in recovery mode as root I executed:

mount -o remount,rw /

mount --all

then cd’ed to /media/home, ls’ed and got no results.

I also don’t know if changes to make the system writable are made on the go or if I have to reboot. I rebooted and the system is still in read only mode.

ETA: another command that might be relevant:

dpkg --configure -a

returns

error processing package install-info (–configure), installed install-info package post installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127

Does mount /home improve that ?

no

Im reading about nmtui

feel free to suggest other approaches

dmesg prints a large log that I cannot copy, the only red lines I read regard bluetooth, but the log is huge and I can only see a fraction of it.

I can cd to /var/log and ls it, what file do I have to open? or what do I do now?

I purged the broken package with sudo dpkg -P libfreerdp2-2 and immediately afterwards I executed sudo apt get upgrade. It unleashed a list of 96 packages to upgrade totaling 900 MB of data.

However, if I press yes on ‘do you want to continue?’ wlan seems to be off:

E: failed to fetch http… initramfs-tools-core… could not connect to 127.0.0.1, connection refused.

(I can write the whole address if you need it)

how do I enable wlan as root from initramfs?

hi, thanks for your input.

Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me. Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

NMTUI shows that wlan works

Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me. Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

NMTUI shows that wlan works

backup done

/etc/apt/sources.list point to 24.04 noble

there are 2 packages disabled on upgrade to noble: mkv and imagereader, lines are commented so nothing wrong here

do you still recommend to execute sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a?

it seems there is no -a option for dpkg-reconfigure:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a returns unknown option -a

if I delete -a it asks for a package to reconfigure

after trying suggested command

sudo dpkg --configure -a

I get:

error processing package install-info (–configure): installed install-info package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127, errors were encountered while processing install-info

just to be clear, you mean removing the battery, or do you mean using a command?