> -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Miller > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:04 PM > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Chuck Cole wrote: > > > The "upgrades" I've been getting from Microsoft over the last year seem > > to break various features of legacy stuff... > > I know. But it also happens in the GNU/Linux world. I just had a note on > my Ubuntu desktop machine telling me I had to reboot (that is not good > because I should almost never have to reboot and it is a big hassle). So > I rebooted and Gnome would not come back up. It said that it couldn't > find pulse-session. Well, that's because I uninstalled it. > Unfortunately, the uninstaller didn't know to delete one of the X11 > initialization files. I had no idea what was going on but I happened to > know a few tricks that I learned recently. So I started with... > <snipped> > ...which solved my problem. > > It was a small problem, but the effect would have been devastating if I > was lacking just a little bit of knowledge. An newer newbie would have > had a heck of a time. I have had similar problems with Ubuntu and would have been stumped by that, BUT I have several computers and know that solutions are "not hard to find" in Linux while they will be hard to find and may be nearly impossible to fully reverse in Windows. Chuck