[Xastir] Crash and Restore

[Bob Nielsen]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Darryl Gibson wrote:

> Tom Russo wrote:
>> Sounds like whatever database is kept to keep track of packages is  
>> munged.
>
> Yes, and now I need to track down that database, cache, or whatever  
> it maybe.
>
>>> Now I'm not sure what to think, was it my backup/restore that
>>> munged things, or did the package repos change, or both?
>>> I'm putting this install down, and re-installing Ubuntu from
>>> scratch. I'll get all of my hard drive back, clean up fstab, and
>>> start off from a clean slate.
>> That sounds like an extreme course, but it would guarantee a clean
>> system.
>
> Yes, I now have the confidence that I can restore my mission  
> critical stuff, so it is time to play with the other stuff.
>
>> You might instead just try installing all the necessary packages with
>> apt-get instead of relying on synaptic, but if synaptic is so
>> confused then perhaps starting from a clean slate isn't crazy.
>
> Yes again, my fstab file gives me a dozen kernels to boot from, but  
> the one I downloaded via synaptic, isn't one of them.
>
> This box is AFU, and I'm putting her down.

I missed the beginning of the thread, but by any chance did you  
upgrade to 6.10 from 6.06 using 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?  I tried that  
and ended up with sort of a disaster.  On the Ubuntu web pages I  
found some mention of others having problems with apt-get for the  
upgrade, but supposedly update-manager worked for them.  I was a bit  
disappointed, because upgrading has always worked for me with Debian- 
based distributions (I switched to Debian after a similar disaster  
with Red Hat 4.1 many years ago).

I downloaded the 6.10 image, burned a CD and reinstalled from  
scratch, keeping my original /home and /usr/local directories (which  
I long ago learned to install on their own partitions for situations  
like this).  After that, Ubuntu 6.10 has been working fine for me.

Bob, N7XY