[Cuis] Display Driver Missing (not)
Phil B
pbpublist at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 15:08:07 CST 2016
Definitely move /home to its own partition... it will save you significant
aggravation down the road. Since your reworking you partitions, I'd also
suggest an extra 20-50 GB alternate root partition to use as an emergency
boot/recovery volume that you can also use to take new releases/other
distros on a test drive with (a separate /home will fit in quite nicely too)
On Dec 13, 2016 7:39 PM, "Dan Norton" <dnorton at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Thanks Phil, I probably will take your suggestion after capturing what's
> been building up in /home. This seems to be a good opportunity to put /home
> in a separate partition with the next install, unless someone talks me out
> of it :-).
>
> On 12/12/2016 06:38 PM, Phil B wrote:
>
>> If it were me I'd just reinstall Linux unless you want to go through the
>> pain of fixing whatever dependencies got broken. The good news is it
>> sounds like you've learned early on not to use dpkg directly as it will
>> trivially and quietly allow you to break your install since it doesn't
>> deal with dependencies. synaptic (GUI), aptitude (text ui) and apt-get
>> are all better package management options unless you know precisely what
>> and why you are doing something from a package standpoint.
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2016 6:00 PM, "Dan Norton" <dnorton at mindspring.com
>> <mailto:dnorton at mindspring.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to move off Doze7 to Debian Linux (jessie). Things were
>> going great with Cuis until this noob used dpkg to remove some
>> "unneeded" lib* files. In one command entry 100 or so were removed
>> and after that:
>>
>> d at debian:~/cuis$ cogspur/cogspurlinux/squeak
>> Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/an.image
>> produced:
>>
>> could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
>> - check that
>> /home/d/cuis/cogspur/cogspurlinux/lib/squeak/5.0-3397//vm-
>> display-X11.so
>> exists, or
>> - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
>> - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
>> Aborted
>>
>> This did not occur prior to removal with dpkg and the file
>> "vm-display-X11" is exactly where it's always been, so I think Spur
>> needed one or more of those lib* files I deleted. BTW, GNOME, email,
>> browser, gedit seem unaffected.
>>
>> Any help in identifying what Spur needs to find that driver would be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> - Dan
>>
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