To Hippy
Hey hippy, I told you i could feel the heat coming on this one. I haven't faired much better than all the others. I ran several tests on 8 different installs and it was still hosed. The best bet right now is not to update at all. I haven't found any really acceptable work arounds. I myself am having problems with 3.3.2.-03 being unstable just with the install(no updates) it's crashing randomly doing different things, most of the time it just kicks me out of gui to the command line. I beleave its that new gui or text option in the install. I have reinstalled back to 3.3.2.-02 and am not having any problems. I hate to say this but this one is more up to date from stock than that new one if u look at firefox its 1.0.4 and this one is 1.0.6 there are other things like that but no need to get into it, im sure u get the point. For now i'm going to let it go, it does not seem worth it to try and fix something so broken. Sorry i couldn't bring any good news. As soon as i get mine back to the way i like it, i will come back and help with all the posts, i see there are lots of complaints. Time for the posse to ride hard! I think mepis is going to catch alot of S#!T on this
and were going to have to stand behind it and let them no things like this can happen when you push to make it better so quick. Thats all for now see ya when i see ya.
Update Urps
Hi all,
I haven't yet played much with Mepis 3.3.2, but I just finished posting to hippy on another thread moments ago that, as hippy has stated, the repositories are really rigorously rapidly rolling
I found that KDE 3.4 stuff is starting to be moved into unstable and 3.3 stuff is in testing. I was able to fix my immediate woe (the KDE Control Center was borked) by doing:
apt-get install kdebase-data/testing
kerry, you may want to try this command:
apt-get -s install bunchesofpackages/testing > results.txt
The "-s" allows a "simulated" install and the results will be written to results.txt. That way, you can see if some of your current problems might be fixed. If certain packages show up as being (properly) DOWNGRADED, then you may want to then perform the install from the testing repository.
The same situation might hold for you cougaran
I gotta modify my backup process so that I keep multiple backups and see if that will help me to recover faster! Although I think it's only been about an hour since I first posted my woes and have now fixed them. That's not too bad, and I didn't have to pay for a call to Tech Support
Jon
Hey hippy
I'm still updating my system. I have figured out that all the kde is the problem packages, it want's to remove the old to install the new but it is incomplete. I have locked mine and i am still testing the others i am installing 1 by 1 to find all the problem packages(there's frickin like 340+ i am working through). This could take a while but it will pay off in that we will know the cause of the breakage. Sorry for leaving u hanging with all these problems to sort through. Don't get mad at the posters,there just in a panic. Will be back soon.