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Re: unhappy upgrade



On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:33:24 pm David Christensen wrote:
> On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current.  Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11.  I tried the first of those steps,  and things did not go well in a number of ways...
> > 
> > For some reason,  the software decided to remove virtualbox.  Which is a real problem,  because it's inside a virtual machine that I do all of my mail,  so I couldn't get at my mail for a while.  In Synaptic Package Manager if I try to install it I get the following error message:
> > 
> > "Package virtualbox has no available version, but exists in the database.  This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded,  has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list"
> > 
> > I got temporarily past this by installing 8 on this laptop I'm currently typimg on.  Some things are decidedly less convenient.
> > 
> > Firefox is majorly different,  apparently having gone from 68.9.0 --> 78.14.0esr.  It no longer uses the font that I'm telling it to,  and for some odd reason won't play any youtube videos any more.  Instead I see a message on the screen that says "if video doesn't start momentarily restart your device".  Huh?
> > 
> > Konqueror is also broken,  I get "Could not start proess Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'"...
> > 
> > Trying to open a file with Okular gets me a similar message.
> > 
> > I don't see any way to back out of these changes,  or any obvious place to look for where the problems are.  Suggestions welcomed.
> 
> Backup your system configuration settings and data, remove the system 
> disk, insert a blank, small, fast system disk for the OS, do a fresh 
> install of the OS of your choosing, configure as desired, add blank, big 
> RAID for data, and restore data.
> 
> David

My current hardware purchasing budget is currently completely dedicated to buying stuff that I need to replace thanks to a nearby lightning strike.  Next up is getting my laser printer working again.  More and better hard drives will have to wait,  unfortunately...

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