OPi5 went (almost) "dead" after an "apt upgrade" (uSD card).

[laurentppol]

Hi there,

I pourchased OPi5 (not preferred OPi5 Pro, because of Armbian lacking support), flashed Debian 24.8.1_bookworm_6.10.6_cinnamon_backported_mesa_desktop, configured (user, switch to static IP, user).

Worked OK.

Now, ssh'ing into showed "113 packages upgrade".

Did "apt upgrade".

Download OK, but when applying apgrade process hung twice:

- once on "configuring libc", had to power off, then restarted (after an apt-get suggested in response to apt upgrade). Upgrade hung second time (no progress on bottom bar for hours, no new ssh session).

- twice was on "configuring udev".

After this, board is almost dead:

- boots to animated Armbian logo,

- then "flash" (the few lines on bootup) "failed" (too shot to see what failed).

- then NO normal (text) bootup messages,

- then blank screen with text cursor in left-upper corner, switching with totally blank screen (but monitor does NOT go to sleep) - graphic mode?

 

I can remove uSD card (good, Samsung U1, 32GB), but what should I look for?

Power seems not be problem, it is on it's own 5V/5A SMPS, heatsinks and fan.

 

Laurent