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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