Myron

What was the solution @freezr? It appears the member who helped you has erased their reply.

Is there a file named .... .xsession .... in that user's home directory and if there is, what is the contents of that file? I had the same issue not too long ago and I had this file there with its contents being .... "xfce4-session" After reviewing the logs I removed that file (it was not needed in my case) and the xfce4 desktop started.

If possible, please provide diagnostic logs with ... armbianmonitor -u ... and post the link here. It'll may help others determine what the issue is.

Provide logs with ... armbianmonitor -u ... and post on here. It'll may help others determine what the issue is.

Sorry @jonnyvh. my mistake. Thought you had posted partial diagnostic data. Note to self... "I need to open the attachment and see what's in there before I post." 🙂

Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

Thanks for the signposting and ..... Ouch! ☹️

What I want to do is grab an image of the source SD card and then from the image write to one (or more) SD cards, but knowing that balenaEtcher is a plus. balenaEtcher only seems to allow a direct clone of a SD card.

I want to clone my SBC's SD card onto another card, but I don't have a computer running Linux as the primary OS. Out of the Windows utilities out there which ones will take a exact image of the SD card and then write that exact same image to another card making it a perfect clone of the source?

Looks like I've found a solution. See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/772774/unknown-host-even-though-avahi-is-installed-and-running I installed libnss-mdns and altered the hosts: line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to read: hosts: files mymachines mdns4 [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname resolving mdns names is now working for me.

Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

Have a read of https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Basic-Troubleshooting/ Basic issues why a board will not start is a PSU that does not supply enough voltage and current to the board and also a SD card that's not suitable for use with such a SOC board. What's the maximum rated current and voltage that the PSU can supply to the Rock 3A? What make/manufacturer and speed class is the SD card? Is it a standard SD card or an A1 rated card?

Are you able to connect a Serial to USB adapter to the Orange Pi 4 LTS's serial debug port to see what's happening right at the beginning of the boot-up sequence?

Put https://apt.armbian.com in a web browser and tell us what mirror it uses. When I do this the URL changes to https://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt/. IT looks like the mirror you're being redirected to is experiencing problems and hopefully the system admin of that web server will spot this soon and correct it.

I had the opposite problem. When I tried to sign in as root I got a black screen and the RDP session terminated, but a normal Linux user RDP session is stable. Turns out I had a .xsession file in root's home directory with a command that didn't exist. When I renamed this file to something else then RDP started correctly when using root.

Recently, successfully, upgraded from Ubuntu Focal to Ubuntu Jammy. Does anyone know the correct procedure to sort out the apt-key deprecation issue? I've read apt-key(8), but I don't fully understand what I need to do. I think a Linux guru is needed here. 🙂 ~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. myron@loki:~$ s apt-get update Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://packages.azlux.fr/debian bullseye InRelease Hit:7 https://armbian.github.io/configurator stable InRelease Hit:6 http://armbian.hosthatch.com/apt jammy InRelease Reading package lists... Done W: http://apt.armbian.com/dists/jammy/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.