Sadly, since 6.3 Neon has had a continual string of failed updates. Again today, updating to 6.3.2 caused problems. This is the first time since I started using Neon that three updates in a row have failed miserably.
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Discover is still broken and still wont finish checking for updates and just sits there at the end doing nothing.
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Using PKCON reported no errors but after trying to reboot something bricked the BOIS and it would not POST. Not with a soft cold boot (IE via holding the power button for 4 seconds), nor with the reset button. A cold boot was required (full power off and unplug from wall - let all caps drain), at which point it fortunately POSTed again. This is very concerning.
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After POST the system was so broken I had to use timeshift.
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After restoring the system using timeshift, I tied to do an apt dist-upgrade. However that resulted in errors being listed and packages failing to install and the whole thing halting.
A manual update to problem packages succeeded with no errors. There are no dependency issues, so why it barfed I cannot say. After that I did a dist-upgrade again, and this time it succeeded with no errors, but Discover is still just sitting there hung and there is a whole slew of held packages.
I do not know what more I can do to communicate the problems I have found. I have manually filed bug reports and I have all the debug symbols installed for crash reports. I do not know if the issues are with KDE or with the 24.04 base.
I am not sure what to do about the held packages. I suppose I could try to manually update them one at a time, but I would rather know why they are being held first (things like dmeventd, lvm, etc). Back in Neon 5.27 I knew why there were held packages (libpoppler and wine), but I have no idea why these are.
Hopefully the next update will go better.