Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ? Date: 7 Aug 2026 19:10:29 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <114tvid$2iv3s$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Uj4PAgpFFFGdVGy3mpJQeAGZJZYIXyNwPWveqf8RSJMF/0TyQM Cancel-Lock: sha1:YaU+DNCVnhvofFoV4WAWSJyJqkg= sha256:MmoLIVqI/Z9SWyRYQZ/4T0mM+HQQUDHYViBZkch03nc= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89703 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.