Will sudo pacman -Syu brick the PineTab2?
07-20-2023, 12:58 PM
(07-19-2023, 02:44 PM)moobythegoldensock Wrote:(07-15-2023, 06:21 AM)cgbarros Wrote: Right after I got my PineTab2 one of the first things I did was to run a sudo pacman -Syu to update the system. But after that I bricked the thing. Luckily it comes with the UART board and I saw that the kernel wasn't working (I think it was not finding it? Don't remember exactly).
I reinstalled the factory image and it's all good. But now I'm afraid of updating the system again. Is updating everything with pacman like this not recommended? Anyone had the same issue or I just got unlucky that time?
I had this happen too, after reflash it updated fine. The issue seems to be that sometimes the DE crashes during the update and interrupts it.
Safest way around this is to install tmux, and then run the update in a detached tmux session. But overall it seems to be the luck of the draw.
Good point on doing it in a tmux session. I actually didn't try updating the system yet (last days were crazy busy), but will report once I do it.
