Sunday March 19, 2006
Laptop upgrade horror story
- Posted by Rob (#1) on March 19, 2006 22:17 CET
Last week I decided to upgrade the software on my laptop. I had been running an old version of KDE for quite a while and ignored the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" rule by jumping into FreeBSD's ports system. Quick summary of that adventure: I broke it. For some reason kdeinit hang indefinitely because DCOPserver had some problems with ICE. I'm sure I could fix it if I really wanted to, but for some reason I've been dying to get back to Slackware anyway.
So, I'm currently downloading the lastest Slackware torrents while uploading my personal files and configuration settings to a backup drive. Hopefully my system is up and running again before midnight. And hopefully I won't have to spend all Monday making a new build of the development repository we use at work. I probably will though: we use Perl and Perl is a language, not a platform. To do anything useful with it one has to navigate through dependency hell a few times. (Sometimes the mere number of "use this" and "use that" includes are a bigger part of a module than actual code, go figure.)
Wish me luck.
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