Hello, here with a Radxa Rock 5 ITX I experience endless loading at reboot after some system upgrades... But not always. Am I doing something wrong by using the command reboot from ssh ? instead of shutdown and power up ?

In that case the system loads to rescue mode, asking for the root password and even if entered correctly does not identify. All comes back to working state with a shutdown and a reboot.
Notice : I've made a donation to support the team. Please help.

 

 

We had the case on various boards over a couple of years that sometimes warm reboots fail. Since the reason is always individual, hard to tell by heart.

 

Anyway I suggest to extract proper logs from debug uart console. If you don't know what I am talking about: https://debug.armbian.de

Thank you Werner I'll check this, I need to buy the equipement to get the logs, and additional information : this happens when I boot from the m2 socket only, not from the sd card.

Edited March 11, 20251 yr by Fabien Aurejac

To follow up my post, Werner, or anyone else reading this :
My UART adapter was ordered, but the shipping lost its way to me. I have to place an order again.

The situation went better for a time without updating the kernel...
Then I updated to kernel 6.1.99 and the problem reappeared, now I'm stuck in this because I tried another kernel and it did not boot.

For this step, I had to reboot on the SD to the lastest I downloaded at the time of install and installed this version with the root to the nvme, and the bootloader to the SD. It booted, but then after updating to latest, showed no sata anymore.
I downloaded again an image under 6.1.99 kernel it worked, but still no sata.

I then tried the OMV image, but after configuration, modification of the keyboard layout and reboot, root password typed in every combination possible (regarding QWERTY or AZERTY interpretation of the keyboard input) did not work... It's a problem I already encountered while being sure to have typed the password correctly.
I tried also 6.12 images, but no boot (black screen)

Someone please help, I'm ok to pay for support (I already did it, but will be grateful to the one who will help).

Edited April 6, 20251 yr by Fabien Aurejac

All good ! I manage to fix myself my problems, there was several...
I changed the sources to "rolling", and with latest kernel inside it, sata was working again.
I had also several problems configuring samba, reassembling the raid, and so on... All is ok now.
Just a side note, it could be great to develop a GUI to test and set the keyboard at installation, that seems needed (debian does it for example)

And last but not least, when the system fails to load, there a strange behaviour with the password for root, I was always unable to log in.

Edited April 7, 20251 yr by Fabien Aurejac

Regressions happen all the time and not uncommon at all. Some get fixed upstream, some fix itself, some we have to find a fix.

 

1 hour ago, Fabien Aurejac said:

it could be great to develop a GUI to test and set the keyboard at installation

One of thousands of great ideas we'd love it implement but simply can't due to lack of (human) resources. This is why we highly appreciate community involvement.

If I can in the near future make a step forward to join the community, I'll develop it and make a commit. Do you have some recommandations about the way to do it ? Where are the sources for this ?

I'd start reading the existing script on how the first login works behind the scenes: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin