update & upgrade error/fail

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>I tried to see "if" the recovery option on boot "may" be able to
>correct the error but even that returned the same error (Well check
>fs aborted, fix broken pkgs gave the pin zero thing)

Interesting.

>>Also, did you look inside it?
>
>I did before deleting it, but it gave (me) no insight, I do remember
>the pin number was -10

Apparently, a negative pin-value will prevent any updates, so Snap
was pretty well shackled:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/75895/how-to-forbid-a-specific-package-to-be-installed

>>sudo apt update
>
>that cmmand is one of the commands that give the error

Ouch.

>I did give up and have re-installed the system, I will check if the
>snapd file is in /etc/apt/preferences

I'm sorry about that. What was the result of the check in the new
system?

>for now I seem to be back to (close to) where I was before the error
>came to visit.

That's always good news.

>I do thank you for the help so far, but not been able to
>update/upgrade and hence install anything new made the system pretty
>useless (to me)

I know the feeling. I'm glad it's at least working again even if the
mystery wasn't fully solved.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.