revert an upgrade? [SOLVED]

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 14:21 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> I fear it's the time to say:
> Backup any stuff, reinstall a fresh copy over the top, hope it can
> pick up and preserve your settings.

Yes, well, that's always the backstop solution, isn't it.

With 14.04 available and already on a bootable USB stick on my desk, I
think I'll go even larger and just blow it all away and put on 14.04. I
don't generally upgrade, I install anew. It's a good chance to clean out
all the cruft, and on the rare occasions I have attempted version
upgrades, it's never gone well.

Figuring I had nothing to lose, I just did an "apt-get --reinstall
install" of all the packages logged in the "bad" update. Afterwards, the
newer kernel booted fine.

So wow, much angst, very satisfaction.

Regards, K.

PS: Colin, saw your message saying do exactly that after I'd done it :-)

PPS: Liam, I *always* have a backup. I did a year of PC support at a
University back in the day, and saw too many distraught PhD students
bringing in dead hard disks (and sometimes floppy disks), asking us to
resurrect the only copy of their thesis - three, four and in one case
five years work gone. One person lost a unique dataset, so lost not only
the thesis but the basis of the work, too. Not stupid people; I blamed
their supervisors for not advising them better.

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