On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM Borden <[email protected]> wrote: > > I logged into my computer today to be greeted with a cascade of crashed app > reports. The few programs that still work appear to have reset to default > settings. At first I thought the issue was with KDE - which it often is - but > when GPG refused to work, I suspected a bigger problem. A cursory review of > journalctl shows a litany of core dumps. The only change I've made to my > system since it was last working last night was to upgrade against Forky. > > I know this is vague, and I haven't followed troubleshooting and debugging > procedures. My question is simply whether this is a known issue with a > pending fix or whether I'm on my own with 1000s of lines of logs to read > through.
I'm not sure about the answers to your question. But if you are having upgrade troubles with testing or sid, you might consider two things. First, boot to a virtual console (ALT+F2, ALT+F3, etc) instead of a windowed environment. Second, use Aptitude to perform the upgrade. I like Aptitude when things go sideways because it seems to have the best solver among the package managers used by Debian. That is, Aptitude can find an upgrade path when other tools cannot, like Apt or Apt-get. Jeff
