Anyone else tracking LMDE – SID? [Update]
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:38 pm
I know this is out of the mainstream, but also realize that some people are tracking SID with their LMDE install. Just curious if they would share their experience with a guy new to LINUX..
I have only been at Linux for 7 months or so, but am recently retired, and have lots of time to experiment.
I have two installations of LMDE on this computer. One the standard installation tracking “testing” with the additions of the Liquorix kernel (std kernel does not support suspend/hibernate on this machine).
I wanted to learn more so I thought to add a 2nd installation, but this one tracking SID. I expected lots of breakage, but thought that “fixing” LMDE that would be a good way to learn.
Well it went for about three weeks, with plenty of daily updates (2-3 times more than “testing”), and NOTHING broke, everything ran very well, and I had the latest software, also have the latest kernel 2.6-38-1.
That is, everything WAS going well until the updates of last Monday. A huge bunch of updates came down, 180 plus. I did a “review” in synaptic, and saw that a ton of seemingly necessary stuff (gnome, x-org stuff) was to be removed. Not sure why an update wanted to remove important stuff, but wanted to see what happened, and updated all. (I made a clone of the partition before updating).
Well sure enough it removed important stuff and borked my system. I rebooted to the black screen with login promt. Logged in, got the “command line”. Not knowing exactly what to do entered “startx”. It started to load, but stopped at the gray screen with absolutley nothing else. I guess it really did remove gnome...
I put back my pre-Monday-update install and all is well. I guess I will just wait a week or so , and try it again.
Would really like to hear back from others and of their experience.
I have only been at Linux for 7 months or so, but am recently retired, and have lots of time to experiment.
I have two installations of LMDE on this computer. One the standard installation tracking “testing” with the additions of the Liquorix kernel (std kernel does not support suspend/hibernate on this machine).
I wanted to learn more so I thought to add a 2nd installation, but this one tracking SID. I expected lots of breakage, but thought that “fixing” LMDE that would be a good way to learn.
Well it went for about three weeks, with plenty of daily updates (2-3 times more than “testing”), and NOTHING broke, everything ran very well, and I had the latest software, also have the latest kernel 2.6-38-1.
That is, everything WAS going well until the updates of last Monday. A huge bunch of updates came down, 180 plus. I did a “review” in synaptic, and saw that a ton of seemingly necessary stuff (gnome, x-org stuff) was to be removed. Not sure why an update wanted to remove important stuff, but wanted to see what happened, and updated all. (I made a clone of the partition before updating).
Well sure enough it removed important stuff and borked my system. I rebooted to the black screen with login promt. Logged in, got the “command line”. Not knowing exactly what to do entered “startx”. It started to load, but stopped at the gray screen with absolutley nothing else. I guess it really did remove gnome...
I put back my pre-Monday-update install and all is well. I guess I will just wait a week or so , and try it again.
Would really like to hear back from others and of their experience.