Re: Upgrade debacle........
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From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:56:03 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: Upgrade debacle........
Hi Charlie!
On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 13:08 +1000, Charlie wrote:
> Using Debian testing 3.12-1-amd64
You're using this kernel, but what version of Debian do you use?
3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hope that helps?
I use that kernel because the later one did all sorts of CPU gobbling with swap files, when I have two swap partitions of 1GB each on this system from when I set it up.
> Updated and upgraded this morning was told to run this:
>
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> Did apt-get told you to do this?
Yes apt-get told me to run this command, and I did as root.
> Which likely should be
> sudo gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
I also ran that command and the response was the same:
-su: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
> It didn't do anything of course and when I rebooted, found the system is severely broken.
> You did or didn't run
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
I did run it as requested by apt-get.
What is broken?
> I assume I have to reinstall, that seems to be suggested on a few ubuntu posts on the web?
dmesg? /var/log/Xorg.0.log? ~/.xsession-errors? Or what ever log file
might be useful regarding to the "severely broken" things?
I looked, at could find nothing, and it also didn't give me any clues as I watched the boot up messages.
Assumed the "severely broken" things can't be fixed, why not restoring
from the last backup you made?
I have never mastered a backup, so have never made one. The few times that things went belly up, I reinstalled all the system directories and files and applications and started again with my /home directory untouched, it was all just as I left it.
Thanks,
Charlie
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