On 2009-03-27_17:43:22, green wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600: > > On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: > > > I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. > > > It > > > would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it. ... > > want an exact restore because there might have been security fixes > > released that I would want to include in the new system. > > Well, I have just tried to think of all the possible problems. > In the time I have used Debian, I don't recall ever having needed to do a > reinstall (hence the 'minimally tested'). Every install has been a new one > for > a system on which Debian has not yet been run. Of course this could be > applied > to that even also I suppose...
Recently I agreed to acquire a backtrace using gdb on gnome-terminal. I had reported it crashing under a certain situation. I'm not skilled at debugging, but gnome-terminal is important to me, so I agreed. The work did not go well. Things went from mildly annoying to bad, and then to very bad, and to much worse. I reached a point where my system was unusable. So unusable that I could not ask for help via email. This project of making re-installation less difficult is being done in the expectation that I will crash my system again while helping to find a bug in software that is important to me. If I do this project well, I'm sure it will help others to see there way clear to helping Debian in debugging user reported bugs. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
