Problem with 9/16 update on Byzantium (and Bullseye)

Software PureOS
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Maybe I did something wrong, but I had issues with the PureOS updates this morning, 63 packages including a new kernel version.

On PureOS, the update failed in apt about mid-way, after adding the new kernel. I ran “sudo dpkg --configure -a” as instructed by apt and it finished. I found on PureOS, however, that my DNS was totally screwed up. It took a while to isolate, and then to fix.

I think there might have been some interference with my VPN, so keep that in mind. I did turn the VPN off, but I had to fake out networking by putting 8.8.8.8 (yikes!) in resolv.conf. Once I got things to resolve, DNS from the VPN seemed to work and I deleted 8.8.8.8.

A similar update failure happened to me in Bullseye yesterday. There, I lost all my icons and windows. (I use dark mode.) I finally got xterm to work where I could see what I was typing and did the dpkg command above. I did not have the DNS issue. My icons and windows came back. Whew!

Just in case others see similar problems…

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Unrelated, but a tip nonetheless:

I never use Google’s DNS. For instances like this, I use Quad9, which promises not to track IP addresses: 9.9.9.9

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Thanks for that information. Good to remember.

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And just for the hell of it … 1.1.1.1 might also be less evil than Google.