Re: Stability of kernel updates on Debian 10
Thanks for the info, I was booting from USB and installing new versions
of initramfs-tools packages from bullseye testing repo resolved the
issue. Maybe initramfs-tools should be in the buster-backports.
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 09:40:22 +0900 (JST)
Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@ict.e.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi Sad,
>
> If you are booting RPi from USB, the reason of failure is probably
> https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/41
>
> In such a case, upgrading initramfs-tools to 0.140 should fix the
> symptom.
>
> Best regards, Ryutaroh
>
> From: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com>
> Subject: Stability of kernel updates on Debian 10
> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:53:37 +0100
>
> > Hi, this is the first time I'm trying Debian on ARM and got an issue
> > after installing updates.
> >
> > I installed Debian 10 on RPi 4 (4GB), hoping updates would be stable
> > enough -
> > https://raspi.debian.net/verified/20210210_raspi_4_buster.img.xz
> >
> > Ran "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" and now the kernel hangs
> > half-way through booting. Is this a known issue and also, do updates
> > get tested at all for RPi before they are released?
> >
> > The following packages got updated:
> >
> > root@rpi4-20210210:/etc/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.5-arm64
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > base-files debian-archive-keyring firmware-brcm80211 iputils-ping
> > libbsd0 libdns-export1104 libisc-export1100 libpam-systemd
> > libpython3.7-minimal libpython3.7-stdlib libssl1.1 libsystemd0
> > libudev1 libzstd1 linux-image-arm64 python3.7 python3.7-minimal
> > raspi-firmware systemd systemd-sysv udev wpasupplicant 22 upgraded,
> > 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 68.5
> > MB of archives. After this operation, 259 MB of additional disk
> > space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> >
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