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You forgot to mention a very important caveat, in that all filesystems on that device sda should be unmounted when you dd (BTW, pv is cooler than dd for this). That means, you have to boot off a different device. "sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda | xz -v armbian_odroidc4_11_01_2025.img.xz" gets you the desired compression in one go. | is called a pipe.

so, you are good now?

Hello and thank you for your problem report. You are absolutely spot on, no worries! Your board is community maintained status. I would advise you to try and contact Chris, the listed maintainer of this board and see if you guys can pinpoint the root cause of the problem and provide a fix we can incorporate via a PR.

not sure, but sounds like a boot order issue? @meco, I believe you are the maintainer for this board, aren't you?

Are you twwn on github, @tast ky? As mentioned in the bug tracker, you need to try a different image. Please keep the discussion of run-time issues in the forum. This is where run-time bug triage happens. Until the time one can essentially make a PR with a clear code fix, the forum is where we discuss run-time problems.

I'd say try flashing again with a different image, possibly one that worked in one of your other boards. Verify the download and the flash process with checksums.

Yes, your list of questions is a bit long (understatement) and as such comes off demanding. I would say armbian or an SBC is not for you if you require a great amount of handholding and that's the vibe I am getting from your laundry list of questions for everything under the sun. I guess you want to be thorough before taking the plunge, but you need to take armbian with a different attitude, I guess; be happy when it runs, get down to help fixing it when it doesn't. We are NOT selling you a product.

please provide the output of "apt policy armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b" and "sudo cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/*"

If you can still return the item for a refund, go ahead and do so. If you can still leave a bad review for this bad seller, go ahead and do so. This person has quite the gall to take your money but send you to us for the costly support. Buy cheap, buy twice.

Hello and welcome to the Armbian community. I have a Banana Pi M2+ that I use as a small 24/7 home server.

I am not entirely sure if those sensors are always accurate. In the case of my BPi M2+, I have some serious doubts.

wfm

I don't have time to work on this right away, so to make sure this does not fall off the radar, I opened a ticket in the tracker.

OK That would be called regression and should be analysed for a fix moving forward. Specifically looking for an older release as a "solution" still seems misguided and should only be done to bisect not as a kind of permanent solution.

OK what makes you think you got hacked?

No, Armbian has not become a total nightmare. But your posting all over the place, in several threads here and even Ubuntu ustream trackers with a bunch of unsubstantiated and obviously nonsensical claims IS absolutely a nightmare. PLEASE STOP! You make bogus claims faster than anybody can look into them. What made you think this was related to postgres? What makes you think Ubuntu downgraded their Gnome in Noble? Slow down, take a deep breath and stop being all over the place.

You do have a mmcblk0, why do you think there should be a mmcblk1?

@Igor Is this something that Armbian can add automatically for a board? Maybe that it did in the past?

Thank you for your generous offer, @coroner21. I am interested and would love to use this unit to keep it supported in Armbian Core. My goal would be to help keep it at standard supported status. I was already able to lift the BPi M2+ from community to standard support status. I have sent you a PM.

Thank you for sharing your success story for the benefit of everybody.

I cannot verify your claim that Ubuntu "reverted" to Gnome v44. Noble has v44 indeed. v46 is not anywhere in a Ubuntu release so my guess is you shot yourself in the foot with some random PPA or whatever repo out there. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-gnome3 There is no shortage of boards out in the wild, nobody would think that. What there is, is a shortage of people willing to fund development, be it users or companies. Big shout out to those who do and to our volunteer devs, thank you!

Thank you for your work and I'm happy you fixed it for your installation. It would be good to have this be incorporated into Armbian itself.

I would not expect an older release to run cooler.

Thank you for confirming, @SteeMan. I had the feeling this was a TV box but could not be 100% certain without your expertise.

Hello Petersonn, hope you will enjoy your Armbian time!