Gary Roach wrote: > The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've > got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. > Things have changed since I started this thread. I found a really > good missive at: > > http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Repairing_apt-get_database Interesting. I almost agree with some of that. :-) > that got me through the problem. The only package that couldn't be > fixed was openoffice.org-filter-binfilter. This package is not > essential. I purged this one and now have a clean system. And of course you can always re-install anything you want too. It seems to me that you must have tried to backup restore the system part of your system. I am not opposing that in principal but in practice I don't usually try to do it that way. For next time let me suggest an alternative way to recover. Instead I try to make sure I backup all of the locally created data (such as /home and /usr/local) and all of the local configuration (such as /etc and /var/backups) and then when I restore I actually install a new image from scratch. Then onto the new image I restore the data (/home) and then move to the more difficult part of restoring the system installed components. I will merge in the accounts from the old /etc/passwd and group files and then re-install all of the packages that were installed previously. Record of those is kept in /var/backups and I have written about how to get the list of installed packages from there before. Install the list. Restore the previous configuration from the old /etc. Restart and eventually reboot to the restored system. It isn't trivial but it isn't too difficult either. It works. > I do have a major problem with KDE desktop icons now but that needs > further investigation an maybe a topic for another thread. If it is a failed restore issue then what I would try to do is to determine what package includes those icons, purge that package, re-install that package. Or perhaps hit it with a larger club by purging all of kde, verifying that everything related has been removed, and then re-installing all of kde. If something didn't restore correctly then giving that package a fresh install should make it good again. Good luck! Bob
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