I would just get a CD of the old distro, back up my data, zero fill and reinstall. That's what I did when Kubuntu 10.50 turned out to be chaos. You can do that in a couple of hours while you are watching TV. To try to downgrade everything sounds like mission impossible.
Mark On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 23:19 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > On 2011-05-08 18:56, Luther Woodrum wrote: > ... > > A freind chose the upgrade to 11.04 option from 10.04.1. > > Now he cannot access any of the files from the file manager, even though > > they are all there r/w from the command line. > > > > The FM reports I/O error for anything. None of the applications work > > either. > > Wow. That's pretty ugly. > > > Is there a simple way to downgrade to 10.04.1 from the 10.04.1 DVD > > by preserving all the files? > > > > It seems like it should work. > > It isn't as easy as that, because one of the basic presumptions that > Linux package manager systems use is that you want to keep the latest > version of packages installed. So in doing this you'd switch back to > the 10.04.1 repository, do an 'apt-get update', but then even if you > choose to do an "upgrade", the system will not downgrade to everything > in the repository -- you have to go into the package manager and choose > packages to downgrade -- individually. This will then likely cause > conflicts with other packages that require a later version of the things > you're downgrading, and so you then need to manually need to downgrade > those -- and so on. Going "forward" is much easier than going "back" is. > > So yeah, you can do it ... but it needs to be done carefully and by > someone who knows what they're doing, and likely needs to be done in stages. > -- Mark Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011 Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting
