Really? What happened exactly? Hang on. Are you using an Nvidia card? The Nvidia drivers can be finicky sometimes, especially if you have CUDA installed.
I’m pretty sure it was caused by some nvidia driver. It just cut the upgrade process halfway through and in turn damaged nearly everything. Not exactly sure what happened. Either way, my system got so broken I figured it’s easiest to just wipe everything and start from scratch.
I bet there was a relatively quick way to recover it. One thing that’s amazing about Linux is that it’s not locked up like Windows or a Mac.
I’ve practically destroyed systems (entirely my fault) but was still able to fix it.
I even mucked around on a laptop with a LUKS encrypted drive to add a dual boot with another Linux distro. I ended up destroying grub completely. I was back up with both distros working and without a single file lost in 30 minutes.
Maybe. I did some attempts to recover it, like reinstalling all broken packages. But everything I did seemed to break it even more. Any “simple” fix at my skill level would probably take weeks for me to find. So I gave up, backed up all essentials, and then wiped everything. Back up and running much quicker.
I fucked up my Linux installation yesterday by doing apt upgrade.
Same! dnf upgrade tho for me.
Really? What happened exactly? Hang on. Are you using an Nvidia card? The Nvidia drivers can be finicky sometimes, especially if you have CUDA installed.
I’m pretty sure it was caused by some nvidia driver. It just cut the upgrade process halfway through and in turn damaged nearly everything. Not exactly sure what happened. Either way, my system got so broken I figured it’s easiest to just wipe everything and start from scratch.
I bet there was a relatively quick way to recover it. One thing that’s amazing about Linux is that it’s not locked up like Windows or a Mac.
I’ve practically destroyed systems (entirely my fault) but was still able to fix it.
I even mucked around on a laptop with a LUKS encrypted drive to add a dual boot with another Linux distro. I ended up destroying grub completely. I was back up with both distros working and without a single file lost in 30 minutes.
Maybe. I did some attempts to recover it, like reinstalling all broken packages. But everything I did seemed to break it even more. Any “simple” fix at my skill level would probably take weeks for me to find. So I gave up, backed up all essentials, and then wiped everything. Back up and running much quicker.
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I would’ve done it if it was me who created the installation. Did it for the reinstall.