On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:33:24 pm David Christensen wrote: > 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
My current hardware purchasing budget is currently completely dedicated to buying stuff that I need to replace thanks to a nearby lightning strike. Next up is getting my laser printer working again. More and better hard drives will have to wait, unfortunately... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
