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