Errors after upgrade from openhab 4.x to 5.x

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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  • Setting up openhab (5.0.0-1) …
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/openhab.postinst: 34: /etc/default/openhab: -Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin: not found
    dpkg: error processing package openhab (–configure):
    installed openhab package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openhab-addons:
    openhab-addons depends on openhab; however:
    Package openhab is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package openhab-addons (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
openhab
openhab-addons
Updating FireMotD available updates count …
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
FAILED
2025-08-05_16:15:55_CEST [openHABian] Checking for default openHABian username:password combination… FAILED
2025-08-05_16:15:56_CEST [openHABian] We hope you got what you came for! See you again soon :wink:
what can i do to resolve this trouble?
thanks for help
cg

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Are you running on a 32-bit OS? As mentioned in the [release notes]( criptEngine for language ‘application/vnd.openhab.dsl.rule’ could not be found )

openHABian will refuse to install or upgrade to openHAB 5 when it detects a 32 bit operating system.

Further details can be found at the link.

If you are on 64-bit OS an the upgrade fails, please post the full logs. And please use code fences.

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Openhabian is installed and the os is 64 bit!
uname -m → aarch64
dpkg --print-architecture → arm64
the file os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“12”
VERSION=“12 (bookworm)”
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“Debian -- User Support”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/”

For installation i had use the openhab image!
Thanks for help!

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I don’t know if openhabian-config automatically installs Java 21 or if you have to do that as a separate step. That’s the next thing to try. Install Java 21 through openhabian-config and then try to upgrade openHAB.

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You need to fix that line in that file, probably the quotation marks are in the wrong place

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the line in /etc/default/openhab is the following:
EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS=“-Xms192m -Xmx768m -XX:-TieredCompilation -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1 -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError -Dxtext.qn.interning=true” -Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin

What must i change?

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The closing " needs ton go at the end of the line.

The big question is what added that and why did it do so incorrectly? Is this a file you’ve changed?

Note, please post code, configs, and logs using code fences so he autoformatting applied by the forum and white space is preserved.

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this is the original line i had found, i had no make changes manually!
OK, no anderstand, i will remove the " and move it at the end from this line