update & upgrade error/fail
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 22:50:33 UTC 2023
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.
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