[arch-general] Another Major glitch now

[David C. Rankin]

On 01/28/2012 10:35 AM, P NIKOLIC wrote:
> Well it seems no help then     it seems parts are working parts are not  so how do i set about  uninstalling KDE 4.8 and reverting to the previous working version  or is 4.8 the new viersion now if so it has problems
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> Pete .
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>
> --- On Sat, 28/1/12, P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com>  wrote:
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> From: P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Date: Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 15:43
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> I have just updated the system  now on kde4.8 but all i get is kmix and a white screen noting else works at all  even that took 12 mins to  come up
>     (ps the update was a normal pacman -Suy )
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>
> Pete   (sent from webamil on the lappy cus main machine is futzed )
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>

Pete,

   Also, your package cache is in /var/cache/pacman/pkg.  Unless you have done 
something to remove them, then all your 4.7.4 packages are still there. You 
can simply do an 'ls -al /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*4.7.4*' to confirm. You can 
downgrade using 'pacman -U' <file list of 4.7.4 packages>

   I wrote a couple of scripts to handle cleaning /var/cache/pacman/pkg and 
moving old versions off the / partition to the /home partition to keep the 
space on / free and to keep exact copies of my prior working packages. 
Currently the previous versions of packages are moved to /home/backup/pkg-1 
(then pkg-2 and finally pkg-del)

   Grab the scripts at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduparch.sh
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduppkg

   Just put both in /usr/local/bin and call fduparch.sh as root. The scripts 
are reasonably commented. fduparch.sh is the wrapper script that just calls 
fduppkg successively to move old versions of packages to the directories 
specified in the array 'DIRLIST'.

   After each 'pacman -Syu', I just call 'fduparch.sh'. Just run 'fduparch.sh 
-h' to get a better description. HTH.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.