Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:25:30AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>
> >A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in unstable
> >simply would not run. I've noted several of the messages recommending the
> >unstable branch say that there were some updates that caused the receiving
> >machines to crash / lock / not start.
> >
> >How does one recover from something like this short of doing a reload?
> >
>
> Fix the problem yourself -- a lot of times an error message will point
> you to the exact line in the exact file that's causing the problem, and
> a quick look will reveal a missing quote mark in the preceding line or a
> misspelled word in the line, etc.
>
And if you don't know how to fix it but know which file is the problem
you can find which package it came from using dpkg -S <file name>
I think that there is also apt-file which will let you search for
specific files, or in the debian package search page you also have an
option to search bu file.
> or
>
> Wait for the problem to be fixed and for the fixed packages to become
> available; then install the fixed packages.
>
> In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm,
> wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc.
>
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> Kent
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