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Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ?

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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 01:53:15 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    SO many complicating factors these days ! Remember when Linux updates
>    "Just Worked" ???
> 
>    MY case, kinda lucky. MX has a good "custom live ISO" utility and I
>    did the full thing about three weeks ago.
>    I *can* restore my lap to it's previous condition and then do the
>    updates again. MIGHT work.

Strangely, my updates generally 'just work'. The only complete failure was 
EndeavourOS (Arch). A Mint update had problems with dkms and the funky 
Broadcom chip but it reverted to the existing kernel with no problem. Even 
Fedora has went smoothly despite it's very frequent updates. Also I 
usually upgrade to the beta release when it's available. It updates and 
eventually morphs into the release version. I haven't seen a 45 beta yet. 

I just updated MX 25.2. It's a VM so it was a little slow as dkms rebuilt 
quite a few modules for the new 6.12.101 kernel. I did not elect for the 
advanced hardware support kernel as you did. Oh yeah, the VM is kvm/QEMU. 
I purged any memory of VirtualBox including the RPMFusion repos.

Leap 16 has also been well behaved. I won't update it today since one of 
the programs it wants to update is code. I'd manually reverted that to 
1.127 because of an extension problem. When I'm through playing with 
CircuitPython I'll let it go. 

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Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-03 23:05 -0400
  Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-04 06:29 +0000
    Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-05 00:43 -0400
      Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-05 05:50 +0000
  Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-08-04 18:18 +0000
    Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-05 00:19 +0000
      Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-08-06 21:16 +0000
        Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-07 01:53 -0400
          Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-07 19:10 +0000
          Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-08-07 19:50 +0000
            Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-07 22:51 -0400
    Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-05 03:10 +0000
    Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-05 03:14 -0400

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