AaronNGray

Hi @going @Gunjan Gupta, I have five boards from three separate purchases, I have access to 4 of these boards presently. If there is anyway we can identify these boards visually it would be great, although all my boards do seem consistent and have worked with most said to be working images over the last 5 or more years apart from recently. I can put up all the working images I have ever used if that would be helpful. I am up for tests, but would also appreciate detailed instructions on how to build a distro, as I cannot seem to get anything that works using Armbian/build. Also there are issues with the logs, they change Debian 12 Bookworm I believe to journalctl based binary log files. It would be good to have a list of relevant log files to post, if theres something that explains this it would be useful. @going What are you using to gauge system responsiveness ? Armbian_23.10_Bananapim3_bookworm_edge_6.4.10_minimal has been up for 48 hours after being updated, and upgraded, and software reset. Armbian_23.10_Bananapim3_bookworm_edge_6.4.16_minimal boots fine, updates, upgrades fine, software reboot is fine. BTW I have never had any issues with Ethernet on the BananaPi M3.

I don't fully follow ? I tried this a number of times on different hardware both machine and uSDCard's.

sudo apt-get upgrade must have solved it.

Armbian_23.10_Bananapim3_bookworm_edge_6.4.10_minimal - is giving me Russian or Greek on apt-get messages, despite choosing the correct Locale. Its installed okay on a 256GB Samsung uSDCard and seems fine other than the apt messages being in Russian.

@going I try both, using the 'sudo reboot now' is the best method of restarting a machine. I use it remotely on upgrading machines.

@Gunjan - no it's stuck in continuous boot trial and rebooting. Its failing on multiple devices and multiple uSDCards.

Does not seem to build for me on Ubuntu-22.04.3 LTS

It looks like we must have hardware differences. I have a total of 5 BananaPi M3's so have quite an investment. I have run two for over 5 years on two separate phases of Armbian. The older ones upgraded across versions from Jessie to Stretch. Then I did a separate Buster install when Stretch failed to upgrade. Buster then failed and the image would not then upgrade. I will do more tests with the 24.2.0 Bookworm current-6.6.13 on more devices. Also will parallel test the working 23.10 Bookworm edge-6.4.10-minimal.

@going Armbian_23.10_Bananapim3_bookworm_edge_6.4.10_minimal - boots and expands fine, the caps lock light works as well now ! reboots fine. sudo apt-get update works, sudo apt-get upgrade works, and reboots. Armbian_community_24.2.0-trunk.449_Bananapim3_bookworm_current_6.6.13 - boots and expands fine, caps lock light works. sudo reboot now, shuts down, and fails on reboot, power down/up reboot fails too. Attached logs system.journalsystem.journalsystem.journal kern.log syslog system@11efa2ed424246fabfc13bc624702e97-0000000000000001-00060fba61d3372c.journal