[sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 02/09 at 1pm PST

[Joseph Brenner]

> I rarely do in-place major version upgrades.

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.

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.


On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com>
wrote:

> On 2/9/25 13:02, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > Zoom won't let me get into the meeting unless I upgrade first.
>
>
> On 2/10/25 01:51, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > Well hey, I got my fix to work... and it only took me until 1:30am
> > to get here.
> >
> > Did a bunch of sysadmin stuff I've been putting off-- full backups,
> > full system upgrade.  That zoom .deb is *supposed* to work with
> > Debian versions 10+, but I needed to be on version 12, myself.
>
>
> On 2/10/25 16:15, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > I eventually fixed the problem by doing a full upgrade to Debian 12,
> > which as it happens took forever to complete.
> >
> > (I think I may go back to reinstalling from scratch, it's probably
> > faster, if only because it skips unpacking the accumulated cruft of
> > packages I haven't really been using.)
>
>
> I am glad you fixed your computer.  Laptops with only one drive are
> always a challenge (compromise?).
>
>
> I rarely do in-place major version upgrades.  A fresh install of a
> stable OS onto a secure erased SSD in a major brand computer almost
> always produces a good result, and eliminates the possibility of old
> cruft causing issues.
>
>
> David
>
>
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