I just ran the dist-upgrade and noticed a line it spit out: grub installed for i386 system Huh? This computer is 64 it. On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > that sounds like good advice! it makes a lot of sense. So then.... I will > no longer do apt-get install upgade but only dist-upgrade. > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> 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 that will leave your system more and more out of date.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 very strange state where it up to date in some places and out of date in 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~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: