G T Smith wrote:
....then (regularly) make a backup of the file ~/.xine so that should some upgrade/update to your installation of oS 11.0/11.1 stops xine from working then use the backup of /.xine to restore xine to a working
Basil Chupin wrote: program.
Don't ask me what the reason for the cockup is. All I can say is that some upgrades to 11.0 were put through earlier and (immediately) afterwards I could not use xine to view digital TV - and I was watching TV all day until I turned it off to do the upgrades. Replacing .xine with a backup (a lucky copy for use on another system!) made it all work again.
Ciao.
I would have thought it good practice to to do a backup before applying any update at any time, one of the reasons I will not touch any form of automatic update procedure...
There are 2 directories I always backup before any upgrades/updates are allowed and they are ~/.thunderbird and .mozilla. In all the years of using SuSE I have never found it necessary to backup anything (except for above and also see further) before upgrades but now it appears that the time has come to be really prudent when dealing with the latest offerings for oS 11.x and doing backups has now become a necessity. (I backup my home directory once a week but now it will be done before any upgrades are done.) Ciao. -- "With the portion of mankind that is above average one may speak of higher things; with those below it, one may not." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org