So today I got this notice:
and looking at the partial update see this (NVidia uh oh!):
Now I have not had the best of luck with Zorin OS and video stuff.
I'm hoping someone can quell my fears that this partial update is going to cause me endless hours of "fixing" Zorin.
Has anyone else run into this? How worried should I be?
Hi, If you are using a highend nvidia graphics (clue in your current driver being the open nvidia driver) I would not proceed with the proprietary driver install. Now would be a good time to install Timeshift so you can rollback Zorin to an earlier time.
@Aravisian is probably best person to advise on how to prevent this update getting proffered in the future.
Graphics driver aside, if you get other issues where other updates got interrupted (e.g., network connection lost) then the way to resolve broken packages that did not get fully installed is to run the command:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
I would highly recommend switching to the terminal, just so that you have control at your fingertips and verbose output streaming in front of you. Not because you are in danger - so much as to give you peace of mind.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
The reason you are seeing this is most likely because one of your package upgrades either depends on one of the upgrades completing - or because a package must be removed in order to be replaced by the upgraded package.
As you can see, that is not scary.
But the message from the system as the developers wrote it sure looks scary.
@swarfendor437 I did already have TimeShift installed, so I made a backup (good point though).
@Aravisian I ran the command-line update (logged it all), but after a reboot I was stuck at software rendering, so I ran the GUI (which still showed me the partial update warning), but proceeding and rebooting got the GPU working again. I guess the update needed to remove the old driver before the new one could be added back in? Either way, I'm up and running. Thanks!
P.S. New updates say I'm up to date, so that's good. 