I actually fixed my computer a day or two after I broke it, but I haven’t got round to posting since then. Anyway, it’s a very good reminder of why having your home directory on a separate partition is so helpful – it saves having to reconfigure everything. You still have to install apps that aren’t installed by default, but it could be much worse.
Anyway, what happened was a dependency issue with glibc… Apparently it happened to other people as well, but was fixed fairly quickly – so I’m a lot more cautious now. If there’s an important part of the system in the update list, I don’t update for a day or two now – just in case.
