| Art Alexion on 6 Dec 2006 01:18:34 -0000 |
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:43, Will Dyson wrote: > 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). Thanks for the tip. I think this is where I am heading. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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