Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?
Le dimanche 11 mai 2014 à 21:33 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit :
> I like to do my packaging under sid, because
> that is where the packages will first have to run, so
> I can test them there.
>
> But what do you do when your sid system stop work
> after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working
> no screens found.
>
> Of course I filed a bug.
>
> But is there some kind of work around that will let you
> keep working somehow?
It happened to me this sunday (got caught by the llvm-3.4 upgrade).
I carefully downgrade each package recently updated, as logged
in /var/log/apt/history.log.
If i cannot find the old version of a package, i use lynx to download
directly the deb file out of snapshot.debian.org.
It usually restores the system in a working state.
Also, etckeeper might help if you're often fiddling with /etc.
Jérémy.
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