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A "fix" for the systemWell, it seems that the problems in the previous post were "solved" by removing most of the gui-related files, including gnome, kde and the X server. After about half an hour to an hour, everything perked up and returned to the previous state before installing all the unstable packages. Thus did aptitude undo whatever problems were caused by apparently cleanly removing whatever was inhibiting performance. I can't say I understand what was going on, but at least one is able to backtrack to a certain extent. At least it proves the designation "unstable" is somewhat deserved, and that using packages from that distribution is potentially harmful to a working setup - if it isn't broken, don't upgrade. Not a bad rule to follow, especially for a machine running a number of servers. Bookmark/Search this post with:
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Re: "the designation "unstable" is somewhat deserved"
Of course it's deserved. :-)
Who knows what the exact problem was. It could have been a bug in some part, but another distinct possibility would be that some components were upgraded, while others weren't -- and that "mix" created some issues. That can definitely happen in Sid.
This is a lesson I'm constantly reteaching myself. You'd think after 6 or 7 years I'd learn, but nooo... :-)
At least I have the excuse
At least I have the excuse of inexperience...
I'll probably leave it without a GUI for the moment as I'm not really using one at the moment. In a way it's a good thing not to be distracted by pretty windows, and Webmin is useful for helping work things out. Some would say working without a GUI is going "backwards", but so far I've had little desire to actually use it on the Debian machine. Well, specifically the X server - I am using windows as the client machine but I'm not using actual GUI tools.