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Brian Masinick
Even though there have been some problems and time consuming activities taking place, I do also believe that this is a great way to learn, by making mistakes, diagnosing them, trying other things until the problems are resolved.
Something that others have said:
It’s great to experiment, but instead of having to start over completely every time, using the USB (several people have recommended “frugal” mode USB) and also back up the data or the system or both to make recovery easier than reinstalling every time there is a failure.
If you get used to doing these things then learning and experimenting will be a lot better! 😁👍😎
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Brian Masinick.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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Brian Masinick
dirkd
I tried Xecures scenario for recovering, but in my case it doesn’t work. It seems I’m definitely unable to restore Xorg. When trying, I get the message that I’m asking something impossible, and that I have held broken packages… 🙁
I just checked my debian.list on my main system. It too hasn’t got the flags nosystemd. Am I in danger there too? But I’m running that system for years now, essentially without problems…
This systemd business keeps getting more confusing…
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by dirkd.
Xecure
I made a fresh install of Antix-17.4. I changed the repos from stable to testing.
If I am not mistaken, the correct process if first update to buster and then move to testing.
Anyway, after changing the repo, did you dist-upgrade and reboot? Did everything work before the apt-get install –reinstall smplayer smplayer-themes or did you do all of this before rebooting?
This week seems that is going to me a nightmare for me, so I won0t have much time for the forum. As this is an experiment you are trying, let us know how it goes if you get to fix it.
Note that the nosystemd flag is missing, which I didn’t notice at the time. Why is it that a new installation has a wrong debian.list???
The debian list is correct. The only list that needs the nosystemd tag is antix.list I don’t know what magic anticapitalista has used, but it seems that the antix.list is the one that controls the debian repo systemd on a leash.
Quite unrelated, but maybe someone can help me with that too. Somewhere along the way the icons in Control Centre change from the very nice Faenza type (which is supposedly the default for Antix17) to the downright horrible Papyrus. It’s not that important, but if possible, I would like to avoid it.
This has already come up before:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-can-i-change-the-icons-of-the-antix-19-control-centre/#post-35426This user, however, overcomplicated some things (I was able to “fix” the antixcc.sh in about 10 minutes or less.
I am going to share the file here. Decompress, open the antixcc .sh file in a text editor.
Now open in an editor (with root privileges) the file usr/local/bin/antixcc .sh
copy the content (all) from my file to yours. That should fix all icons (I think).Note: you may have to edit also the desktop-session-exit file, but it should be easy, as those icons are in antiX-faenza in /usr/share/icons, so just edit the icon path to there.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
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Thanks, Xecure. In particular for putting my mind at rest about the nosystemd flag in the debian repos.
I think that indeed the problems with xorg being wiped out are due to my changing the repos in an incorrect way. I started over, this time sticking to the stable (‘stretch’) repos. I did a full upgrade (but NOT a dist-upgrade) without any problems. I could then install SMPlayer without interference with Xorg. Added benefit: antixcc keeps its friendly Faenza face.
I’m thinking of duplicating my new install before experimenting with changing to ‘testing’ repos. For some reason a snapshot I made wasn’t functional. So I’ll try imaging the partition.
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