[VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....
Hi, This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed packages and undo the changes? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8fb557ad2054b273de5a66dcd628d018.squir...@neidorff.com
Re: [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....
Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011 schrieb m...@neidorff.com: Hi, This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed packages and undo the changes? Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, in synaptics you can look into the history. Look at File History. Then choose the correct date. There you can see, which packages are updated. I suggest, to write down, which packages you want to downgrade, with version etc. and then use aptitude to downgrade manually. A good idea for the future is, to save the installed package list from time to time in a file. When you have a crash,m you can reread this file and revert easily back. Synaptic is offering this option. Also you may try reverting back to a state using synaptic instead of aptitude, but I do not know, if this is working. Hope this helps. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110081727.24952.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....
Op Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:12:44 -0400 m...@neidorff.com schreef: Hi, This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed packages and undo the changes? Thanks, Mark Why is this Very Important? Try starting it (X + KDE) from a shell and see what happens. Does it work with a new dummy user? Are you using an xorg.conf file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111008173840.064e8...@squeeze.telenet.be
[SOLVED] [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....
On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:12:44 am m...@neidorff.com wrote: Hi, This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed packages and undo the changes? Thanks, Mark It is a permission problem. #chmod 777 /var/tmp solves the problem. (whew!) Mark (and, yes it was very important!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110081258.30024.m...@neidorff.com
