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Offline fizzdigit

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how to recover from a bad application extension
« on: November 13, 2010, 07:18:18 PM »
I downloaded an untested synaptics.tcz (for synaptic laptop touchpads) and on reboot I was unable to boot into a gui. so how does one "remove" extensions from cli and then restore all the others?

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 09:00:40 PM »
Edit the onboot.lst file and remove the synaptics.tcz line.
Then reboot.

Offline Juanito

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Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 10:26:19 PM »
the synaptics extension is required with Xorg-7.4, but is included in the Xorg-7.5 extension.

I'll modify the info file to make this clearer.

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2010, 12:59:45 AM »
A good practice could be to backup .xsession while running Xvesa from base (and also while running any alternative X server), so it gets very easy to switch Xserver on the fly.

If not present, one could produce an initial .xsession by booting with 'norestore base'
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Niklaus Wirth - A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

Offline fizzdigit

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Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2010, 05:43:59 PM »
ok cool. thanks a lot. I got it figured out. and now I back up every time I do anything system wide. Sort of like a "last known good configuration" deal.  ;D

I am super appreciative of all the help this is an awesome forum and I am in love with TC. I've dreamed of a linux distro like this.  :D