I woke my system up from sleep this morning, realized that it’s been some time since I’ve rebooted, maybe a week, so I used the menu and clicked reboot. After rebooting I was greeted with the “Welcome to KDE Plasma!” message as if this was the first time install. All my flatpaks are still installed, but ALL of their settings, all my configuration changes to plasma, and all my distrobox containers are gone. Looking at sudo rpm-ostree status
I see
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia:stable
Digest: sha256:12d258896d4415a205ef82418257a5c11df0efcb24eb3466c61e8dcaac9515a4
Version: 41.20250310.2 (2025-03-10T08:36:53Z)
LayeredPackages: hplip-gui
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia:stable
Digest: sha256:61750d4d0446adfa24f9f5e12c3b6a9b828f57cbaef50d47fd0479f75481505c
Version: 41.20250302 (2025-03-02T06:03:22Z)
LayeredPackages: hplip-gui
I see nothing in journalctl to indicate some major fault happening.
I’m flabbergasted. It is going to take me some time to restore everything back into a working state. I have to recreate all my distrobox images, redo all my settings for Plasma.
Wtf happened? I thought user level files were never touched on updates?
EDIT: Something similar appears to have happened with Silverblue: