Breezy broke
15 Oct 2005Aaaannnndddd it’s screwed. I got home from a BBQ with friends from church at about 10 last night and switched my desktop [joah/home.joahua.com] on to be greeted with an X.org error screen. Fun fun. Linux sure knows how to ruin an otherwise-good evening.
Ah well, I’d already made one whole system migration sans any difficulty, with only a reboot to consider, so I’m pretty happy with the mileage I’ve got out of it thus far. Just think, if I’d tried that with a Windows system, well… it would have had maybe a month to live!
I tried to get X.org working again this morning, but NVidia’s Linux 7667 driver is being a bitch (and 7676 is worse) with my kernel sources, so I think I’ll just grab the ISOs and reinstall from scratch. I keep my home directory on a physically separate disc, so it’ll be relatively painless… but I think I’ll hold off a few days, probably until Thursday (and then, English Advanced is over forever!! Or, maybe not forever.), so there’s one less distraction.
Now, if I start downloading the ISOs from Ubuntu’s core server today, they should be ready just in time for installation on Thursday! Heh. Mind you, that’s probably not a great idea seeing as we had a blackout yesterday (local distro snafu, nothing major, but it has me recognising blackouts as a reality now: that was the first we’ve had for… a few years, local circuit breakers/RCDs excepted. Power in the eastern suburbs is pretty good.)… I’d rather wait until the memory of that fades before leaving stuff on for extended periods of time. Really should spend a bit of money on surge protected powerboards.