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

[ozacas]

Hi,

 

There is a lot going on there - lets try to divide it up into smaller, more manageable pieces:

 

• Please report armbianmonitor -u results here so we can see a wide range of performance monitoring and debug results
   
• when the box "hangs" can you login to it anymore via another ssh connection? or is it completely non-responsive until you power cycle? does it recover automatically? are you able to connect a keyboard/monitor and login that way?
   
• libc is a very important component - it may have been corrupted by powering off just as it was being configured resulting in further unintended consequences. May need to reinstall
   
• how long was the hang? some downloads can take quite many minutes to fetch.  A network issue could be a culprit here.
   
• If it hangs again, running dmesg as superuser, just after it starts to hang, can yield valuable information about problems

 

hope this helps,

[laurentppol]

1). CAN'T do armbianmonitor as I can't login.

2). no ssh, black screen

3). I know libc is VERY important, but if it is corrupted, how to recover?

4). during update I left box for hours before concluding "hung" and power off.

5). no dmesg,, can't login.

 

Have only copy of root filesystem on my laptop's disk.

[Werner]

Get an USB UART adapter to attach serial console. Otherwise debugging is somewhere between hard and impossible

https://debug.armbian.de

[laurentppol]

Ok, what would be serial parameters? (speed, bits, parity, 115200. 8N1?)

[Werner]

1.5Mbaud, everything else default

[laurentppol]

Tried this setting with PL2303 converter and I am getting garbage in minicom.

Should I buy another (which chip based?)?

[Werner]

Check the video, there are a few mentions of good uart chips. I don't remember.

[laurentppol]

Which video?

[Werner]

On 11/8/2024 at 9:01 AM, Werner said:

https://debug.armbian.de

 

[laurentppol]

OK, You suggest FTDI, will buy one.

 

Now trying to "apt upgrade" on 28.8.1 with 6.1.75(43) kernel. Will describe what I did and results in other (mPCIe OrangePi5) thread.

[laurentppol]

OK - with an FTDI converter I get "normal" (except national chars) output / input in minicom.

Will use if board gets lost w/o HDMI video. (maybe trying to boot RT kernel?).

 

Bit apt upgrade this time was OK (maybe because I froze kernel before?).

 

Thanks @Werner.