On 10/2/21 08:57, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way
behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the
first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways...
For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox. Which is a real
problem, because it's inside a virtual machine that I do all of my mail, so I
couldn't get at my mail for a while. In Synaptic Package Manager if I try to
install it I get the following error message:
"Package virtualbox has no available version, but exists in the database. This
typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has
been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list"
I got temporarily past this by installing 8 on this laptop I'm currently typimg
on. Some things are decidedly less convenient.
Firefox is majorly different, apparently having gone from 68.9.0 --> 78.14.0esr. It no
longer uses the font that I'm telling it to, and for some odd reason won't play any youtube
videos any more. Instead I see a message on the screen that says "if video doesn't
start momentarily restart your device". Huh?
Konqueror is also broken, I get "Could not start proess Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'"...
Trying to open a file with Okular gets me a similar message.
I don't see any way to back out of these changes, or any obvious place to look
for where the problems are. Suggestions welcomed.
Backup your system configuration settings and data, remove the system
disk, insert a blank, small, fast system disk for the OS, do a fresh
install of the OS of your choosing, configure as desired, add blank, big
RAID for data, and restore data.
David
