On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 14:57:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/07/2018 02:33 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 19:23 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > > > > > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > > > > > [MATE desktop] > > > > > I edited sources.list to access online repository. > > > > > I then followed the instructions at > > > > > [linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-debian-9-stretch-to-debian-10- > > > > > buster] > > > > > as it had everything conveniently shown. > > > > > > > > > > Everything appeared to go normally up to a point well into the > > > > > actual > > > > > downloading of the Buster packages. I temporarily lost my > > > > > internet > > > > > connection. After reconnecting apt-get gave an error message > > > > > suggesting I > > > > > use "--fix-missing" IIRC. > > > > > > > > > > It appeared to work and boot correctly. > > > > > > > > > > However Gparted no longer appears in the System->Administration > > > > > menu > > > > > although Synaptic shows it as installed. I blindly chose to tell > > > > > Synaptic to > > > > > reinstall it. > > > > > > > > > > I installed stretch to another partition which I'm using now. > > > > > Is the Buster install repairable? > > > > > > > > Does gparted run from a terminal? > > > > > > It does? > > > > > > A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. > > > > > It moved in Buster (Mate version of GUI) from system->admin to > > Applications->system tools. > > Try there. > > > > It is there and it launches. > As to "does it run from terminal", I was treating its absence as a _symptom_ > not a "show stopper". As a graduate of Hard Knock, I thought it unwise to > attempt forcing it to run without cause.
The third sentence is about as obtuse as it gets. > > When I've had some sleep I will follow follow the routine Reco suggested. A lot of work just to get a menu entry back. -- Brian.
