moved to userspace

When you do first login, you need to choose correct locales combination and language in desktop should follow - you still need to install desktop packages ... If you don't have locales support in the system, you won't be able to use it in desktop. I think this is the problem. In my case, when I select my own locales (sl_SI.UTF-8) and install those desktop related packages, I have Gnome with Slovene support.

RPi added some checks in their initramfs post-update script which causes this, found here: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware: case $flavour in v8|v8-rt|2712|v6|v7|v7l) ;; *) echo "ERROR: Unsupported initramfs version ($initrd_version)" exit 0 ;; esac However there is also another fine in this folder which was added years ago: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6039/files#diff-02b9b6fbb77fcab23278cd4a148b3f2c91d2c1361d05f33a21bdab19182caf21R139-R153 That seems to handle initramfs creation properly. So the error message is purely cosmetical. That would give trouble when updating rpi packages from upstream since there would be changes detected. Better solution might be to add a hint to our code stating that the ERROR can be ignored as long as overall initramfs generation was successful.

@Cancer Why you need to drop ifconfig for ip: https://opensource.com/article/21/1/ifconfig-ip-linux If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past https://ubuntu.com/blog/if-youre-still-using-ifconfig-youre-living-in-the-past there are certain things in this article that can be done in ip command that takes more than just ifconfig to do the same. Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/22/introduction-to-linux-interfaces-for-virtual-networking#vlan ^ this matters if you are bothered about containers, docker, virtual machines, virtualbox, vpn, wireguard, vlan, etc etc otherwise, if you don't need any of containers, docker, virtual machines, virtualbox, vpn, wireguard, vlan, etc etc you can live with ifconfig in a certain sense, the availability of this network infrastructure in linux along with ip command as one of the tools accounts for the modern trillion $ cloud services: amazon aws, google cloud, azure, ibm redhat, and practically every other vps, web, any sort of cloud services on Internet that runs on linux today. anyway, to get ifconfig it is simply sudo apt install net-tools https://www.fosslinux.com/121757/how-to-install-missing-ifconfig-command-on-linux.htm

accordingly, one can remove Netplan if one don't like it https://www.baeldung.com/linux/etc-network-interfaces-netplan-switch and that actually even with Netplan one can configure a different renderer, e.g. Network-Manager https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/ or for that matter, I think it is feasible to remove Netplan altogether and just use Network Manager, if one prefers that or even for that matter switch back to the raw lowest level /etc/network/interfaces as described in the 1st link In addition show the detailed sequence of events and provide details that: if you cannot show this in detail, then what is your basis of saying that it happens? Note that normally, there is a sequence of events, the interfaces need to be setup first hand, then that the firewall (e.g. iptables) is configured after that. What you need to proof in addition, is that Netplan or NetworkManager *revoke or change* your iptables / firewall setup if they are configured after Netplan / NetworkManager setup the interfaces. i.e. that it is potentially malicious if all that you mention can be rigiously proven then that perhaps we can file that with mitre and have the world cybersecurity issue a major CVE about it. https://attack.mitre.org/ https://www.cve.org/ i.e. that the whole world and every web server, every vps, anyone any servers running wordpress on linux, any webs running linux, everyone including the whole amazonaws, azure, google cloud, redhat ibm, etc etc running linux follow up and fix *all the servers in the Internet*