On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Robby Workman wrote:
I didn't take any offense to anything you said, but even if I had, there's no need to apologize to me - you're understandably under some stress because of all this, and so long as a person doesn't delve into personal attacks, I'll not get offended and/or hold grudges.
Thank you.
The biggest concern I have is trying to get you to see that your backup and restore practice is a big part of the problem, and I just don't see a good way to do that without *me* being, or at least coming across as, harsh.
This is the first time a Slackware upgrade caused me any problems at all. Totally unexpected. It turns out that the /usr/local/lib restore from the backup tape placed libfreetype-3.6.8 on the disk and that was in addition to the 3.6.18 installed with -12.2. As soon as I removed the earlier (vintage 2005) libraries, everything built with the SlackBuild scripts. The first 4 days the system was down I tried re-installing 12.1 (the distribution that worked), but there was still something broken because I could not get that working at all. It was Friday a week ago that my SysAdmin friend agreed that another 12.1 install was futile and I might as well go to 12.2. That booted with the huge kernel, but not the generic one. Then I carelessly deleted some files from /etc/ and restoring from tape into that directory was the cause of last week's problems. So I tried to restore to a clean 12.1 distribution installation, but it just refused to work. Now everything is stable, current, and working with the 2.6.27.7-generic-smp kernel and I can focus on my business for a while. I greatly appreciate the help all of you offered. When I saw the two library versions it brought back the memory of the same thing happening with early Red Hat distribution upgrades. But, that was so long ago I had totally forgotten about it. Again, a heartfelt thank you to all of you, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
