apt dist-upgrade fails on Orange Pi Zero

[Renaud11232]

Hello,

 

I've been running Armbian for a while on an Orange Pi Zero without any issue.

Every now and then I perform an apt update && apt dist-upgrade on that board but today the upgrade process failed with the following error and I'm not sure how to fix it.

renaud@AnetA8:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com focal-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com focal-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com focal-backports InRelease
Hit:5 http://armbian.hosthatch.com/apt focal InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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The following packages will be upgraded:
  armbian-firmware
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,409 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 38016 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../armbian-firmware_22.08.6_all.deb ...
Unpacking armbian-firmware (22.08.6) over (22.08.1) ...
Replacing files in old package linux-firmware (1.187.33) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-firmware_22.08.6_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/board-2.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-firmware_22.08.6_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 

All other packages were successfully upgraded, the only one failing is armbian-firmware.

Here is the output of armbianmonitor -u : http://ix.io/4en4

 

Thanks for any help

[Werner]

You are using VERY old firmware. Try using armbian-config to switch to a newer kernel and then retry upgrading the firmware package.

[Igor]

Remove that file manually and upgrade again.

[Renaud11232]

Thanks for these anwsers,

 

I switched to kernel 5.15.74-sunxi successfully then removed the /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-firmware_22.08.6_all.deb file but that didn't help.

Here is the content of the /lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/ directory :

 

renaud@AnetA8:~$ ls -lah /lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 29 12:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Apr 18  2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May 21 18:10 1.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   71 Jul 26 10:40 amss.bin -> 1.1/WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.9/amss.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   69 Jul 26 10:40 m3.bin -> 1.1/WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.9/m3.bin
renaud@AnetA8:~$ uname -r
5.15.74-sunxi

 

[Renaud11232]

I managed to fix this issue :

 

I turns out hw2.1 was a symlink to hw2.0.

Removing that symlink and recreating the directory fixed the issue.