Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot

["Will Dyson" <will.dyson@gmail.com>]

On 12/5/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> > If you want to give me login access to your machine, I'd be glad to
> > poke at it a bit more. Otherwise, I advise you to cut your losses and
> > reinstall.
>
> I think you are right.
>
> I don't want to do this because (other than hal) I have spent a lot of time
> getting this machine set up the way I want it.
>
> OTOH, I should do this because there are 3 years of stuff I probably don't
> need (and that are probably causing the problem, as well as leftovers from 3
> dist-upgrades.
>
> As I said, I have Dapper installed.  I am tempted to see if installing Edgy
> will fix the problem, but I fear that it will only further obscure it.
>
> All of the system and /usr stuff is in a single / partition.  I have some data
> on other physical drives.  I am thinking I should try to save the following
> for restoration:
>
> 1. /home
> 2. /usr/local
> 3. /opt

You will certainly want to backup /etc as well. You will probably only
want to restore specific files from it rather than the whole thing.
But failing to keep a complete copy would be a mistake.

You may also want to run "dpkg --get-selections > dpkg-selections" and
keep the resulting file. You can feed it back into dpkg later with
"dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections". Then the next run of your
package manager should install any packages you had before and are now
missing (be sure to sanity-check any packages it tries to remove).

--
Will Dyson
http://www.lucidts.com/
Linux/Mac/Win consulting
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