Re: Uh Oh - HOSED Upgrade - Deb - HOW to Recover ?

On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:18:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> This is similar to another thread I started here.  IMHO upgrades are the
> scariest part of Linux.  I always take full backups of everything first
> with a script like this:

I hit that this morning. I'd been playing with CircuitPython on an old 
Playground Express board using VS Code and the CircuitPython v2 extension. 
All was good. I updated the Leap machine and got the latest Code, 1.131. 
The extension crashed and burned on takeoff. I reverted Code to 1.130, 
still no joy. I jumped a few but 1.127 works as expected. 

The other part is 1.127 uses Electron 42.2, 1.130 and 1.131 use 42.7. That 
makes me suspicious. Before the Trixie update Code started to crash on the 
Pi 5. It turned out the kernel optimizations for the Pi 5 were the problem 
and reverting to the Pi 4 kernel solved it.

Too damn many moving parts! At least it helped me to decide on MicroPython 
instead of CircuitPython. CP has some advantages but the extension author 
lost interest about 10 months ago so I'm not waiting for a VS Code fix. I 
assume it still works with Thonny, the default IDE in the Raspberry Pi OS. 
Adafruit used to recommend Mu but that's dead now too.