Thanks for the reply. Obviously, it's not bricked, but I lost everything, including the dd backup I saved weekly on external storage, which for some reason got corrupted this time. If it hadn’t, I would've rolled back. It's still usable, yes, but I have to reinstall everything, so technically no, it's not bricked, but it's unusable, and I’ve lost almost a year of configuration.Probably not 'bricked.'
At least, not in my understanding of that slang, which I take to mean something like: "hardware that is rendered non-functional in such a way that recovery via software can not restore the use of the device. "
If you can use your RPi[5] after putting a fresh image onto its bootable medium then it isn't 'bricked' by my use of the term.
There does seem to be an issue around your experience of a routine OS upgrade rendering that OS installation unusable.
'Usual suspects ' to be eliminated include the microSD card and the Power Supply.
Oh, and run the RPI[5] In its ex-factory configuration, with no Overclocking...
In fact I'm using the Raspberry Pi OS Lite, installed through the Raspberry Pi Imager from Windows. The image flashes correctly, it connects to the wireless network without issue, and SSH works fine. However, as soon as I run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade or sudo apt dist-upgrade and reboot, I lose access, sometimes it doesn't even ping.Well, it seems like it's probably one of two things. Either there's a problematic update floating around in the APT repositories (not impossible, but also not particularly common/likely); or there's something you are doing in "installed only the bare minimum (just setting up SSH and the network)" which is causing the update to misbehave. Maybe describe your bare minimum steps a little bit, in case there's something problematic that someone can spot for you. If you just install the OS image (with SSH enabled and username and password configured by the imaging utility), update (sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade), and reboot, without doing anything else, does it still have a problem? You might already be doing that, but some people have more expansive definitions of "bare minimum", so that's why I'm suggesting it.
Make sure you are using one of the July 4th 2024 Bookworm images from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/, in case you are hitting a bug that's already been fixed. Since you are running headless, you could try the Lite variant of the OS, if you are not already using that, reducing the number of things which could be causing an issue; even if you want the standard or full OS, it could be a useful diagnostic point to see if the issue exists with Lite.
One other possibility is a counterfeit SD card. A freshly imaged card will have everything written to the start of the card, which might fit into the real card size, but the running OS could be writing beyond the end of the storage and corrupting the install.
Even the safe shutdown button on the back of the Raspberry stops working. After more than five reflashes, I managed to keep it somewhat stable, and I was even able to install the software I'm working on, which runs fine. I've also installed several containers, and everything was normal. But when I tried to download a heavier container (I think it was over 1GB), I lost complete access again. I tried pressing the safe shutdown button and nothing, so I had to do a hard reset, and now it won't boot as usual.
I still need to get a micro-HDMI adapter, keyboard, and mouse to see what shows up on the screen... The 128GB microSD card is original. I bought a Kingston directly from Amazon (sold by Amazon) in October of last year, and it’s been working perfectly until now. I've also tried switching the microSD card, but the result is the same. The Raspberry Pi 5 is well taken care of, housed inside an acrylic case with an Ice Tower cooler, so it's impossible for something to have been damaged due to mishandling... I need at least wireguard VPN working properly to be able to work from the office.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the DC Adapter is the official DC Adapter for the Pi5 too.
Thank you so much for the reply
Statistics: Posted by Surce — Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:09 pm