07-05-2025, 09:37 AM
(06-05-2025, 08:57 AM)Wainuitech Wrote: I didn't do anything anyone else would do. The update Icon in the tray advised - Opened updates - selected update all ( including the Upgrade) when they had done their thing It advised to restart Clicked on restart -- Thats was it.
The desktop Versions -- Well, won't go there, it seems every time they upgrade, something doesn't work that did before.
I am genuinely surprised, especially with Kubuntu - not that I've used it much myself - but being Ubuntu and Debian based, updates should be well tested and failures few and far between. My experience with Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio have all been pretty reliable and I never had any major failure that wasn't from my own doing.
The fact that your drive got wiped? Very weird, and worrying. Updates shouldn't even touch the partition table etc. So unless a memory error or drive error occurred and data was mis-written to the wrong place?
Perhaps if there was some glitch with a bootloader update? But that shouldn't wipe the drive, just corrupt GRUB. Then you could boot using Super Grub Disk or such, and reinstall the bootloader...
Was the drive actually zeroed, or just the partition table corrupted?