jks

Okay, I see what's wrong. Will be fixed in v1.801

Today we're enabling an auto update to v1.711, and thereby on to v1.800, for Debian 8 Kiwi's with admin passwords starting with the letter "i" through "l". If this is successful the next update will be applied to all D8 systems.

What's different with v1.711 is that it preemptively attempts to repair the Debian package system to lessen the chance of the build/update failing. This is based on the experience gained repairing D8 systems by hand over the last several days.

This update will of course not affect systems already updated to v1.8xx.

The image you download to create an SD card for re-flashing a BBG/BBB-based Kiwi-1 or Kiwi-2 has been updated from Debian 11.9 to 11.11 and Kiwi software release v1.690 to v1.800.

Full instructions here: http://kiwisdr.com/info/#id-net-reflash

Yes, this problem can occur anytime in the future a Kiwi first crosses the barrier between pre- and post-v1.8xx. That's the point at which the git repo rebase occurs. So going from v1.699 to v1.8xx qualifies (even if v1.800 itself is skipped).

In your case it sounds like you have a Kiwi at a remote site with automatic updates turned off so you can more carefully control the update schedule (an entirely reasonable thing to do). It would be better if you just let me manually do the update to v1.800 now and save you any potential problems when you're next out there. Just set a temporary admin password and email it to support@kiwisdr.com and I'll be happy to do that.

Okay, these 5 have been fixed. Others are in the queue.

Anyone else, assuming your Kiwi has Internet access, email the link/URL and admin password to support@kiwisdr.com. It can take a couple hours to fix the build depending on various factors.

Some people have asked if they can try fixing this themselves. If you have ssh access to your Kiwi (NB: different from Kiwi admin access) you can try fixing it. Don't ask about the browser procedure to restore admin page access. It's complicated and I don't have time to walk people through it.

Follow the instructions given in the first post of this thread.