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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: fizzdigit on November 13, 2010, 07:18:18 PM

Title: how to recover from a bad application extension
Post by: fizzdigit 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?

Title: Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
Post by: gerald_clark on November 13, 2010, 09:00:40 PM

Edit the onboot.lst file and remove the synaptics.tcz line.
Then reboot.

Title: Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
Post by: Juanito 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.

Title: Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
Post by: tinypoodle 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'

Title: Re: how to recover from a bad application extension
Post by: fizzdigit 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