Rock 5B hung after issueing upgrade command in Debian 11

#1

A clean flashed eMMC module, after boot, did

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot now

Rock 5B would reboot, display flash screen, then nothing but a flashing cursor. - Hung

Re-flashed eMMC module, after boot, did

sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot now

Rock 5B would reboot, display flash screen, then show login screen. - Normal operation

I tried multiple times, always the same behavior.

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#2

“apt-get upgrade” is deprecated, and will never work properly on modern distros. Use “apt upgrade” instead.

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#3

Oh my gosh after reading your post I just figured out why every time I have a clean install I get this issue it did it on eMMC, sd, NVME and over USB.

#4

Interesting, in " Introduction to ROCK 5 Debian", they still showed using ‘apt-get’ command. Anyhow, it didn’t matter, I used ‘apt upgrade’, Rock5B still hung.

#5

Same problem here. Any else with a suggestion?

#6

@Googulator, They literally do the same thing in terms of packages. Apt is just extension of apt-get, not a “whole new logic for updating packages”

#7

As for problem regarding update - i don’t see solutions yet:

So my advice, if you need grahics - use Armbian with Mesa-panfrost

#8

Hi, the Debian image (Bullseye xfce) works fine once I reverted to the FCS one from the web site.

#9

“apt upgrade” is more similar to “apt-get dist-upgrade” than to “apt-get upgrade”

#10

I had the same problem flashing cursor and no GUI after apt upgrade
I solved it by adding radxa public key to repository:

wget -O - apt.radxa.com/bullseye-stable/public.key | sudo apt-key add -

In fact, as soon as I ran an apt update command (before upgrade), I noticed errors relating to the public key for the radxa repository.
Once I had downloaded and added the key, by running an update, I no longer received any errors or warnings, and then running apt upgrade everything went well.
When I restarted I had no more problems.

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