restore with rsync or fix window manager

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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 that will leave your system more and more out of date.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 very strange state where it up to date in some places and out of date in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.
>>
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