pdieguez Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago Hello everyone, I use my Orange Pi 5 board to run Open Media Vault with Wireguard installed. But there is a known issue with Wireguard that, when installing it, you have to manually reinstall the correct kernel into the board again, otherwise it won't be able to boot. However, ever since it has been installed, during apt update / apt ugrade of my board, it keeps recognizing the wrong kernel to be updated and changing the symlinks inside the /boot/ folder, rendering the board unbootable. If I see this happening, I can change the symlinks and it works normally after that. However, sometimes the symlinks changes unnoticed and I cannot boot anymore. I have to take the SD Card to another device, chroot into it, and change the links again. How can I prevent this from happening again and let the updates recognize the correct kernel version? In the image attached, you can see that uInitrd is pointing to uInitrd-6.11.5+bpo-arm64-16k, which is incorrect. I have to manually point it to uInitrd-6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx Sometimes, dtb and Image point to the wrong files as well. I have tried holding back linux-image-arm64-16k from being updated with apt hold, and I have also turned off automatic kernel updates inside armbian-config, but there is still something more to be done. I have just run apt update / apt upgrade, and I think that the part that is breaking my boot is the Processing triggers for initramfs-tools, as can be seen logged below: Setting up linux-u-boot-orangepi5-vendor (25.5.1) ... Armbian 'uboot-orangepi5-vendor' for '2017.09-S3e40-P187d-H0b1f-V023f-Bb703-R448a': 'postinst' starting. Armbian 'uboot-orangepi5-vendor' for '2017.09-S3e40-P187d-H0b1f-V023f-Bb703-R448a': 'postinst' finishing. Setting up systemd-sysv (252.38-1~deb12u1) ... Setting up libicu72:arm64 (72.1-3+deb12u1) ... Setting up linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx (25.5.1) ... Armbian 'linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' starting. Armbian: DTB: symlinking /boot/dtb to /boot/dtb-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx... 'dtb' -> 'dtb-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx' Armbian 'linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' finishing. Setting up armbian-firmware-full (25.5.1) ... Setting up python3-ruamel.yaml.clib:arm64 (0.2.7-1+b2) ... Setting up libnss-systemd:arm64 (252.38-1~deb12u1) ... Setting up linux-image-vendor-rk35xx (25.5.1) ... Armbian 'linux-image-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' starting. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/regulatory.db for built-in driver cfg80211 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/regulatory.db.p7s for built-in driver cfg80211 update-initramfs: Armbian: Converting to u-boot format: /boot/uInitrd-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx Image Name: uInitrd Created: Sun Jul 20 10:39:28 2025 Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 13880399 Bytes = 13555.08 KiB = 13.24 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 update-initramfs: Armbian: Symlinking /boot/uInitrd-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx to /boot/uInitrd '/boot/uInitrd' -> 'uInitrd-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx' update-initramfs: Armbian: done. Remove unused generated file: /boot/uInitrd-6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx Remove unused generated file: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx Armbian: update last-installed kernel symlink to 'Image'... '/boot/Image' -> 'vmlinuz-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx' Armbian: Debian compat: linux-update-symlinks install 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx boot/vmlinuz-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx Armbian 'linux-image-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' finishing. Setting up linux-headers-vendor-rk35xx (25.5.1) ... Armbian 'linux-headers-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' starting. Configuring kernel-headers (6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx) - please wait ... HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/confdata.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/expr.o LEX scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c YACC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch] HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/menu.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/symbol.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/util.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf # # configuration written to .config # Compiling kernel-headers scripts (6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx) using 8 CPUs - please wait ... SYNC include/config/auto.conf.cmd HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/flattree.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/fstree.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/data.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/livetree.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/treesource.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/srcpos.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/checks.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/util.o LEX scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c YACC scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.[ch] HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_wip.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_sw.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_rw.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_strerror.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_addresses.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/fdtoverlay.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.o HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/dtc/fdtoverlay HOSTLD scripts/dtc/dtc HOSTCC scripts/resource_tool HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms HOSTCC scripts/sorttable HOSTCC scripts/asn1_compiler HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o YACC scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.[ch] HOSTCC scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders HOSTCC scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp LEX scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.o HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.o HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms Compiling kernel-headers scripts/mod (6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx) using 8 CPUs - please wait ... CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig CC scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o UPD scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost MODPOST scripts/mod/Module.symvers Done compiling kernel-headers (6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx). Done compiling kernel-headers tools (6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx). Armbian 'linux-headers-vendor-rk35xx' for '6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx': 'postinst' finishing. Setting up armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-vendor (25.5.1) ... Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-vendor' for '1-PC5315-V4064-H21c6-B1e5d-R756d': 'postinst' starting. Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-vendor' for '1-PC5315-V4064-H21c6-B1e5d-R756d': 'postinst' finishing. (...) Processing system modifications ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142+deb12u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.11.5+bpo-arm64-16k update-initramfs: Armbian: Converting to u-boot format: /boot/uInitrd-6.11.5+bpo-arm64-16k Image Name: uInitrd Created: Sun Jul 20 10:43:32 2025 Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 54963626 Bytes = 53675.42 KiB = 52.42 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 update-initramfs: Armbian: Symlinking /boot/uInitrd-6.11.5+bpo-arm64-16k to /boot/uInitrd '/boot/uInitrd' -> 'uInitrd-6.11.5+bpo-arm64-16k' update-initramfs: Armbian: done. Any help appreciated. Thank you all 0 Quote
Werner Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago There is no need to install the "wireguard" package from upstream which, as you noticed, has a dependency to Debian kernel which obviously fails to boot. Since Wireguard is shipped by default with every Armbian image, all you need are the userspace tools which are in the "wireguard-tools" package which you can install with "--no-install-recommends" to avoid useless packages installed via soft dependency. 0 Quote
pdieguez Posted 3 hours ago Author Posted 3 hours ago Well, since it is already installed and working as expected, besides this issue of the my post above, what are my options? What could I do to fix this? 0 Quote
SteeMan Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago You will have to uninstall the upstream wireguard as that will remove the dependancy on the non-armbian kernel. 0 Quote
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