<div dir="ltr"><div>> I rarely do in-place major version upgrades. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Yup. The bits and pieces I've got on hand to do it differently would've taken some set-up work of their own (which is one reason I'd been procrastinating on the project). Getting stuck with zoom breakage-on-upgrade motivated me to go after it directly just to get it done. <br></div><div><br></div><div>As expected there weren't any major problems with a new Debian stable. Though there were a bunch of minor one's that surprised me... like, gdm3 seems to have lost the ability to choose a window manager to use for the session-- I think it now defaults to wayland and any X11 stuff is buried (and changing that would take a manual edit of a configuration file). I just installed a different dungeon master ("wdm") to get around the problem.<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM David Christensen <<a href="mailto:dpchrist@holgerdanske.com">dpchrist@holgerdanske.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/9/25 13:02, Joseph Brenner wrote:<br>
> Zoom won't let me get into the meeting unless I upgrade first.<br>
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On 2/10/25 01:51, Joseph Brenner wrote:<br>
> Well hey, I got my fix to work... and it only took me until 1:30am <br>
> to get here.<br>
> <br>
> Did a bunch of sysadmin stuff I've been putting off-- full backups, <br>
> full system upgrade. That zoom .deb is *supposed* to work with<br>
> Debian versions 10+, but I needed to be on version 12, myself.<br>
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On 2/10/25 16:15, Joseph Brenner wrote:<br>
> I eventually fixed the problem by doing a full upgrade to Debian 12, <br>
> which as it happens took forever to complete.<br>
> <br>
> (I think I may go back to reinstalling from scratch, it's probably <br>
> faster, if only because it skips unpacking the accumulated cruft of <br>
> packages I haven't really been using.)<br>
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I am glad you fixed your computer. Laptops with only one drive are <br>
always a challenge (compromise?).<br>
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I rarely do in-place major version upgrades. A fresh install of a <br>
stable OS onto a secure erased SSD in a major brand computer almost <br>
always produces a good result, and eliminates the possibility of old <br>
cruft causing issues.<br>
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David<br>
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