The plot thickens...
From here: https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_arm64/images/ , in the directory raspios_arm64-2025-05-07/ I downloaded 2025-05-06-raspios-bookworm-arm64.img.xz (note the date mismatch, though it's probably not truly relevant). Burned that to a new Gigastone card with imager 1.9.6 just as before, even the same USB card reader. This card is working fine--no messed up dpkg/status file, e2fsck -n comes back clean. And apt full-upgrade completes no issues.
I could speculate that the date mismatch above (TZ issue in script?) caused someone to pop out another image from CI/CD to fix it and there's something off with the new image that's causing this... but that's pretty brazen speculation, and seems odd the problem wouldn't be more widespread. That's the part that's confusing me, why are n >1 && n < 1000 people having a reproducible issue?
I haven't yet strictly ruled out the possibility that apt update is messing up the dpkg/status file... I may burn one more copy and mount it before booting it to have a look at the file.
From here: https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_arm64/images/ , in the directory raspios_arm64-2025-05-07/ I downloaded 2025-05-06-raspios-bookworm-arm64.img.xz (note the date mismatch, though it's probably not truly relevant). Burned that to a new Gigastone card with imager 1.9.6 just as before, even the same USB card reader. This card is working fine--no messed up dpkg/status file, e2fsck -n comes back clean. And apt full-upgrade completes no issues.
I could speculate that the date mismatch above (TZ issue in script?) caused someone to pop out another image from CI/CD to fix it and there's something off with the new image that's causing this... but that's pretty brazen speculation, and seems odd the problem wouldn't be more widespread. That's the part that's confusing me, why are n >1 && n < 1000 people having a reproducible issue?
I haven't yet strictly ruled out the possibility that apt update is messing up the dpkg/status file... I may burn one more copy and mount it before booting it to have a look at the file.
Statistics: Posted by SphtKr — Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:13 pm