#1

I love sway and wanted a newer version. I committed to building it from source and I decided to use the fedora toolbox to avoid issues on my host OS. Everything worked great. I installed way more random packages than I would have liked and didnā€™t have to care because itā€™s a container. I got sway built and when I finished I tried running ing sway from the virtual console. It was spewing errors about some missi g library. I installed the library using RPM-ostree. It was late so when it finished and I got sway up I just closed the laptop lid.the batter died over night and when I powered the laptop up it was not coming up. I tried the normal troubleshooting procedures to no avail. Then I rememberedā€¦ :thinking: Iā€™m using ostree, how do I just use an earlier revision? I realized the normal boot loader menu had my revisions. I loaded up a previos version andā€¦ BOOMā€¦ I was back in buisness.

Thanks SilverBlue.

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#2

Thatā€™s great! Just in case, Iā€™d recommend running an fsck on your partition afterwards, as ext4 doesnā€™t always handle abrupt shutoffs too well.

#3

Xfs for win! I checked it :wink:

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#4

Haha nice, Iā€™ve got to try that next install.

#5

Thanks for sharing with the rest of us!

#6

Had that, but really regretted that later, when I needed to shrink the partition. ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ

#7

not sure why (or how to change it) but rpm-ostree keeps only the last two deployments, you can however ā€œpinā€ the deployment you want to keep like this:
sudo ostree admin pin 2

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