On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. > >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. > > I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to run a > ~amd64 system for evaluation, and yesterday I got my comeuppance. I > wanted to go back to an earlier backup of the test system*, so I took a > backup of my home directory with its e-mail history, wiped the partition > and restored the old backup followed by the home directory. Wrong. I'd > mixed the home directories of the two systems and so I lost the last > five weeks' worth of e-mails. > > And no, I hadn't been drinking or getting over-tired. Just goes to show > - you can't be too careful. > > * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought > must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything > installed since then hadn't fixed them. >
well, I had (1!) problem after updating to KDE 4.3.4. Konsole's fonts looked ugly and the cursor was misplaced to the right by one 'space'. Rebuilding everything emerged after patch-2.6 (which included kde, qt and a lot of other stuff), solved that problem.
