Troubleshooting • [Solved] Zero2W stalls on upgrade - bookworm

I have 2 Zero2Ws and both did the same thing when I upgraded them this morning. I did an and it gets all the way to building the initramfs then halts. These Pis are both headless, so I do not have any console readout to report, but it happened exactly the same way on both of them. The rest of my Pis (3b+,4,5,) all updated correctly and rebooted without issue. One is connected by WiFI and has an official Pi PS (white square) the other one is connected with a USB ethernet dongle and has an older black official PS. Both are running Bookworm and were 'up to date' with apt as of Wednesday. The /var/tmp swap space on all are 100M

I had seen this before last fall with certain updates (chromium was problematic) and was able to get past it when I pulled the SD card from the Zero2W then put it in a 3b+ then repaired the upgrade and was able to finish the update and upgrade. There is another thread which also mentions a similar problem (viewtopic.php?p=2210557&hilit=zero2w+update#p2210557) with the same 'fix' for a filled upgrade of a 2W (swapping SD into another Pi of different model).

When I re-power it and try to fix:Then it hangs requiring a power cycle.

What could it be with the Zero2W that causes this?

Gearhead

Statistics: Posted by gearhead — Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:12 pm

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