Blueos Broken After Apt Upgrade

Hi,

I am using a Raspberry Pi 4 flashed with blueos 1.2. I wanted to do systems upgrade so I did. sudo apt update and sudo upgrade. After that I rebooted. However the device got stuck in an never ending loop and didn’t boot ever again. I re-flashed a brand new blueos 1.2 version to the same sd card and it started working again.

Can I not upgrade while using the blueos software or something?

Hi @ufocet,

Apparently recent kernel versions (which apt upgrade automatically installs) automatically load the aarch64 architecture by default on Raspberry Pi ≥4, which can then break some armv7 applications.

For some context, this was apparently an intentional design decision by Raspberry Pi, but because it’s behaviour we didn’t expect or know it’s not prepared for in the current BlueOS images. We are discussing it for future ones though.

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