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fussing about duplicate post, yes, same problem, different but identical machine.  I have several of these bpi-m5's in service here, And its happened several times while I have reached the age of 90 where short term memory is only weeks.
 
This then. with your link to systemd stuff, is bad code you inherited, blindly. My solution to that was/is to make hostname immutable after editing it.  Much simpler than reading thru half a gigabyte of purposely opaque docs looking for clues.
 
With the advent of led backlighting for monitor screens, CRT screens no longer get burnt in.  So one thing badly needed is a bright red, much bigger mouse pointer that moves at about 1/10 th of its present speed, and an easy way to totally disable screen and mouse blanking. On a 3d printer, they are both a hindrance, adding 10 to 30 seconds to taking action when a printer malfunctions.   And because I use this OS heavily, I also donate a smallish bit of my SS income to your cause on a monthly basis.  Thank you Igor.

up all night, finally got it working. list of stuff I did: download latest 2505 bookworm-xfce and reburn the u-us card 3 times. copied 40 entry /etc/hosts file from working machine. edit /etc/hostname to change it to unique name amanda, then make it immutable as that did not survive a reboot. rm 10-* in etc/netplan, rename armbian.yaml to 10-armbian.yam editing it as needed, and edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to make network setup start as "hostname files dns" rebooting after each stage. So hostname now stays at amanda, and nsswitch.conf works as ordered. I can ping yahoo.com in addition to my other local machines and have now updated 208 pkgs. rebooted looks ok. Now I can get back to making a 20T lvm out of 5 4T SSD's,  But first some breakfast and a shot of insulin, and a nap while the local weather settles, its poured piss out of a cowbarn boot most of the night.  Thank you for the links, they were educational.

solved: took an hour to get it right. yaml is a picky bitch about format but its working.  apt upgrading now.Thank you Igor.

There was a time, 45 years ago when I was carving code for an rca 1802 with nothing but the rca programmers manual and a hex editor in a cosmac super elf, when I would have been in hog heaven at the prospect of such an offer But now I'm 88 and have mechanical things in my heart to keep my diabetic ticker running & keeping me going.  So the info traded would likely be from you to me, which doesn't pay your net bills However, there one law no one can break, TANSTAAFL. And I don't do business with paypal since their delays in approving an ebay purchase 20 years ago cost the owner of the tv station I was at, playing consulting engineer ar the time, about $50,000  in lost revenue, Rig your donation page to take my mastercard and you will see a donation as soon as I discover I can use one of my cards to pay w/o having to move it thru paypal.
 
In the meantime Igor, take care and stay well.
Cheers, <gheskett@shentel.net>

There was a time, 45 years ago when I was carving code for an rca 1802 with nothing but the rca programmers manual and a hex editor in a cosmac super elf, when I would have been in hog heaven at the prospect of such an offer But now I'm 88 and have mechanical things in my heart to keep my diabetic ticker running & keeping me going.  So the info traded would likely be from you to me, which doesn't pay your net bills However, there one law no one can break, TANSTAAFL. And I don't do business with paypal since their delays in approving an ebay purchase 20 years ago cost the owner of the tv station I was at, playing consulting engineer ar the time, about $50,000  in lost revenue, Rig your donation page to take my mastercard and you will see a donation as soon as I discover I can use one of my cards to pay w/o having to move it thru paypal.
 
In the meantime Igor, take care and stay well.
Cheers, <gheskett@shentel.net>

I'm an id10t.  call in the St Bernards and drink the whisky yourselves.  It was the .config file it uses to make flash. Its not a pure text file. Blowing it away and doing a fresh make menuconfig fixed it
 
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I'm an id10t.  call in the St Bernards and drink the whisky yourselves.  It was the .config file it uses to make flash. Its not a pure text file. Blowing it away and doing a fresh make menuconfig fixed it
 
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