Desaster after update

Hello,

yesterday I made a usual dist-upgrade with my netrunner/bullseye/sid kernel 5.9.0-0.bps5-amd64, kde 5.14.5
Today I started the machine again and almost nothing is working!!! I tried to do “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade” again and was told, that there are hundreds of programs and files which are not used anymore. I didn’t made the autoremove-command!!!

The situation is now so that I can’t work with anything. No network, the kde-programs are not working.

What can I do?

Ciao!

Dieter

Can you show me what it has on the autoremove list.
And what is the output of
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade’

Thank you for your reply,

due to the fact that there is no internet-connection possible with this os annymore there is no output for the command sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
and the autoremove-list looks like (sorry, you asked for it)

sudo apt autoremove
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But, as i told before, the most apps and programs are not working anymore.

In the moment I’m working with a very old os. It’s extremly urgent to go back to my OS.

Thank you in advance!

Dieter

You need to get it connected to the internet somehow and try installing the netrunner-desktop package that hopefully will pull in everything you need. I am not sure what happened on your last upgrade.
As you said you upgraded via terminal it should usually show which packages will be installed, upgraded and removed.

thanks for the quick reply,

any idea how to connect the system to the internet again?

And I didn’t updated via terminal. I updated via discover and, as usual, I didn’t paid attention what discover has been doing. Shame on me …

Can you plug in a ethernet cable if wifi is not working?
Also if the network-manager is not starting or connecting to anything you can run the non graphical version of it with the nmtui command. If the network-manager package was not removed that is the best way to get your internet going again.

Hi and thanks for the reply. I’m the network-manager package was removed as well. I tried to connect via nmtui command without any result.
So, I decided to go the long way and installed netrunner again.
Ciao!

Dieter

Hi Pfiff, did you enable sid repos? I just wonder why suddenly so many files were displayed as no longer needed. This would be good to know to think about preventing any future similar situations. Since we use almost all default of debian, it would be one of our packages conflicting in sid, but then sid is potentially possible to hit those dangerous regressions, even in testing sometimes. If you stayed always on stable, it is very weird that this happened.

Sorry, but I don’t know it exactly anymore. But for sure I changed repos and what I know for sure as well I changed the kernel due to some problems.
And with the new installaition of netrunnner I deleted the partition so it’s gone …

Sorry again.

Ciao!

Dieter