[Xastir] Crash and Restore

[Bob Nielsen]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Darryl Gibson wrote:

> Bob Nielsen wrote:
>> 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'?
>
> Nope.
>
>> 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 have heard that there are issues with upgrading Ubuntu, and I  
> have also been told they are a thing of the past. I know some folks  
> don't even bother trying to upgrade, the just do a clean install,  
> and restore there stuff from backups.
>
> (I switched to Debian after a similar disaster with Red
>> Hat 4.1 many years ago).
>
> I feel your pain, my first attempt at Linux was with RH 5.2, and I  
> never got past the command line. My first successful Linux install,  
> with X, and all the eye candy, was with Mandrake 7.0.
>> 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.
>
> Well, your reading my mind. For years I've been happy playing with  
> new distros, as long as I had copies of my address book, bookmarks  
> and various files on a flash drive. But times have changed, and now  
> I want a serious backup and restore plan in place.
>
> So, I'm planning to query the two LUGs I'm subscribed to, about how  
> they handle their backups, I don't know whether that discussion  
> would be appropriate here or not?
>
> Anyway, I re-installed this afternoon, and I'm playing with a clean  
> Ubuntu box, I think.
>
> After the install, I told Synaptic to dl sbackup, with the  
> intentions of having sbackup restore my stuff. Synaptic told me it  
> was going to dl 14 packages, but when I checked a half hour later,  
> it wasn't dling anything, and it was claiming it was dling 41  
> packages!
>
> I don't know what the hell happened, but my guess is Ubuntu decided  
> to take advantage of the internet connection, and do it's upgrade,  
> during my dl?
>
> I bailed out of the stalled dl, and then told Ubuntu to fetch the  
> upgrades it wanted. I'll get my stuff later.
>
> Ubuntu's upgrade was interesting, it re-installed Thunderbird  
> email, and  it installed libmagick. As far as I know, the only  
> thing on this box that wants libmagick, is Xastir (back on topic)  
> and Xastir still isn't working.
>
> So, the box/system is playing tricks on me. My backup is telling  
> Ubuntu it needs some stuff, but not telling where all the stuff is,  
> how to get it, or...?
>

Possibly you haven't edited /etc/apt/sources.list to enable the  
universe repository (and possibly multiverse).