On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:22:56 +0000 Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
Any ideas? Thanks.
Go to the backup? You do have a backup?
No. This is a brand new machine being prepared. Snapshots should be perfectly sufficient for this case. No user data either.
After a possibly ill-advised sideload upgrade/fix of a perl app, I tried to do a btrfs rollback
Normally installing or changing a perl program shouldn't affect the system at all, thanks to the clever way the PERLPATH is searched. Unless you tried to monkey patch a system-installed perl component? (Don't do that, BTW, install a local copy first from CPAN before patching it if still necessary).
No. This *was* from CPAN. Unfortunately the 1st fix to a previously working program doesn't work with the calling program. I can tell from the snapshots which files were created/changed/etc but there are a ton of them and I was trying to avoid picking through and deleting them; just rolling back would be nice and easy. This is what snapshots are supposed to be for, no? So why did I end up with a dead display manager? FWIW, the original 'fix' has been 'fixed' 4 times since last night 8-/ so I think I will just wait until someone in factory catches up to it, they are only 2 of those revs behind at last check, just a few hours. Amazing. I just have/had no patience. Another FWIW, the perl is finance::quote (a.k.a. perl-Finance-Quote in software.opensuse) and the reason for all the activity is that yahoo / verizon has killed without warning their decades old free api that provided financial quotes and that also killed a lot of finance programs that depended on it. So the switch is on to convert to a new free api provider (yes! there is one.) Ralph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org