Wow, thank you for sharing this! Grumblegrumble have to reinstall my system…
This straight on the back of a thread about flatpak verification and security - a reminder that a lot of the incredible work of a distribution, especially Debian, is a community of people curating packages with care, and not just for how quick they can be made to work together.
Also a highlight for the work toward fully replicatable systems - if I understand right, the exploit here was snuck in in the binary, not in the source code.
I wanted to try a different DE to get things working, but with network manager down I couldn’t install anything else! Tumbleweed already had IceWM, but without any networkmanager control there either.
Course that was before I discovered I didn’t need any internet to finish the job and fix it. I assumed the update completed but broke something, and hoped against hope there’d be a fix issued quickly that I could further update to.
P.S. I assume you mean zypper dup, but perhaps you’re using the new Irish Culinary/Political Linux, and supper DUP is the right command.
Yeah, if I’d known what was going on I could have just switched to VT1 straight away and finished the update. Did the other machine fine by updating from VT1 from the start.
Further to this, my sound stopped working. “No input/output devices detected.”
Turned out if I went to the settings and turned on “show inactive devices”, then changed the Profile from ‘none’ to ‘Analog Stereo Duplex’, it went back to normal and worked. sigh
That’s what I get for a rolling release, I guess. I just hope the friends I set up on Linux Mint don’t get similar issues, since I’m not around to help when things break.