Needless to say the “repair system” did not work (it has never worked). System has reverted to 6.14-37, but the 6.17-14 kernel and all its garbage are still there. I am assuming “exit status 11” means its a segfault?
I tried manually installing the headers, but no joy. Seems to be a dependency conflict. I timeshifted back to yesterday’s image, and ran a clean and autoremove. I guess I will put updating on hold and try again in a few days.
Likely an issue with proprietary kernel modules.
Had a problem upgrading to 6.17 too. I use aptitude, which gives me the full dpkg output, which was more helpful.. discover should do that as well.
In any case for me the cause was virtualbox-dkms failing to build its modules with the new kernel. So I decided to uninstall virtualbox (didn’t use it for months anyway). An alternative might have been to look for an updated package from oracle.
For more details, you can run sudo pkcon update or (if that gives you the same useless error) sudo apt upgrade in konsole.