Every atp command returns an avalanche of errors, I freed up some space but the package management stuff seems gone and I can’t seem to fix it. Should I fresh install?

SOLUTION: Okay first of all thanks to all the people who replied to me and pointed me to the right direction, the issue was I was having full disk space and missing a few apt libraries which prevented the commands to run succesfully. I solved by freeing up some space, chrooting inside my corrupted environment from a live USB (there’s plenty of guides online on how to do this correctly), I downloaded (from debian package search) and installed manually with dpkg a few packages: apt-transport-https, curl, and libnettle8t64 which apt-transport-https required and which was the one actually solving the problem. After that apt --fix-broken install could run succesfully and every further apt command worked without issues, upgraded the system and now it is booting fine! Again, thank you so much @mumblerfish@lemmy.world, @utopiah@lemmy.ml @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de, @ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works, @BassTurd@lemmy.world, @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz !

  • brooke592@sh.itjust.works
    151·
    3 days ago

    Sorry that happened to you.

    The distro developers should implement a solution so that updating without enough space doesn’t break your system. They could prevent the update or at least warn you that there’s not enough space and bad things can happen.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 days ago

      There are warnings so my bet is that there is an edge case where

      • one runs apt and receives NO warning
      • the system keeps on doing other tasks, e.g. user copies a large file on the same filesystem or log files just increasing
      • user runs apt upgrade BUT now apt would warn except it’s not run again

      so basically concurrency that makes it unpredictable, except if apt was the only process writing on the filesystem (which it never is).