packagekit killed my system :(

[sandyd]

Last night, I was fooling around with the xorg stuff, and I accidentally made a packaging error. The next thing I knew, packagekit, due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/586497 removed EVERYTHING related to xorg, because the packaging error was causing anything related to xorg to become un-upgradable (there was some kind of xorg security upgrade that packagekit was trying to install). As a result, because of xorg removal, 75% of the stuff on my system was removed :(, left with 45 packages.

I managed to get networkmanager working again, after a little tinkering, and now reinstalling...

[Frogs Hair]

Sorry to here it. Now ! about those glasses.........

[NightwishFan]

I would be careful doing anything that might involve a dist-upgrade like behavior. If you do not have network manager running, you can use ifconfig and iwconfig to do networking.

[madjr]

Last night, I was fooling around with the xorg stuff, and I accidentally made a packaging error. The next thing I knew, packagekit, due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/586497 removed EVERYTHING related to xorg, because the packaging error was causing anything related to xorg to become un-upgradable (there was some kind of xorg security upgrade that packagekit was trying to install). As a result, because of xorg removal, 75% of the stuff on my system was removed :(, left with 45 packages.

I managed to get networkmanager working again, after a little tinkering, and now reinstalling...

oopsies like this will be a thing of the past if we get btrfs snapshots implemented correctly

[sandyd]

Sorry to here it. Now ! about those glasses.........
everyones been asking :D

I got bored, and decided to do some gimp work...

[sandyd]

I would be careful doing anything that might involve a dist-upgrade like behavior. If you do not have network manager running, you can use ifconfig and iwconfig to do networking.
its actually becasue packagekit installs security updates automatically without asking the user.

[NightwishFan]

Oh. Ewwww. I would use center/synaptic instead. That is what I do on Debian KDE.

[mcooke1]

i
ts actually becasue packagekit installs security updates automatically without asking the user.

[sandyd]

i
mine looks the same. however, packagekit doesn't seem to follow the settings set in kpackagekit

[TheNessus]

I avoid GUI package managers in KDE. I either use apt-get or use synaptic if I want to read about some packages before installing.