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Hi Julian, I don’t know if I can help with your upgrade woes specifically but have you considered using a snapshotting file system such as btrfs to protect yourself somewhat from failed upgrades or unexpected outcomes? I use btrfs and snapper to keep hourly, daily, weekly and monthly snapshots organised automatically and I have seen they are configurable to snapshot prior to upgrade automatically. Does take more drive space but only the delta. You may already have such a thing in place but just thought it might be worth mentioning. Thanks, Rob > On 27 Nov 2025, at 10:41, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm running kernel 6.8.0-88-generic on Mint 22.3, and every morning run 'sudo apt > update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove' to keep the system up > to date. Yesterday I ran it and all seemed OK, but a few minutes later I was > spontaneously logged out. I entered my password, which was accepted without error > /but/ not logged in, I was just asked for my password.. repeatedly. I did a soft > reset, and that time the computer hung up during boot and wouldn't log me in. > Eventually after a hard reset and taking longer than usual to log me in, the > system behaved so I thought all was OK. > > Not so as it did exactly the same this morning. I logged in, perfectly OK > initially, then threw me out without warning. Has anyone else experienced this > problem? Is it just transitory or will it misbehave /every/ morning? > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZm5tz_dRhLGMc_WdwG0pXq_Zb9fs2H7/view?usp=sharing > <- output of 'journalctl -b' > > Kind regards, > > Julian > > -- > “The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly > fact.” > > ― Thomas Henry Huxley > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/