update & upgrade error/fail

[Grizzly]

06 February 2023  at 17:50, Little Girl wrote:
Re: update & upgrade error/fail (at least in part)

>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?

After the fresh install /etc/apt/preferences was empty
I have since installed Wine(8.1) & WaterFox_G5, (to my supprise VLC was in teh 
minimal install so no need to do that myself) I also removed Snap, so I will 
have to recheck

I spent a few days going mad, as for some reason one of my drives "seems" to 
play with me, at just after boot I can access files, a little later I can see 
them in Files or via ls but they would not do anything i.e

I have a local home search page "BigSearch,htm" that I set as home in WaterFox, 
after a boot it showed fine later it showed page not found (or reverted to 
WaterFox home), When I tried to view the text in BigSearch.htm it reported 
"file not ready" the same if I tried to open via WaterFox

that was not the worst error, I also had my email app on that drive, that would 
only start once but complained the user I was trying to be did not exist, after 
that it did not even start

for now I have moved those files to my /home/user and all works as expected

>>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.

lets hope it does not happen again !!