SteeMan

The Armbian build framework is constantly evolving. As well as the software that it is building. So generally each day a build will be slightly different from the previous days build (that is why there are nightly builds produced). I don't know what you are trying to accomplish so I can't really help you any further than that.

Moved post to Community Maintained/Staging as this board is a Work In Process and not yet supported. Note: The typical way a new board gets introduced to Armbian, is the first step is to bring it in with the 'vendor' kernel. Which is getting what the board manufacturer released building under Armbian. Normally the board manufacturers don't support the OS for their boards so whatever gets released is likely never to be updated to anything newer. And often the linux kernels they use are heavily patched and not close to mainline linux. Then once that step is completed, the community (both Armbian and many others) work to incorporate all the custom code into mainline linux where hopefully it will be maintained going forward. That can sometime take years and sometimes it never really happens as the board manufacturers rarely contribute to this (they move on to the next board and don't want to incur any costs to maintain older boards). It also is rare that everything that worked under the vendor kernel will work under mainline (at least not for a long time). And for all of this to occur there needs to be people willing to give of their time to volunteer to do all this as no one financially supports the ongoing maintenance of most SBC boards.

What have you done to "brick it"? Are you running Armbian on the box?

Moved to Community Maintained -> Rockchip. All board specific questions should be posted in the corresponding board specific sections of the forum. For supported boards that is Standard Support -> <CPU Family> -> <Board> for non supported boards that is Community Maintained -> <CPU family>. This is not a board Armbian supports, it is community maintained.

Moved post to the correct sub forum. This is a Community Maintained board.

You would want to add: BUILD_MINIMAL=yes (the default is the non-minimal server build)

The instructions on above (under DIY) should be clearer to explain that. When I looked at this earlier, I was guessing that is what the instructions assumed you needed to do (download that referenced file). Edited the above instructions to clarify.

What you are describing sounds like standard gnome desktop behavior. I don't think all desktops have that same default behavior. You said above you installed xfce desktop not gnome.

Moved to the proper sub forum for a non supported device The OPi5 Pro is not a supported board. It is currently wip - work in process status. Therefore it has no support forum and should be talked about here under staging/community maintained.

These forums are for Armbian not for the discussion of other distributions. It would be more appropriate to post this in a forum dedicated to MiniArch.

You have the 24.5.1 version of kernel headers, but... of the kernel. Thus your headers and kernel don't match. I doubt you will find a 6.6.36 version of the headers, so either down grade your kernel to the version that matches your headers, or use the Armbian build framework to build your own .deb files of both the kernel and headers together so you have a matching version.

Moved post the the appropriate forum.

I deleted your other post as it is just a duplicate of this. Please take the time to research. There is a topic in the fourms for your type of box. That is where your should be posting, and before you post you should read what has already been posted to see if others have already run into what you are seeing. Don't waste other peoples time until you have used the resources available to you.

I'd recommend you post in the master thread for the rk3318 TV boxes in this sub forum.

TV boxes are not supported by Armbian. They are automated builds that are untested. These are 'Community Maintained' which means there is no official maintainer but anyone in the community can submit fixes/changes. The forums are the method of discussing issues.

This is Community Maintained software (not supported by Armbian). So please submit a PR if you would like to see changes. My experience is that ophub just ships a lot of binary code from unknown origins (the dtb is a binary file, you would need to track down the source file (.dts) to submit here as we don't include binary files from unknown origins but build things from source). Also note that the dtb file doesn't need to be inside the /boot/dtb/amlogic directory. To avoid your issue just put it in /boot (and adjust the extlinux.conf accordingly).

So have you tried a current build? Instead of an update from an older build? There is a thread in this forum for this type of box that you should review and likely post questions there.

Note that Armbian doesn't support TV boxes. That.means all Armbian does is provide automated builds with no testing which are created weekly. These boxes are 'Community Maintained' which means support is up to members of the community i.e users like you.

Moved to the correct forum

Note that there are no "official" images for this board. Armbian doesn't support this board. This board is "Community Maintained". Which means that someone at some time had it working and submitted it to the armbian build framework and it gets built weekly automatically. No support or testing is done by Armbian on this. As long as it builds without error it can exist as a Community Maintained board. But note that most community maintained boards have no one actively working with them. Looking at the forum activity on this board, it doesn't seem like much in the last 9 months or so.

That isn't how the armbian build system works. Armbian is basically the u-boot and linux kernel (which are built from sources in the framework) plus an ubuntu/debian userspace. The build process builds the u-boot and kernel packages and then installs them along with the user space packages from ubuntu or debian based on what distribution you are using. There isn't a reason to build other things as they are just installed from repositories. So what you probably want to do is build your custom .deb in your own environment and then install it through the armbian build.

User space upgrades are not supported nor tested. However I've upgraded recently a number of boxes from Focal to Jammy. So generally they do work. You are just using the standard Ubuntu upgrade mechanisms to do this (i.e do-release-upgrade). But note that Ubuntu doesn't support the upgrade from Jammy to Noble yet itself. That support comes with 24.04.1 to be released this summer. I'm waiting for that to do my own upgrades to Noble.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

How armbian-release is created and maintained is outside my area of knowledge. @Igor Is it as simple as copying armbian-image-release to armbian-release to replace the missing file?

armbian-config is a shell script so it is fairly easy to debug and modify with echo statements to print out what is going on. There is currently no log produced. So if you have decent shell scripting skills debugging shouldn't be too hard.