On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > > > unstable simply would not run ... > > > > > > How does one recover from something like this short of doing a reload? > > > > Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the > > version in Testing, which will still work? > > > > I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command > > line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work? > > Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable. > > Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but > can be
That would depend on why kde wouldn't start. If its just kde window manager or kdm then you wouldn't have a problem running it in any other window manager. > done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions saying > that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no, I don't > know how to - short of a reload. > > I'll take this for one vote that testing is actually a better choice than > unstable. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA1bnhjeziQOokQnARAq9UAJ9YYymDxyNU5mlTCpNy5yLtfD/92ACfd1Jw > 4RZjkGNJypftRLfhhm85b28= > =QeFr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
