Hi.
Last week I had 13.1 installed and decided it was time for an upgrade to the recently released 13.3. After creating a snapshot I ran the usual commands
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sudo apt updatesudo apt upgradeHowever, after a seemingly uneventful upgrade of 100's of packages, when I rebooted the screen was filled with numerous service start failures and the system would not bring up the lightdm (I run xfce4+lightdm) screen but just go to the console login. Luckily I was able to restore the snapshot and get a working PC again.
When I retried the process, I found that "apt update" reported all packages are up to date, "full-upgrade" did nothing, but my os-release is still marked as 13.1. I fear a database of sorts is out of sync.
Is there a way to force an upgrade or reinstall to get to 13.3? I'm kind of lost as to what to check or proceed.
Thanks.
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sudo apt update[sudo] password for chris: Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InReleaseHit:2 http://debian.mirror.serversaustralia.com.au/debian trixie-backports InReleaseHit:3 http://debian.mirror.serversaustralia.com.au/debian trixie InReleaseHit:4 http://debian.mirror.serversaustralia.com.au/debian trixie-updates InReleaseHit:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InReleaseAll packages are up to date. chris@asus-rog:~>$sudo apt full-upgrade The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 linux-compiler-gcc-12-x86 linux-headers-6.1.0-39-common linux-headers-6.12.43+deb13-common linux-kbuild-6.1 linux-kbuild-6.12.43+deb13Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 chris@asus-rog:~>$cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"VERSION_ID="13"VERSION="13 (trixie)"VERSION_CODENAME=trixieDEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.1ID=debianHOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"chris@asus-rog:~>$uname -aLinux asus-rog 6.16.3+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.16.3-1~bpo13+1 (2025-09-06) x86_64 GNU/LinuxStatistics: Posted by therealkitman — 2026-01-26 03:41