[Digikam-users] Help needed on ubuntu 11.10

[Anders Stedtlund]

Just out of curiosity, how did you run rsync to not sync the hidden files?

/Anders

2011/10/26 sleepless <sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>:
> Thanks for all who tried to cheer me up a little.
> In return to the list some serious info here probably only useful to Ubuntu
> users.
>
> If you are on Ubuntu 11.04 and you are tempted to download something, hold
> your breath a few seconds and make sure you update and NOT upgrade.
>
> If you do upgrade to 11.10 the following may happen:
> - your system does not start anymore
> - your restored backup does not start anymore eyther.
> So please follow philips´s advice and make a clean install and do only so
> after a real backup of your system. fsarchiver is your friend.
>
> Now you will find the new system probably not as much fun as you hoped for.
> You may succeed to get rid of unity and overlay scrollbar, but gnome
> environment is not what it used to be. IMHO the great OS ubuntu has evolved
> within 6 months to a useless peace of crab.
> So, after all you might want to restore your backup of 11.04 which maybe no
> longer starts due to grub problems caused by 11.10.
> I figured out how to solve that, so you may ask if it happens to you too.
>
> If you just backed up your settings and personal stuff, you should be aware
> that a symple rsync does not takes hidden files in acount. The things you
> wanted most take care off are lost.
>
> to name a few:
> .bash_history
> .thunderbird
> .mozilla
> .kde/share/config/digikamrc
>
>
> Two symple mouse clicks in a split second caused 24 hours of stress. And
> more to come, I just succeeded to get a backup from august 25 running again
> on one of my pc´s. Ubuntu has matched up with windows in causing trouble,
> that makes me realy sad. I realy hope that softwaremakers will grow up a
> little, playtime is over, you don´t have to show off what you are capable of
> any longer, don´t be so obsessed with so called cool stuff, you have the
> power to make pc´s to great fascillitating tools, to make our lifes better
> instead of worse.
>
> Kind regards,
> Rinus
>
>
>
> Op 24-10-11 19:01, Rinus Bakker schreef:
>
> Hi All,
> Just returned from a trip and decided to start with updating my pc's from
> ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10.
> As usual this action destroid my entire system. Now I have 2 pc's presenting
> me a black screen. It was to expect of course, at has never been different,
> but I did not bother to much because I have backups. But this time restoring
> the backup results in a statement about wrong license: grub rescue>
>
> I have realy no idea how to go on. Google did not come up with a great
> answer.
>
> Any ideas around here?
>
> Are a great idea for a rockstable different linux distro, not messing up my
> computers twice a year?
>
> TIA as always,
> Rinus
>
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