Rebooted my laptop and the same thing happened. Long wait, no progress bar. Switched to the console after a while and found a prompt there asking me for the passphrase to decrypt my disk. I was confused. Checking the basics: sudo apt update. Nothing. sudo apt upgrade. "dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem." Ugh!? Did that, will reboot again and see whether that fixes my problem.
Doing that while listening to AGNUS DEI, Sacral Choral Music.
@kensanata keep us posted on your progress. I have never ran into that on upgrade before!
@PresGas Yeah, never ran into this using Debian, either. That's the price to pay for living on the bleeding edge, I guess?
@kensanata What version of Debian is #pureos derived from? I looked at the site and didn't quite get a handle on that.
@PresGas There is a /etc/debian_version which says buster/sid.
@kensanata IIRC buster is testing. Wonder why they are combining test and unstable?
@kensanata you just reminded me to make a backup of my BIOS
@jalcine What do you do, exactly? I'm using Borg Backup to backup /etc and /home, but I keep thinking there should be a more complete backup. Something bootable, I guess? At the time I didn't get a good answer and so I settled on Borg Backup. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-12-24_Borg_Backup
@kensanata I use tarsnap to back up my entire server (pre-encrypted and then tarsnaps encrypts it again). Like anything under / that's not blacklisted.
@kensanata that said, I haven't looked into good options for my laptop. I _could_ also use tarsnap.
@jalcine Interesting. For my server, I use rsync and only backup /home and /etc as well. That usually means that getting everything back up using my notes takes about a day... 😭
@kensanata I might write about my current backup routine (I only know about if/when it fails - it hasn't for two years now!)
Every day is #backup day. Borg Backup! Resistance is futile.