Troubleshooting • Re: Brand new install corrupted on update

Last ditch attempt with dd:
https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspi ... ite.img.xz

I used this download and run in a container on my ARM64 computer to let it do something meaningful/testing after reboot with new kernel and bootloader. An extra handful of things failed in addition to normal DebianTrixie installation, all are add-ons from RPL since 2025-08-09.

I just did unxz the image, loopmounted rootfs and wiped rootfs password (passwd -d root --root $(pwd)/<rootfs mountpoint>) . At container start (systemd-nspawn -bD <rootfs mountpoint> ), I saw "Completed socket interaction ... " messages, someone else in some other topic mentioned and was also showstopper.

I have run 'Ubuntu18 server image' 5 years ago on RPI4, so I learned my lessons. Not to become an Ubuntu or RPL guinea-pig again so:I also saw the kernel cmdline.txt contains 'resize', that is another PITA if you plan to do more with your storage device than just let it occupied by a rootfs. Of course in container it won't work. But it will if real boot. So I would remove that as well, I at least changed that cmdline a lot when I did run trixie nightly test images (was before netplan.io / NM problems).
After reboot, still in container as I have no-plans to use this image for real, then no "Completed socket interaction ... " anymore

Another thing is that when you enable ssh (via normal systemctl enable --now ssh) you see an extra warning that user is not configured. It is from userconf-pi or so package that has a message textfile in /etc/ssh
Purge that package and then no issues anymore.

Statistics: Posted by redvli — Tue Dec 23, 2025 10:26 am

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