On 03/05/12 13:35, Barry Drake wrote: > > The time I've been spending on the Ubuntu answers team has shown me > > that all kinds of nasties are occurring after an upgrade. In > > nearly every case, a clean install has been the best answer. > > I find this response very frustrating. It's not only inaccurate but it > means we'll never get to the bottom of the problem, so can never find > out how to fix it. > > If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed > direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When > everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the > state that Windows is in. Everyone thinks that's the solution, and it > isn't, by some margin. > > Thank you for that Alan, that's exactly why I'm persisting. I'm building a knowledgebase to allow me to fix such issues for my customers as efficiently as possible.
Here's an interesting one. I've logged in as a guest and been able to create a new account. I have renamed my home folder and used the new account to copy the contents of it's home folder into a new home folder for the old account. It still doesn't work so I now have one working admin account and the original still broken one which doesn't appear to be a config file issue.
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