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What you need to understand is that whatever money you paid, you paid for the hardware not for software support. So, the hardware vendor does not give you software support. And we are just a bunch of enthusiasts trying to keep our own boards alive. I am sure that you can understand that your understandable nonetheless misguided rant does not necessarily help in making us more enthusiastic. Armbian provides you with some help to maintain your own board yourself. Whenever somebody does so and provides their work back to the community you are in luck and can freeload off of their work. Still doesn't give you the right to make demands and rant. In your case, you are in luck as there is a person donating their expertise and time. Let's see if @NicoD has anything to say about the issue with your board. Buy him a coffee on Paypal or Patreon for the time he already donated to keep YOUR board alive while getting 0 cents from you so far?

I never said it was a Debian issue (you failed to mention which userspace you were running in your original post, btw). The issue is with whereever you got your authelia package from (which you also failed to mention). You also failed to mention what error exactly you are running into. But yes, you are right, Debian will and can do nothing about it. Basically the same is true for Armbian, the symlink is there for a reason and there to stay. You are in the wrong place to get this fixed.

Your best bet is to compile your own image. It's super easy: "git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git;cd build;./compile.sh" https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE

As far as I can tell, Armbian does not support the OrangePi RV2. Where did you get the image from? Or are you really talking about the PC2? RISC or ARM? Big difference.

authelia is not a Debian or Ubuntu package. I'd recommend you complain to whoever you got the package from, I guess. It's the first time the symlink has become an issue as far as I can recall.

should be fixed with https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8980

I think @NicoD meant tasksel.

please DO share what steps you took to get it working for the benefit of the next guy.

You are likely hitting genuine bugs and/or the situation of missing packages. I do not use Cinnamon, so I cannot comment much. Try to see if there is anything relevant in the logs. Check ~/.xsession* files for hints, too. Maybe try a different DE first, set up it to be working and then work on your preferred choice after that. Have a look at APA which is trying to improve the experience of Armbian as an OS, maybe it can help you. Good luck, amigo!

@Igor, supposedly, these images do not boot. Maybe you have a chance to verify on your end.

http://debug.armbian.de

most likely a bunch of packages that shouldn't have been removed were removed alongside, the joys of GUI package management 1) don't be afraid of the command line 2) see if /var/log/dpkg.log gives any hints what is missing What desktop system were you using before? Try to get it back installed. PS: In your current situation, you can reach a log-in console and command line with Ctrl-Alt-F1 PPS: Reinstalling from scratch might be faster.

Alt-F2?

Try pipewire instead of pulseaudio

Thank you for sharing. You might want to have a look at Shrink Backup as well.