On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:01:01PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > unstable > > simply would not run ... > > I was effected by this as well, yet not effected at all. This is where > doing things by hand comes in very handy. > > When I ran dselect, it reported a huge number of KDE packages which > were effected by broken dependency. At that point, I ctrl-C out of > dselect, which leaves my system just as it was before. I checked the > bug tracking and user mailing lists, noticed other people having the > same problem, and relaxed. It wasn't an isolated problem. > > Every couple of days I would run dselect, update the list of packages, > and if the same dependency problem happened I would simply break out > and try later. One day, someone reported that the problem had been > corrected, and sure enough dselect did not give me the list of > dependency problems. > > The only people who's systems were twisted by this error were ones who > do updates automatically. Automatic can work on Stable, where bug > fixes are the rule. I would no more run automatic updates on Unstable > or Testing than I would set the cruise control and go to sleep in my > car at 75mph on a twisty road. > > > How does one recover from something like this short of doing a > reload? > > That shouldn't be a question by someone running Unstable. Unstable is > exactly that, and should be considered to be an interactive learning > experience. > > One of the reasons that I like dselect, other than that's what I used > first, is it is a command line application. No matter how crippled > the system gets, if it will boot it will run dselect. >
also apt and aptitude ;-) > Curt- > -- > September 11th, 2001 > The proudest day for gun control and central > planning advocates in American history > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 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]
