Help request: upgrade failed, locked out at decryption passphrase
11-26-2021, 06:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2021, 06:04 AM by tiikeri.
Edit Reason: fix mispellings
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Thank you for the suggestion Zebulon Walton, I took a look at deja-dup in the past, but bad reviews discouraged me to try it: there is nothing worst than thinking you are safe when you are not. Anyway YES, you right, a backup system is absolutely needed.
Anyway, we know debian is great and mobian is in that path: I managed to recover everything because I was able to save my /home/user directory through jumpdrive, and after I reflashed the mobian installer on my Pinephone I imported the /home/user directory back to its position and everything is all right (even if I doubt it is a correct way to do a backup/recover and it's much better to regularly save an Image of a working system, but anyway it was good in an emergency situation).
Something to point out after my experience, besides my faults:
- Battery is still not working fine. I usually charge it between 20% and 80% as suggested by most producers. It's quite worrying that the battery discharge when it's plugged in. This may be related to high heal of GPU/CPU (better thing to do in this case is to power off the device). I also see some thread on the forum concerning the same issue.
- Something blocked the apt when I did the upgrade, I will double check if I edited sources in the right way.
- I have some kind of bug or misconfiguration about Keybord: during the installation and configuration progress, yesterday, I noticed some messages about it, unfortunately I can't found the related topic on debian bug tracker anymore. It was something like "keyboard settings are missing, guessing 'pc105' [...] configuration may be incorrect". I don't know if it is related to my issue since I couldn't type anything when decryption passphrase was requested. I have installed the following keyboards: en/US, italian (italy), russian (russian federation), emoji and of course terminal.
Let's going on with Pinephone and mobian
Anyway, we know debian is great and mobian is in that path: I managed to recover everything because I was able to save my /home/user directory through jumpdrive, and after I reflashed the mobian installer on my Pinephone I imported the /home/user directory back to its position and everything is all right (even if I doubt it is a correct way to do a backup/recover and it's much better to regularly save an Image of a working system, but anyway it was good in an emergency situation).
Something to point out after my experience, besides my faults:
- Battery is still not working fine. I usually charge it between 20% and 80% as suggested by most producers. It's quite worrying that the battery discharge when it's plugged in. This may be related to high heal of GPU/CPU (better thing to do in this case is to power off the device). I also see some thread on the forum concerning the same issue.
- Something blocked the apt when I did the upgrade, I will double check if I edited sources in the right way.
- I have some kind of bug or misconfiguration about Keybord: during the installation and configuration progress, yesterday, I noticed some messages about it, unfortunately I can't found the related topic on debian bug tracker anymore. It was something like "keyboard settings are missing, guessing 'pc105' [...] configuration may be incorrect". I don't know if it is related to my issue since I couldn't type anything when decryption passphrase was requested. I have installed the following keyboards: en/US, italian (italy), russian (russian federation), emoji and of course terminal.
Let's going on with Pinephone and mobian
