Any way to recover from this update?
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I watched the libqt3* and libqt4* updates for a week after reading the listbugs, which weren't at all encouraging.
But after seeing the updates there for a lonnngggggg time, I bit the bullet and let it happen.
Well, after a reboot, it knocked out some of KDE, and all of my task bar, all of the menu system and a lot of other stuff. Then when I tried to revert according to the history folder in synaptic, I saw that in order to uninstall the libqt3 & 4 stuff which I had listed before the "update", it wanted to knock out and delete most of the rest of KDE and some 300+ other files. I declined.
What I'd like to know is there any way to revert all this libqt3&4 6.1 stuff back to 6.0 without destroying what is now a badly broken, but somewhat usable without any menus system. Or do I have to reinstall and risk losing all of the work and effort to get it from oringinal 6.01 to date? I have a huge project due in 24 hours and it is all in thunderbird, and I'd HATE to lose that.
I'd also wish to warn anyone still on the fence about doing THAT upgrade, to NOT do it, and DO believe the listbugs report!
Ken
I think your most pressing issue is your partition layout
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If your /home is on the / partition, then anything that affects the / or system partition affects your /home. From what I read, and thinking I am reading between the lines correctly, I think you have your /home on / and should re-configure your drive.
In my most basic configuration, I use a smaller / partition, no less than 5Gb but typically 10Gb, depending on the HDD size, most of the rest of the drive for /home and a little for swap. When I have my system running very well and reliably, I boot the system with a livecd, login as root and take a snapshot of the / partition with partimage, which is included on the cd and dump it into the /home/
Doing this as root, the resultant backup file can not be erased or altered by a user other than root, but because it is on a seperate /home partition, if I screw up my system by installing a package or through an errant upgrade, it takes me no longer than 15 minutes to completly restore my system back to a healthy running state without a single loss in terms of my precious data and that includes emails and bookmarks, even saved passwords and authenticated sessions for websites.
I have written a small script for partimage, let me know if you want it, and if you're not comfortable customizing it for your partition layout, tell me what you have and I'll personalise it for you and include instructions within the script for it's use. You'll have to read the instructions by opening the script with a text editor, but if you close it without saving, it will remain intact.
Mike P
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Yes, please, send script
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You may send it to ken (at) pantheus (dot) com
You are correct in how I was set up...and would like to change it to how you suggest. I've never used partimage though.
TIA,
Ken
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It is done
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Have fun.
I'm sure the devs or somebody with more experience then me could easily take these tiny scripts and incorporate them into a live cd and make them available through the menu. It would take only a minor change to combine the scripts and make them more interactive, asking what partition the user wants to backup or restore then performing the task.
Mike P
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Backing up T-Bird
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Thunderbird's files are kept in a hidden directory named .mozilla-thunderbird in the user's home directory. Copying that should backup anything you have saved in Thunderbird proper. Copies of attachments should be included, but I'm not sure I'd totally trust that.