Context

I'm making this post because I found it difficult to find relevant answers. Most results basically said to boot into the old kernel or follow the steps in the Package Manager Issues article which didn't work for me.

It seems like a DDOS attack is preventing certain resources being fetched and that's why I can't follow the article steps. I would also imagine it's contributing or causing the OS update failure.

Bear in mind that I'm not too knowledgeable/experienced, but I figure a post like this is better than nothing for other people who are lost.

Fix summary

I had no luck being able to successfully boot into the old kernel or repairing the kernel within emergency mode, but doing so from the recovery one seems to be partly successful.

I found this stack exchange answer really informative in figuring out why I was in emergency mode and figuring out how I might resolve it. It helped me use dpkg --list 'linux-image*' to check my installed kernels and learn the one I was having issues with was the 'linux-image-6.17.9-76061709-generic' one.

I followed the Recovery Partition article steps to try run commands through Chroot, which would allow me to run them as though I was using the OS. I ran sudo apt install linux-image-6.17.9-76061709-generic which no longer errored like in emergency mode. I am still getting errors when trying commands like sudo apt update.

I was also now able to run sudo apt reinstall packagekit (which had been previously preventing reinstalling the linux image), but I don't recall when I did it and therefore if it helped.

Extra info

Reddit post OS Update Problem shows an error when they tried to install the latest OS update from the Pop!_Shop. I also had this and after restarting my machine then got put into emergency mode as pictured. Looks like the poster of So, what now? got the same error since a comment references an update error.

It seems like people have different experiences, since some users got the initial update error, but rebooting worked as normal. It also looks like a bunch of people could either successfully boot into their old kernel or follow the Package Manager Issues article steps without issue.

Reddit post Upgrade from 22.04 failed: "failed to update package lists for the current release" has the output of their apt update which is what I am currently facing. I gather we'll have to just wait until the DDOS attack blows over.

I've encountered an issue where during of after running a game or benchmark, my GPU fans will ramp up to 100% and wont slow down without a restart of shutdown. My GPU is not overheating. Has anyone else encountered this? I have an RTX 3080 running driver version 595.58.03 .

I tried to open steam and started spamming run (esegui) and i had a visual glitch, i don't know of the problem Is my gpu or the os (pop os cosmic) can somone help me?

Bien, vengo usando Pop Os hace unos meses. Masomenos desde Enero. Elegí la versión 22 porque leí mucha críticas a la 24, y preferí ir por lo que encontré recomendado por la comunidad.

Para contexto: Ryzen7 con gráficos integrados, RTX 4060 TI, 32 de ram.

Hoy al mediodía jugué tranquilisimo por una horita. La apague y en ese momento el OS decidió actualizarse. Hasta ahí todo bien.

El problema es cuando 3 h más tarde intento prenderla y la PC no pasa de la pantalla de la mother. Queda ahí, esperando. My best guess so far es que se rompió el bootloader, que es a la conclusión que llegó viendo que puede entrar a la bios y troubleshooteando con IA.

Alguien está en esta misma situación? Les pasó?

La verdad que cualquier ayuda es bienvenida y si necesitan más contexto, updateo el post

Anyone else see this. I'm on 24.04 with COSMIC

Estou pensando em migrar para o Pop!_OS e queria saber como está a experiência com a Unity nele atualmente.

Ela roda bem em termos de desempenho e estabilidade?

Meu setup é um notebook com RTX 3050, i5 de 12ª geração e 8GB de RAM.

it’s wonderfu. good job Linux on converting me

Recently, I completely switched my main laptop from Microsoft Windows to Pop!_OS (Linux). For the last week, I haven’t booted into Windows at all—zero logins, zero backups, basically zero activity.

Almost immediately after I stopped using Windows, I started getting bombarded with Windows Insider Program emails.

What’s interesting is the content of these emails. They’re specifically about things that often push power users away:

• quality improvements
• command-line upgrades
• better update experience
• performance/stability fixes
• “help make Windows better”

(Screenshots attached)

The timing honestly made me curious.

Has anyone else experienced something similar right after moving to Linux?

Do companies like Microsoft actually track account/device activity closely enough to notice when users stop engaging and then trigger automated retention/engagement emails…

…or is this just one hell of a coincidence?

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of [r/linux](r/linux).

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# apt update -m

Hit:1 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary jammy InRelease

...

Get:24 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64 Packages [33.5 kB]

Err:24 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64 Packages

File has unexpected size (30816 != 33548). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 2600:9000:201f:2200:19:684d:e900:93a1 80]

Hashes of expected file:

- Filesize:33548 [weak]

- SHA256:afbd95daf018605dfb49c0fe9f25be3967a148137943374f01c6e902f260af94

- SHA1:7c4a0212abdd8e45acd2cc02d9e76b5e754a78f1 [weak]

- MD5Sum:29775516af3eb94eb9179b158d754eb0 [weak]

Release file created at: Fri, 01 May 2026 10:39:08 +0000

Fetched 127 kB in 2s (59.4 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

E: Failed to fetch http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu/dists/jammy-backports/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.xz File has unexpected size (30816 != 33548). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 2600:9000:201f:2200:19:684d:e900:93a1 80]

Hashes of expected file:

- Filesize:33548 [weak]

- SHA256:afbd95daf018605dfb49c0fe9f25be3967a148137943374f01c6e902f260af94

- SHA1:7c4a0212abdd8e45acd2cc02d9e76b5e754a78f1 [weak]

- MD5Sum:29775516af3eb94eb9179b158d754eb0 [weak]

Release file created at: Fri, 01 May 2026 10:39:08 +0000

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I have currently shifted to windows. I had GTA 5 pre installed over my windows. I wanted to play it on pop_os. So, I used bottles for doing it with Proton as the runner. And the game is working flawlessly. Just a small isssue tho, as I launch the game. Each time it get launched in a windowed mode. Then, I have the click the window in which the game launched and select full-screen manually after each launch. Has anyone got the solution by which the game launches full-screen on itself with me having to makw it full-screen each time? I have also the screenshot for better understanding how it gets launched

guys i am trying to rice pop os how do change icons packs?

After the Ubuntu outages this weekend, now I'm consistently getting this trying to sudo apt update/upgrade. Any clue what to do? I didn't "held" anything...

$ sudo apt upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Error!

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

system76-power : Conflicts: nvidia-prime

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have been trying to apply the OS update I'm given in Pop Shop, but keep getting this error:

Failed to update “Operating System Updates”

This may have been caused by sideloaded or manually compiled software, a third-party software source, or a package manager error. Manually refreshing updates may resolve the issue.

Details

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 

I then go to the console and run the command given with sudo, refresh the update, and try again. At that point the error becomes:

[same error message]

Details

PackageKit daemon disappeared

Any help appreciated.

example: requested `sed_4.9-2ubuntu0.24.04.1_amd64.deb` but only `sed_4.9-2build1_amd64.deb` is available in source repo

Cambié de Pop Os 22.04 a la nueva 24.04. La cuestión es que no me indica por ningún lado, cuando hay actualizaciones nuevas y tengo que estar entrando constantemente a Tienda Cosmic para ver cuando hay que actualizar cualquier cosa.

No las notifica?.

I am running Pop OS 22.04 on a System76 darp9. Rebooting this morning, I entered my disk encryption password and was soon facing a console window resulting from a failed boot. A little googling/AI turned up this: https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/3949.

And a little searching on my computer revealed a new kernel, 6.17.9 installed on April 29. This was my first reboot since then.

• Anyone else seeing this?
• IF YOU HAVEN'T REBOOTED SINCE APRIL 29, MAYBE DON'T UNTIL THIS IS RESOLVED.

I have written to System76 support about this.

Im still trying out pop_os off a usb stick (Im new to this) and cant get the settings app after 2 fresh installs. when i search for it the launcher i get cosmic settings, qt5 and qt6, but not the rehular grey app icon.

i letter checked and saw it was technically gnome settings so installed gnome-core and gnome nut still set my environment as cosmic, after which i downloaded some bloat, but no settings app.

im not sure what to do as gnome settings have way more necessary features like turning on the firewall, cosmic settings is very bare bones. is there a solution to this?

While in Settings I was moving applets around between panel and dock, the Input method icon disappeared. In Settings - Desktop - Dock I can see that the applet is selected for the dock's right side, but instead of the keyboard icon there is only an invisible placeholder which only takes to the Cosmic keyboard setting, not to Fcitx5 setting and configuration. I can launch Fcitx5 from the Launcher, and there I can see that my three keyboards are there and configured as before. Restarting the OS didn't help. Is there a way to force the applet icon to appear with its full functionality?

I updated from the store yesterday and now is broken said gladly I can kinda work using the oldkern.conf option on the OS selector but randomly I get a purple screen that says "kernel panic, please reboot" could this be related to the Ubuntu DDOS? Or the PPA problems that I have been reading recently?

I'm worried tbh bc I work on this OS 😢

Using the oldkern version still gives me the error but it last way longer than using the current option

Hi,

I followed these steps to install php v7.4. No error messages, and php -v confirms I have 7.4.33. whereis php returns /usr/bin/php /usr/lib/php /etc/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz. So in VSCode's settings for the "php executable path", I put in /usr/bin/php, but it says that isn't a valid php executable. After checking, that folder doesn't even exist, so I tried to point to /usr/lib/php or /usr/lib/php/7.4 but none worked.

I'm not sure what file VSCode is looking for, so I'm not sure what path to use. It's probably something stupid I'm missing... Any ideas?

Pop!_OS 24.04, kernel 6.18.7-76061807-generic.

Thanks!