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The difference was that I only flash Magisk when I sideload Lineage, which I only do when Lineage goes to a new version of Android. It's the only time I ever open the Magisk app to let it update. After that, all OTA updates leaves me with Root and always has.  I will try doing what you describe and see if it works.  It seems odd to me, given that my method has worked for some years now.  And not clear to me why it would cause a problem with booting... I should just lose Root. I'm almost wondering if the jump from 23.0 to 23.2 isn't acting as if it is a  full version update even though it is not. I may try following the upgrade instructions and see if that works.

OTA, because I am too lazy for sideload unless absolutely necessary. Start the OTA, let it grind on ad nauseam, wait for the message to reboot, stop there and open Magisk app, select install to vacant slot, Magisk runs its little script, then swap back to the OTA and touch reboot. Done it a couple of dozen times like that, it always works. I recall that you and I installed Magisk in different ways, and had words here about it. I can't recall exactly what the difference was now, but you could parse our old comments here to check it. I think you claimed you didn't need to do this shuffle with the Magisk app when using the OTA, but I found that I would lose root if I did not do that. I think it had to do with the different approach we each took to the original root. I would suggest trying the OTA again, stop at the "reboot now" toast, open Magisk and select install to vacant slot, and THEN reboot. Can't be worse than where you are now, and it may well work. I should say this particular updated 1x has Gapps installed, and I can't recall now specifically how I did that. My other 1x is Google free, so I may try to update that one soon for pure devilment, and see what happens. Both of them were originally rooted the same way at the same time, and both of them are regularly updated through OTA by means of the above described method to preserve root.

So are you talking sideload  or OTA? Right now I am using OTA. I can certainly tru the update instructions that uses sideload but doen't lose data, but I had the impression that didn't change the outcome.  I can give it a try, 

Interesting. I just did this update on one of my Pro 1x phones, and it worked fine. I did it the usual way that I do to avoid losing root, ie. wait for the update process to require reboot, then open Magisk, select install to vacant slot, then reboot.  All working tickety boo now, version 23.2-20260209-NIGHTLY-pro1x Of course LTE reception remains unusably bad, but that kinda goes without saying now. I guess I should wait for the next update for my other 1x.

Warning! ⚠️ Tried to update to Lineage-23.2-20260209-NIGHTLY-pro1x (notice we have jumped from 23.0 to 23.2). It reboots to the bootloader menu. It won't reboot to system and if you go to Recovery, rebooting to recovery does not change the slot. However, doing a shutdown, booting the phone (you still end up in bootloader menu), going to Recovery and doing a System reboot finally boots the older Lineage 23.0  (Future reboots are fine) with 23.2 in the updater labeleed as needing installing. This problem has been reported in the their Github for two other devices with people having tried updating recovery and sideloading not changing the situation. so I will stay on 23.0 for now and wait and see how they address the problem.  I suspect it's a model independent problem and that their knowing The Pro1x is also affected won't matter that much.