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  • Stability of kernel updates on Debian 10

    From Sad Clouds@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 24 10:00:02 2021
    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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  • From Ryutaroh Matsumoto@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 25 02:50:01 2021
    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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  • From Sad Clouds@21:1/5 to Ryutaroh Matsumoto on Sun Apr 25 10:10:01 2021
    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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