restore with rsync or fix window manager

[Brian Cluff]

The packages on your system were already in a bad state when I 
recommended you do that.  While the dist-upgrade might have lead to some 
of your computers symptoms, it was not the ultimate cause of your problems.
One thing that could happen with a dist-upgrade that won't happen with a 
plain upgrade in that it can remove (and add) packages in order to make 
your system completely up to date.  You shouldn't ever have a problem, 
but under very rare circumstances, the system will try to uninstall 
important packages that make your system run. Usually after you've done 
something weird to your system, or when you've installed someone's PPA 
who doesn't know what they are doing with dependencies.
I'd suggest that you need to run dist-upgrade more often, not less or 
not at all.  On all my systems, I ONLY do dist-upgrade, I can't even 
remember the last time I did a simple upgrade.  Running it more often 
will keep your system more up to date and put all the necessary packages 
on your system for the software to work correctly rather than putting a 
subset of packages that will leave your system more and more out of date.

Think about it this way.  A piece of software has a security problem or 
wants to add features and the fix is to add in a new library that does 
something that fixes the problem.  If you just do an upgrade then apt 
will not upgrade that piece of software at all because it would require 
it to also install an additional package{s).  Now if there are other 
pieces of software that say they want a certain version of the first 
program in order to satisfy their dependencies those also won't get 
upgraded.  Do this over and over and before too long you have system 
where your desktop is in a very strange state where it up to date in 
some places and out of date in others.

It's best just to keep it completely up to date in the first place with 
dist-upgrade.

Brian Cluff

On 01/09/2016 04:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> You were oh so right Brian. I had changed the window manager in / 
> home. Now whenever I restore root nothing is fixed. I will NEVER do a 
> dist-upgrade again. Everytime I have my system crashes! Now I am 
> trying to restore my home directory which was created with rsync. The 
> exact command was:
>
> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents 
> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>
> What would the command be to restore My home directory. I figure it is 
> easier to restore home (which I had just recently update) than to fix 
> the window manager.
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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