Pi 4 stuck on apt upgrade at "Removing 'diversion of /boot/kernel.img..."

[Chris Green]

My Pi 4 has got stuck during an upgrade. I just did 'apt update'
followed by 'apt upgrade' (after 'sudo -i') and it went entirely normally until:-

Adding 'diversion of /boot/fixup4x.dat to /usr/share/rpikernelhack/fixup4x.dat by rpikernelhack'
Adding 'diversion of /boot/LICENCE.broadcom to /usr/share/rpikernelhack/LICENCE.broadcom by rpikernelhack'
Unpacking raspberrypi-bootloader (1.20201201-1) over (1.20201022-1) ...
Setting up raspberrypi-kernel (1.20201201-1) ...
Removing 'diversion of /boot/kernel.img to /usr/share/rpikernelhack/kernel.img by rpikernelhack'

... and that's it, stuck at 52% progress.

The Pi is still running, I can ssh into it from another terminal window and
things seem fairly normal but I'm not sure how to progress/finish the upgrade.

This is an early Pi 4 with only 1Gb memory.

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Chris Green
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[Martin Gregorie]

Is there any chance the /boot partition is full?

Don't forget that the code on /boot can double in size during the upgrade:
the original noobs-size /boot on my old 512Mb Pi 2B got full as a result
of a recent update: the kernel was 56MB in a 100MB partition and warnings
that /boot was 99% full were issued.

After that I moved its file system from an 8GB to a 16GB SD card,
increasing the /boot partition to 1GB from the original 100MB and Bob is
now my uncle: it sailed through yesterday's Kernel update without any
problems at all.


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[alister]

On Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:15:07 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

try pressing enter, I have had a couple of upgrades "lockup" waiting for
input, but the prompt did not appear until i pressed enter.



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