How to update Pop! OS without breaking drivers and PS4 specific adaptions?

modbus4

Dear community,

it is clear that an operating system without updates poses a huge security threat over time.

My question is basically what the title says:
How to update Pop! OS - dependencies and system files (I have the newest distro provided by noob404) - without breaking drivers (e.g. mesa) and PS4 specific adaptions?

Do I have to mark and hold specific packages with apt?
Which ones?

If you could answer with a code that I can paste into the terminal, I would be tremendously thankful.

Cheers,
Modbus4

noob404

Try this sudo apt-mark hold *mesa* xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu* libdrm* Haven't personally tried this, but, do remember hold not helping as much when I tried it a few months ago. Lmk how it goes.

Diov

I tried what noob404 recommended on a fresh version of popos from this site. On reboot the login screen was graphically messed up and looked "solarized/polarized". I was able to log in and the graphic issue was fine on the desktop BUT i couldn't load any websites because certificates had the wrong date.

During the update I was keeping an eye on the terminal. It failed at all initram updates.

My next install i am going to try ~_this.

run to get kernal version;

uname -r

then with output info run a hold on your kernel;

sudo apt-mark hold 4.10.0-27-generic

This should give an output of the what it put on hold.

then ill run

sudo apt-mark hold mesa* xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu* libdrm*

I think this will help with the issues i had.~~

edit-- tried and it didnt find anything to hold;
$ sudo apt-mark hold 5.15.15-02378-g999e4d75141f-dirty E: Unable to locate package 5.15.15-02378-g999e4d75141f-dirty E: Couldn't find any package by glob '5.15.15-02378-g999e4d75141f-dirty' E: Couldn't find any package by regex '5.15.15-02378-g999e4d75141f-dirty' E: No packages found
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I've been also looking at Modded Warefares Fedora update line;

sudo dnf update -x kernel,mesa,libdrm*,xorg-11-drv-a

I'm not sure how it translates to Ubuntu based distros though.

....going to try sudo apt-mark hold mesa* xserver-xorg-video* libdrm* xserver* xorg* kernel* linux-firmware*

watching the terminal....this explains my time/certificate issue from my first attempt...

"Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:      Tue Mar  7 20:44:51 EST 2023.
Universal Time is now:  Wed Mar  8 01:44:51 UTC 2023.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it."

It's doing the initram thing again.
Preparing to unpack .../gnome-shell-extension-system76-power_2.0.6~1661535648~22.04~1ecbf32_all.deb ... Unpacking gnome-shell-extension-system76-power (2.0.6~1661535648~22.04~1ecbf32) over (2.0.3~1647894024~22.04~ca24c83) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu13.1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.17.5-76051705-generic W: Couldn't identify type of root file system for fsck hook W: mkconf: MD subsystem is not loaded, thus I cannot scan for arrays. W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate temporary mdadm.conf file.

noob404

Diov The initram thing doesn't matter. BTW, try this hold command on a new installation - sudo apt-mark hold mesa* xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu* libdrm*

Diov

noob404

Alright that makes more sense now that I know where the date and time issue came from.

For anyone ones future interest... I saw this (below) during my last update and believe it's why the date and time and ssl certificates got screwed up. I haven't tried it yet... And I did see another thread where you posted a fox for date and time issues. I'll try this one first.

"Current default time zone: 'America/New_York' Local time is now: Tue Mar 7 20:44:51 EST 2023. Universal Time is now: Wed Mar 8 01:44:51 UTC 2023. Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it."

I'll probably try this tonight and then unhold the unnecessary packed I put on hold and run what you posted and update.

These updates are killing me! Takes like 2 hours for me to update on my amazing modern Xfinity slave-wage created, greedy corperate Nazi sucking monthly income making American connection that gets dossed by the American maga/bloods/gang/New Hampshire-Boston-NYC-Italian mafia because security is non existent in my country of bullshit career-crime-masked-as-the-American-dream-and-Christianity.

Alklone

Hello, how are you? I want you to help me change the screen size. I tried from the settings, but it didn't work. What should I do?

noob404

Alklone Check Settings on your TV Menu. There should be something like "Original"

Alklone

Hi noob404 Thanks for help

Alklone

But there is a big problem when I download any application from the shop, so what is the solution