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I broke some packages and I need help figuring out how to fix it.
I run Nobara and usually update via "Nobara Package Manager", however it ran into a problem:

Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: nobara-amdgpu-config

I found the solution on Nobara projects site: sudo dnf update --exclude=nobara-login --refresh && sudo dnf update --refresh
That did result in several packages begin updated, I just skimmed through the list but I remember some mesa stuff. After a reboot some apps render like in the picture - missing characters or missing text all together and flickering artefacts. I run things pretty out-of-the-box so not sure what I've done that has lead up to this, just care about gaming.

How can I troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance

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[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every time you're excluding something you're excluding updating a package, while updating all the others. Then if the new packages depend on the newer version of the package you didn't upgrade by excluding it, things break. That's what's happened here. Every time you use exclude to upgrade something you're essentially breaking your system worse. That's what the other person means by "partial upgrading"

And now that message says it's going to completely remove your desktop environment so you're gonna have no desktop, just a cli shell.

At this point the easiest thing would probably be to back up your home directory and whatever else you want to keep and just reinstall the system. Any other process to try and fix it is going to require more trouble and time than it would take to just reinstall unfortunately. There may not even be a way to successfully unbreak your system.