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Armbian: Unprompted shutdowns, likely resolved (but weird) - mew2020 - 09-07-2021

I'm hoping the following may save some fellow Armbian users some grief.

This morning I discovered that my PBP was shut down.  I had been using it for a couple of hours late last night, and I thought I had left it on.

I powered it up and logged in.  The whole GUI appeared:  all the XFCE panels, three workspaces, a maximized terminal window in the first workspace.  But without any input from me, within a minute or so, the shutdown splash screen appeared and then the PBP powered off.

I powered it up again and logged in again.  Same result:  within a minute or so, it shut down.

For the next boot, rather than logging in using the GUI, I switched to a virtual terminal (CTRL-ALT-F1).  At least it did not shut down, so:  progress.

I tried "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" just in case there was some package that had a glitch that had been fixed recently.  Apparently there had been, because I updated, rebooted, and now there are no more unprompted shutdowns (cross fingers, knock wood).

I needed "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade," and the output was:
Quote:The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libllvm11
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libllvm12
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0
5 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 242 MB of additional disk space will be used.
 
This has been my first real scare with Armbian (i.e., for a couple of minutes, "uh, oh -- do I have to reflash the EMMC or possibly even switch to a different distro?")