Request for help, I broke some graphics

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I broke some packages and I need help figuring out how to fix it.
I run Nobara and usually update via "Nobara Package Manager", however it ran into a problem:

Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: nobara-amdgpu-config

I found the solution on Nobara projects site: sudo dnf update --exclude=nobara-login --refresh && sudo dnf update --refresh
That did result in several packages begin updated, I just skimmed through the list but I remember some mesa stuff. After a reboot some apps render like in the picture - missing characters or missing text all together and flickering artefacts. I run things pretty out-of-the-box so not sure what I've done that has lead up to this, just care about gaming.

How can I troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance

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Yeah I kind of realised that the instructions assumed I had already upgraded, will try to keep track of new updates better in the future. So for sake of completion here's how I solved it in the end:

  • Ran upgrade from Nobara 37->38 following their guide: https://nobaraproject.org/docs/upgrade-troubleshooting/how-do-i-upgrade-to-a-new-nobara-version/
  • Ran into conflicts: file /usr/lib64/libopenh264.so.2.3.1 conflicts between attempted installs of openh264-2.3.1-2.fc38.x86_64 and noopenh264-0.1.0~openh264_2.3.1-2.fc38.x86_64
  • Solved it with exclusion: sudo dnf -v system-upgrade download --releasever=38 --allowerasing --exclude=openh264.x86_64
  • Fonts and glitches are gone, got some broken deps instead. So if anyone got a suggestion for that instead let me know. Otherwise I'll do as it suggest --best --allowerasing' and see what else breaks:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: plasma-desktop
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 Package                 Arch   Version         Repository                 Size
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Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 kde-settings            noarch 38.2-5.fc38     nobara-baseos-38           33 k
 libkworkspace5          x86_64 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38          115 k
 libkworkspace5          x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38          115 k
 plasma-workspace-common x86_64 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38           41 k
 plasma-workspace-common x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38           40 k
 plasma-workspace-libs   x86_64 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38          2.2 M
 plasma-workspace-libs   x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38          2.2 M
 plasma-workspace-wayland
                         x86_64 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38           70 k
 plasma-workspace-wayland
                         x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38           70 k
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 kde-settings-plasma     noarch 38.2-5.fc38     nobara-baseos-38           13 k
 plasma-lookandfeel-fedora
                         noarch 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38          403 k
 plasma-workspace        i686   5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-multilib-38  15 M
 plasma-workspace        x86_64 5.27.8-1.fc38   nobara-baseos-38           15 M
 plasma-workspace        i686   5.27.9.1-2.fc38 nobara-baseos-multilib-38  15 M
 plasma-workspace        i686   5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-multilib-38  15 M
 plasma-workspace        x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38           15 M
 plasma-workspace-x11    x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38           68 k
 sddm-breeze             noarch 5.27.9.1-3.fc38 nobara-baseos-38          440 k

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Now it's trying to either partial upgrade OR delete your desktop. Your system is fucked.

It un-fucked itself thankfully, I haven't done anything to resolve that issue. But when I ran the update today it went well with several new packages. Which means Nobara or Fedora pushed some changes to packages in the repos.

Every time you're excluding something you're excluding updating a package, while updating all the others. Then if the new packages depend on the newer version of the package you didn't upgrade by excluding it, things break. That's what's happened here. Every time you use exclude to upgrade something you're essentially breaking your system worse. That's what the other person means by "partial upgrading"

And now that message says it's going to completely remove your desktop environment so you're gonna have no desktop, just a cli shell.

At this point the easiest thing would probably be to back up your home directory and whatever else you want to keep and just reinstall the system. Any other process to try and fix it is going to require more trouble and time than it would take to just reinstall unfortunately. There may not even be a way to successfully unbreak your system.

I saw that error when I first installed nobara. Googled it, and the solution was just to not use dnf to update, but nobara-sync instead.

Yeah I forgot to mention that I'll not be using dnf manually but rely on nobara-sync. But I must stress that I already did that before this issue, BUT I followed advice on nobaras own website where the solution was to use dnfand I still ended up with this problem. The real issue was still my own though, I should have upgraded to Nobara 38 before trying the workarounds, since 37 isn't supported any more.