Posts tagged updates

Guix is a rolling release distro. Another well known rolling release distro is Arch Linux. In Arch, you are expected to frequently do system updates. Partial updates are not supported. In my exper...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

My system occasionally has an issue that looks like this: I run pacman -Syu Many things get updated Many GUI apps (including all display managers and Xorg) start refusing to run and throw up O...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

Whenever I do a big system update, OpenGL stops working until the next reboot. This also prevent OpenGL apps from launching. Example: $ glxgears X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer par...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates". What are phased updates, any...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭

Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS) When I run sudo apt update, apt flags libvkd3d1 and libvkd3d1:i386 as upgradable, but sudo apt upgrade does nothing and reports tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Darth_Muldoon‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭