Raspbian: Password and ID problems

Hi everybody,

I wanted to give you an update on the password and ID issues:

As you have reported, the problem only exists on Raspbian. Meanwhile I could confirm that it only happens on recent images of Raspbian. As old images with all updates installed behave as intended, I consider this a bug in Raspbian. If it was intentional, they probably would have changed it for updated installations, too.

The observed change is that recent Rasbians no longer have the file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and the file /etc/machine-id is no longer static, but randomly changed with every reboot.

We will implement a solution on our side, avoiding this dependency on distribution-specific behavior. Please understand that a well-implemented and well-tested update will take a few weeks. Thanks for your patience and support!

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DanielStm

We have just released a new update, fixing this problem. Please see here for details:

New release of the TeamViewer Host for Linux (v12.0.78433)

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DanielStm

We have just released a new update, fixing this problem. Please see here for details:

New release of the TeamViewer Host for Linux (v12.0.78433)

generik99

The machine-id change in Raspbian has also cause problems with other packages. I was able to workaround the problem with the following steps.

Seems as if the machine-id tmpfs filesystem (which is what's causing the machine-id to change on every reboot) is only created if the actual file doesn't exist in the filesystem.

1. back up the current machine-id:

sudo cp /etc/machine-id /etc/machine-id.old

2. unmount the machine-id tmpfs filesystem (recently introduced in raspbian):

sudo umount /etc/machine-id

3. replace the unmounted filesystem with the backup:

sudo cp /etc/machine-id.old /etc/machine-id

4. Reboot the pi and reset the teamviewer password one last time.

I've tried this on a few Pis running the latest Raspbian update, both the IDs and Passwords are now preserved between reboots.

More details on the machine-id issue here:

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/66364/constantly-changing-etc-machine-id/66469

Noclad

Thanks, created headaches for me wondering if I had entered the wrong password...

Please update this post when https://pages.teamviewer.com/published/raspberrypi/ has been updated with a new version with a fix for this.

Thanks,

Ravenheld

Works just fine !

Thanks A LOT

higherbeats

hello there, i am new here.

my problem is, that TV does not even give me an ID. I also connaot bind an account to it. :-(

is there anybody here who had the same problem? ( i am also a Raspi noob, but i am reading and willing to learn ;-) )

thanx in advance