Feeling stupid for upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 (was Upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10, now resolution stuck at 1600x1200)

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Leo Mauler wrote:
> --- Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I also don't think there's a rollback:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/
>> 15631 
>> But you can try:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DowngradeHowto 
>> as linked to from that first link.
> 
> I'm thinking I'm going to want to re-install
> completely if it comes to downgrading Ubuntu, mostly
> because of the last line after the last step in
> downgrading Ubuntu:
> 
> "The last step probably will end up a catastrophic
> mess of incompletely installed packages."

I don't know about ubuntu, but I had to downgrade a couple of debian
systems and was able to do so without much incident.

I was trying to pull in a couple of packages from testing or unstable
and still learning my way around the apt configuration files.  Anyway, I
wound up with the whole system about 1/2 upgraded to testing and/or
unstable, rather than just installing the one or two packages I was
interested in.

Bumping the Pin-Priority of the desired version (stable) over 1000 and
doing a series of dist-upgrades eventually got everything back to normal.

Proper configuration of /etc/apt/preferences then kept things that way!
:)

Good luck!

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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