Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?
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On 05/08/07 18:54, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I think I have something basically wrong with my system.
>
> Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with
> a floating point exception.
>
> Web pages that work fine for everybody else don't work on
> my system and throw a bunch of javascript and java errors.
>
> I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have
> had all sorts of problems with it.
>
> I have reinstalled the kernel. Reformatted the swap file.
> Reinstalled a couple of the problem programs after doing
> an apt-get clean so a new deb file would be downloaded.
> No help.
>
> It seems to me that either something got corrupted during
> the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that
> shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library
> somewhere.
>
> Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove
> 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right
> to me so I don't use it.
>
> Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by,
> "Format the hard drive and reinstall"?
Well, you actually *might* have a hardware issue. RAM, mobo or CPU
heat issues are the usual suspects.
Barring that, though, you could purge your system down to the bare
essentials (which is extraordinarily small), do the apt-clean,
apt-get upgrade, then reinstall all your packages (the list for
which you saved before The Great Purge).
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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