Failed to boot after update

[magostinelli]

Hello,

i did an update of the system (apt dist-upgrade), and after the system doesn't start anymore.

 

I use internal MMC, so I tryed to use last Armbian buster (Armbian_21.02.3_Helios64_buster_current_5.10.21.img) from sd card and it works.

I mounted the MMC, fsck and finally chrooted into it and did an apt update and dist-upgrade,

 

I atach the console log, the system hangs on Starting Kernel.

 

helios64_20210514.txtFetching info...

[barnumbirr]

Can you try to boot from the SD card again, mount the eMMC and edit the /boot/armbianEnv.txt to increase verbosity (defaults to 1 which means less verbose, maximum value is 7).

Please then post the logs.

[magostinelli]

  On 5/14/2021 at 10:50 AM, barnumbirr said:

Can you try to boot from the SD card again, mount the eMMC and edit the /boot/armbianEnv.txt to increase verbosity (defaults to 1 which means less verbose, maximum value is 7).

Please then post the logs.

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I found the errors! The /boot/armbianEnv.txt was corrupted, I replaced the file using that one from sd card, and then changed the UUID of the roor partition.

[barnumbirr]

Nicely done. Corruption of the armbianEnv.txt file is one of the remaining nagging issues on the Helios64.

I suspect it is linked to the system instability but I've not been able to pinpoint the exact issue so far.

[Werner]

  On 5/14/2021 at 1:40 PM, magostinelli said:

The /boot/armbianEnv.txt was corrupted

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Can you elaborate? Does the file become empty or unreadable?

[Polarisgeek]

When I had it happen to me during an update it added/rewrote some text and added gibberish(special characters).  I was able to edit it to match some of the examples and put in my UUID and it booted right up.  I unfortunately don't have any screen shots or anything to show. 

[magostinelli]

In my case, the file has some configuration for logrotate, and at the end it has some special characters.