nanopi R3S armbian noble upgrade breaks boot

[nan0r]

Hello there !

- nanopi R3S 2GB ram / 32 GB SD card and 32GB MMC here.

- Image running: Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r3s-lts_noble_current_6.12.33

 

An upgrade (armbian-upgrade or apt-get upgrade), both on SD card or MMC, breaks boot of the system, reboot or cold start fails, stuck in system red-light.
Both SD or MMC boot at broken. Need to reflash the SD and boot + reinstall.

See attached some logs.

 

Thanks !
nan0r

 

r3s-armbian-apt-upgrade.log r3s-armbian-armbian-upgrade.log

[Werner]

How to debug boot issues: https://debug.armbian.de

[Werner]

Cannot reproduce. Also R3S LTS /w 2G memory and eMMC.

apt update && apt upgrade went through.

Reboot just fine.

 

https://paste.armbian.com/usakitotak

[c0rnelius]

According to ur log. It's pulling down an older kernel. This kernel does not have the DTB required so it's failing to boot.

 

After purging the kernel on the current IMG available and installing the kernel from apt.

https://paste.armbian.com/orokufexik

 

The result is a missing DTB.

root@nanopi-r3s-lts:~# ls /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3566-nanopi-*
/boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3566-nanopi-r3s.dtb

 

[c0rnelius]

You could attempt to recover ur current install by adding the required DTB to the SDCARD and see if the unit boots. Once booted, mount the eMMC and again copy the DTB to the required dir.

DTB DIR: /boot/dtb/rockchip/

 

 

rk3566-nanopi-r3s-lts.dtb

[Igor]

Packages are in the update process - few hours from now it will be ok.

 

1 hour ago, Werner said:

Cannot reproduce

It fails only on first images, which were avail for few days.

[nan0r]

Ok, thanks all for your feedback. 
I will wait a few hours and try an apt update & apt upgrade, and let you know.

[nan0r]

Or should I download a new .img image and re-flash ?

[Igor]

1 minute ago, nan0r said:

Or should I download a new .img image and re-flash ?

If you plan to start from scratch and you don't want to wait hours until repository is updated, yes, rather download and use latest image. Upcoming fix will solve this problem for everyone that still use old image.

[nan0r]

Works with an apt update && upgrade. missing DTB is present, and boots ok.

Thank you for the fast fix team.