Hi,

 

  I downloaded and installed v. 5.30-next yesterday - kernel 4.11.4-mvebu. The board apppears to run slightly cooler than with v.5.25 and has been stable.

 

  This morning an apt upgrade to 5.31 was available and I started running the update.

 

Apt upgrade has now been running for about 4 hours, compiling linux-headers-next-mvebu (5.31), with most cpu time going to cc1.  Top is dynamic, with cc1 taking anything from 0% to 100% cpu, so I am guessing that nothing has hung but that header compilation will take a long time on this system.

 

A similar very long linux header update was experienced when I tried to update this system once before. I aborted that update and failed thye next boot, as the kernel was then inconsistent.   I'd like to avoid a similar problem now, but am wondering how long I should expect to wait before giving up and taking remedial action.

 

  I have not had any problems with linux header updates on other ARMbian systems (orangepi plus2e and Pine64+).

 

Any experience/advice?

 

BR.

 

--Marius--

 

 

You can kill the compiler process (switch htop to tree view to be sure what to terminate), this should allow the update to proceed further without bricking the system.

Thanks.  Killed the process. The rest of apt appeared to be finished and I did a new apt upgrade just to be sure. Killed the process again and now am doing a dpkg-reconfigure on the header package, to see if it will compile to conclusion.

headers were updated this morning