There is a bug in the 570.86.16 Nvidia driver that breaks active sync so I rolled back the Bazzite update that provided that driver and turned off updates with ujust toggle-updates. Nvidia will be fixing this in a future release driver but I have no idea when this will happen. I’m new to atomic distros so my question is: Now what?
Somebody with more experience with these distros may have better advice, but my suggestion would be to keep on eye on the stable releases in this Github repo for updates to the Nvidia driver, and in the meantime only update flatpaks, distroboxes, homebrew, etc. with their individual upate tools.
ETA: I forgot to mention, take a look at the “Issues” tab in that linked repo and see if there is a similar issue reported. If not, I believe you can create an issue so that the dev team is made aware of it.
ETA2: This method from the Bazzite docs may be a more convenient option. It seems you can just run updates normally and it will keep the system updates pinned to whatever version you rebase to, then when an update with a new Nvidia driver is released you’d rebase back to stable.
I think @ScrambledLogic pretty much covered it. I’d also recommend pinning your current working deployment just incase.
Normally when you rollback you can leave auto updates enables as it will only update to a new version not the one you rolled back to (ie 2 rolled back to 1will only update to 3 not 2). However in your case disabling is probably a good idea which unfortunately leaves you with a bit of manual monitoring till what you need is fixed.
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Thanks! I did choose to do the rebase. If nothing else it allows the convenience of using “ujust update” to update everything but os image.
I had missed the fact that rollbacks work like this, but it makes complete sense.