Sudden complications with Adept and Synaptic - partly solved

[Willy Hamra]

2008/10/14 Ulrich Grün <ulrich.gruen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/14 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
>> I am not very experienced, however, I had a problem where I needed to
>> fix a broken package.  I booted to where you have a choice of opening
>> your OS or opening in Safe Mode.  When I clicked on that, there were two
>> choices where if you clicked on them they fixed problems.  At the end of
>> the repair procedure, I was asked if I wanted to continue opening up
>> normally, I did, and the OS opened fixed.
>
> Did you have the installation CD in the PC? I know of no repair option
> like this. Did this option appair emediately, before booting the
> kernel?
> It sounds as if this would be what we need.
>

you don't need the CD. in GRUB menu, choose recovery. usually every
kernel has a normal boot mode, and a recovery mode. when you choose
the recovery option, usplash doesn't load, you see a lot of stuff
scrolling on the screen, and finally you get greeted with a menu. you
can choose to repair X, fix some package, and other stuff.

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.