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Random gripes and doting(ish)
Dec. 21st, 2005 02:54 pmThere was electrical testing here yesterday. I had logged off both my desktops, with an eye to them being trivially turned off in the morning before the RCDs were tripped.
Guess what happened instead.
So, after running around after a bunch ofmonkeys sparkies — who blithely turned off floors without even letting us know where they were so that we could, as planned, warn anyone to shut down or be shut down — I got back to my PCs, turned them on, and discovered that one of them wasn't coming up properly. The one I use for everything. Some fiddling (including several iterations of telinit 1) and a great deal of (manual) fscking later (the /home partition was comprehensively hosed), I sorta kinda got my desktop back.
Except, KDE lost amost all of its settings.
Except, now thunderbird segfaults whenever I try and look at an email which is charset=UTF-8 ... which includes every single email to come out of the job tracking system. Which is kinda important for my job.
(muttermuttergrumblefeckingshite.)
I've rebuilt a KDE session I can live with, but thunderbird is still segfaulting, and I don't know why. Some muttering online about libxp, unless it's libfreetype, unless it's something else. Yes, I've done all the normal things, including reinstalling thunderbird, and all its dependancies from scratch. Bastard.
Update: mutterbloodydependanciesgrumble. There were a couple of libraries in there which I had reflexively updated while upgrading to firefox 1.5 (which necessitated setting unstable in the /etc/apt/sources.list) which I shouldn't have upgraded. The three likely culprits, which I downgraded to the testing versions and the problem went away, are: libc6, libglib2.0-0, and (the most likely culprit) libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1, which I put back to v2.3.2-1.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, treasure your ignorance. If you do, and it's useful information, you're welcome.
In other news, I went in to check on Abbi while she was being dressed by Mim this morning. Abbi saw me and said 'No Dad! Go 'way!!', so I covered my face and gave a couple of sobs and "Abbi doesn't like Daddy, oh no! *sob*".
Her reaction?
To chuckle, and say "Funny. Daddy cry. More cry!"
Hrmph. :-/
Guess what happened instead.
So, after running around after a bunch of
Except, KDE lost amost all of its settings.
Except, now thunderbird segfaults whenever I try and look at an email which is charset=UTF-8 ... which includes every single email to come out of the job tracking system. Which is kinda important for my job.
(muttermuttergrumblefeckingshite.)
I've rebuilt a KDE session I can live with, but thunderbird is still segfaulting, and I don't know why. Some muttering online about libxp, unless it's libfreetype, unless it's something else. Yes, I've done all the normal things, including reinstalling thunderbird, and all its dependancies from scratch. Bastard.
Update: mutterbloodydependanciesgrumble. There were a couple of libraries in there which I had reflexively updated while upgrading to firefox 1.5 (which necessitated setting unstable in the /etc/apt/sources.list) which I shouldn't have upgraded. The three likely culprits, which I downgraded to the testing versions and the problem went away, are: libc6, libglib2.0-0, and (the most likely culprit) libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1, which I put back to v2.3.2-1.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, treasure your ignorance. If you do, and it's useful information, you're welcome.
In other news, I went in to check on Abbi while she was being dressed by Mim this morning. Abbi saw me and said 'No Dad! Go 'way!!', so I covered my face and gave a couple of sobs and "Abbi doesn't like Daddy, oh no! *sob*".
Her reaction?
To chuckle, and say "Funny. Daddy cry. More cry!"
Hrmph. :-/
