Re: Question about get-selections - a little story
On 2009-03-27_17:43:22, green wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600:
> > On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote:
> > > I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. It
> > > would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it.
...
> > want an exact restore because there might have been security fixes
> > released that I would want to include in the new system.
>
> Well, I have just tried to think of all the possible problems.
> In the time I have used Debian, I don't recall ever having needed to do a
> reinstall (hence the 'minimally tested'). Every install has been a new one for
> a system on which Debian has not yet been run. Of course this could be applied
> to that even also I suppose...
Recently I agreed to acquire a backtrace using gdb on
gnome-terminal. I had reported it crashing under a certain
situation. I'm not skilled at debugging, but gnome-terminal is
important to me, so I agreed. The work did not go well. Things went
from mildly annoying to bad, and then to very bad, and to much
worse. I reached a point where my system was unusable. So unusable
that I could not ask for help via email.
This project of making re-installation less difficult is being done in
the expectation that I will crash my system again while helping to
find a bug in software that is important to me. If I do this project
well, I'm sure it will help others to see there way clear to helping
Debian in debugging user reported bugs.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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