Hi,

 

couple of month ago I installed Armbian on my Cubietruck. I didn't really use it much, but today I decided to start using it, and obviously the right way to do so is to update to the latest version. So when I started, I had this version on my Cubietruck:

ARMBIAN Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS 3.4.112-sun7i 

I followed Igor's instructions at http://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-update :

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install -f
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove -y

However, I received the following error message after the first instance of "upgrade":

...
Setting up linux-firmware-image-sun7i (5.20) ...
Setting up linux-headers-sun7i (5.20) ...
Compiling headers - please wait ...
Setting up linux-image-sun7i (5.20) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i
Image Name:   Linux kernel
Created:      Fri Oct 21 10:50:31 2016
Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size:    5605960 Bytes = 5474.57 kB = 5.35 MB
Load Address: 40008000
Entry Point:  40008000
Setting up linux-libc-dev:armhf (3.13.0-100.147) ...
Setting up linux-trusty-root-cubietruck (5.16) ...
Setting up vlan (1.9-3ubuntu10.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.4) ...
ln: failed to create hard link ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i.dpkg-bak’ => ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i’: Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i

I decided to run the remaining three commands anyway, but there was nothing to do for them.

 

After a reboot and another update & upgrade (which did not change anything), I checked the version. Now I was on

ARMBIAN Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS 3.4.112-sun7i

I had expected a 16.something version, but maybe I'm getting something wrong here. More importantly however, the system still reports to be running Armbian 5.16, instead of 5.20:

hanjo@cubietruck:~$ cat /etc/armbian-release
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=cubietruck
BOARD_NAME="Cubietruck"
VERSION=5.16
LINUXFAMILY=sun7i
BRANCH=default
ARCH=arm

and there also seems to be some mismatch on the installed packages:

hanjo@cubietruck:~$ dpkg -l | egrep "armbian| linux-"
ii  linux-firmware-image-sun7i            5.20                                 armhf        Linux kernel firmware, version 3.4.112-sun7i
ii  linux-headers-sun7i                   5.20                                 armhf        Linux kernel headers for 3.4.112-sun7i on armhf
ii  linux-image-sun7i                     5.20                                 armhf        Linux kernel, version 3.4.112-sun7i
ii  linux-libc-dev:armhf                  3.13.0-100.147                       armhf        Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii  linux-trusty-root-cubietruck          5.16                                 armhf        Armbian tweaks for trusty on cubietruck (default branch)

Any clue what could be causing this?

 

Thanks a lot

Greetings

Hanjo

http://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/linux-trusty-root-cubietruck/

 

We have v5.20  in the repo ... strange. Try this:

dpkg -r linux-trusty-root-cubietruck
apt-get install linux-trusty-root-cubietruck 

Hi Igor,

 

thanks for your response. Looks like apt does not find the 5.20:

hanjo@cubietruck:~$ sudo dpkg -r linux-trusty-root-cubietruck
(Reading database ... 113745 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-trusty-root-cubietruck (5.16) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.4) ...
ln: failed to create hard link ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i.dpkg-bak’ => ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i’: Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...

hanjo@cubietruck:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-trusty-root-cubietruck
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-trusty-root-cubietruck
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/372 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package linux-trusty-root-cubietruck.
(Reading database ... 113662 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-trusty-root-cubietruck_5.16_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking linux-trusty-root-cubietruck (5.16) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.4) ...
ln: failed to create hard link ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i.dpkg-bak’ => ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i’: Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up linux-trusty-root-cubietruck (5.16) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.4) ...
ln: failed to create hard link ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i.dpkg-bak’ => ‘/boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i’: Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun7i

Can you provide output from 'sudo armbianmonitor -u'?

Sure, see attached.

armhwinfo.log.txt

No, it's a problem with our repository ... Sorry. Will rebuild it later when local noise (kids) goes down.

Hi Igor,

 

after yesterday's release of 5.22 the update / upgrade went fine and I'm on 5.22 now.

 

Thanks for looking into this

 

Greetings

Hanjo