Booting Issues

[molino]

I had also exactly these problems. update, then bootloop and no files to downgrade under /var/cache/apt/archives/.
Even if the PineNote hangs in  bootloop, it is possible, at least for me, to log in via ssh!
It was not necessary to use the UART dongle.
I downloaded the file mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb here

Code:

wget https://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/debian/pool/main/m/mutter/mutter-common_47.1-4_all.deb

and pasted it into

Code:

sudo mv mutter-common_47.1-4_all.de /var/cache/apt/archives/

.
Then

Code:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb

and the PineNote immediately switched to desktop mode.
It worked for me. Hope for others too.

[Badgery]

I had this same problem, after doing an update a few days again I was stuck in 'booting....' loop so I followed these steps to get it working.
1. based of these instructions https://pine64.org/documentation/PineNot...ment/UART/  from a linux machine install

Code:

sudo aptitude install minicom

2. Connect to UART dongle to PineNote  (orientation matters, chips facing up) connect the other to a linux machine then:

Code:

minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 1500000

This will open up the minicom terminal, then power on the PineNote and you will see the de-bugging appear in the terminal 

3. Login with the username and password via the minicom terminal in your linux machine and downgrade the package by:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb

Thanks to shom (or whoever figured this out) on the PineNote Matrix channel

A second thank you - I had worked out the problem was with mutter, but not how to fix it.

I decided to take the Note out and give it another try after no success. Getting the same message about mutter

dpkg: error: cannot access archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb': No such file or directory

try this first 

Code:

wget https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20250302T203536Z/pool/main/m/mutter/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb

then repeat 

Code:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb