Hannes

I do ran into the same problem today with my rock-3a running Armbian 24.2.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.6.16-current-rockchip64 It occurred after re-boot of the system because of the banner the message "Please reboot system do to kernel-updated" appeared. After that ethernet (was named "end0") did not come up anymore. When activating using "nmtui" the message comes: "Activation failed. Device could not be prepared for activation ..." (freely translated from German language). journalctl -x gives the following: (armbian-monitor -u already performed) Mar 14 10:51:01 cloud kernel: rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) Mar 14 10:51:01 cloud NetworkManager[745]: <info> [1710409861.7565] device (end0): state change: config -> failed (reason 'config-failed', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Mar 14 10:51:01 cloud NetworkManager[745]: <warn> [1710409861.7579] device (end0): Activation: failed for connection 'Ethernet' Mar 14 10:51:01 cloud NetworkManager[745]: <info> [1710409861.7588] device (end0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') After all I updated the bootloader (using armbian-config) and it luckily resolved the problem ... Thx for reading this. Hope it helps others ...

Thx for your answer, Joekhoobyar. Yes, indeed, there are messages about "held BROKEN packages", but I did not put any packages on hold. Neither 'sudo apt-mark showhold' nor 'sudo apt-mark unhold' shows anything. What to do? I am a little bit of lost. What is the reason for this mismatch? How to get rid of it?

Thx folks for the upgrade instructions. Worked for me until I got this (when running the standard 'apt update && apt upgrade'): The following packages have been kept back: libffi-dev libsigrokdecode4 libssl-dev 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Then it turns out that the system has broken dependencies (or what ever may be the reason). For example if I try to update rock@nextcloud:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt -f install libpython3.11 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: libpython3.11 : Depends: libpython3.11-stdlib (= 3.11.2-6) but 3.11.7-2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. But when I try updating to the required version of "libpython3.11-stdlib" it says that it's already installed: rock@nextcloud:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt -f install libpython3.11-stdlib Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done libpython3.11-stdlib is already the newest version (3.11.7-2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. And this is the case for other libraries, too. So I am not sure whether there is something wrong in gerenal ???!!!??? Info: I already tried cleaning apt and its corresponding /var/lib/apt/ dir several times. Please help ...

Sorry, but it does NOT help. There is only armbian-config launching, loading 58 modules and then it's done. After reboot it says Welcome to Armbian 23.02.2 Bullseye with Linux 6.1.11-rk35xx No end-user support: untested automated build WHAT has exactly to be done. I should -- at least -- expect to be asked what kernel I wanna install or that the messages "untested automated build" disappears.