Following an unintended reboot my Pi5 8GB needed several retries before it booted. It looks like an accumulation of updates piled up and they all hit at once, with some very odd consequences.
The first is that "high power boot" is no longer enabled, though hitting the power button a second time bypasses the error and lets the Pi boot from USB. Config.txt already contains usb_max_current_enable=1 so the prompt to enable it on-screen seems very odd. The voltage on the GPIO power pins seems stable at 5.45 volts.
It's much harder to get along without the Raspberry icon and menu bar, since that makes it hard to start applications in X. It comes on and flickers, icons and all, a few times before vanishing for good.
Does anybody have an idea what might be going on? I found
The machine comes up in command line, so I can log in, but am otherwise fairly clueless.
Thanks for reading and any ideas!
bob prohaska