cd usbboot
make

i got an error, " clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [rpiboot] Error 1"

and then when i did sudo “sudo ./rpiboot” i got “command not found”
i’m on mac os 10.12.6, and not really familiar with Terminal. can anybody help?

thanks