Broken boot after update

1829475

I've just updated my system (with sudo eopkg up) after months without updating, because I was using a different machine.

Upon rebooting my laptop, Solus doesn't start anymore. I used the command line try rolling back the update, but it doesn't work. I type yes in response to Do you want to continue?, and after a few packages are downloaded I get the following error:

System error. Program terminated.
Repo item python-urlgrabber not found

Any help would be most appreciated!

infinitymdm

1829475 Do you happen to have an Nvidia graphics card? If so, I wonder if this is your issue: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/8391-psa-for-users-of-older-nvidia-cards

1829475

I do have an Nvidia graphics card, but this is a laptop and I don't think it has any of these cards. I suspect it's a python 2 vs python 3 issue, but not sure how to solve it.

1829475

I think the problem might be that eopkg is using python 2 instead of python 3?

When I try manually downloading python-urlgrabber from Solus servers with wget and installing it with eopkg, I get the following error:

System error. Program terminated.
'Install' object has no attribute 'old_files'

The debug shows that this error is thrown by python 2.

brent

1829475 if rollback was unsuccessful then you didn't roll back far enough? That's if you are right about eopkg (2 vs 3).

edit: even if you find the sweet spot to roll back to...you are still faced with a gigantic update. I don't know if anyone's advice would be update incrementally at that point. if you can't then fresh install. you can rescue what files you need with live .iso

1829475

brent If I try rolling back further I get the same error about python-urlgrabber.

brent

1829475 gotcha. if a package is deprecated the rollback can't work in most instances (happened to me too).

brent

your hunch is correct (2 vs 3):https://dev.getsol.us/T8207 *note urlgrabber's conversion midpage

even if you wrangled an old v2 urlgrabber somewhere, and installed, it would probably be greek to the packages it deps from/of.

don't see a way out of this but will bow out now since I'm at end of my own knowlege. be curious and happy if you did get some 'first try this' 'then try this' responses.