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Upgrade Warnings / Re: Window Re-size (double headed arrow cursor) missing after upgrade today.
« Last post by onepiece on 2025/12/26, 03:47:14 »Hello hendrikL
Thank you for your suggestion. Per your suggestion, I added a new user (admin level user). Adding user was a success, but, when I went to the menu to "switch user", my screen would go black and freeze (cursor was free though). Also, when I tried to type either the new user...or the old user in the login box, the same thing happened: black screen hang with movable cursor.
There MUST be something MUCH more broken with my main install than what I first thought. Could it be a build up of CRUFT because I've been using the original SHOULDER OF GIANTS distro (successfully upgrading and using it) for nearly 3 years? Who knows....
In the spirit of curiosity and experimentation . . . I decided to create a NEW Virtual Machine (using a fresh SHINE ON install) on VirtualBox. On the fresh install, I DID get the double-headed cursor even after "the normal" apt update && apt upgrade commands (2 or 3 cycles of getting my fresh install up to date) were done.
HOWEVER.... there were 600+ packages that COULD NOT be installed using the routine apt update && apt upgrade command, so, I used the "apt full-upgrade" command. Most of those 600 packages WERE installed using the "apt full-upgrade" command. BUT....and its a BIG BUT....
BINGO !! My double headed cursor DISAPPEARED on the fresh install after using the "apt full-upgrade" command. This befuddles me. Luckily, I made a virtual machine clone of my fresh install of SHINE ON before I applied the "apt full-upgrade" command. I figured I could use this clone to experiment with if you or another community member suggest an alternative to using the "apt full-upgrade" command in order to get the 600 packages installed. Thank you.
PS - WOW during the new install of SHINE ON I saw your name hendrikL so many times recognizing your many contributions over the years! Thank you for your decades of work on Siduction.
Thank you for your suggestion. Per your suggestion, I added a new user (admin level user). Adding user was a success, but, when I went to the menu to "switch user", my screen would go black and freeze (cursor was free though). Also, when I tried to type either the new user...or the old user in the login box, the same thing happened: black screen hang with movable cursor.
There MUST be something MUCH more broken with my main install than what I first thought. Could it be a build up of CRUFT because I've been using the original SHOULDER OF GIANTS distro (successfully upgrading and using it) for nearly 3 years? Who knows....
In the spirit of curiosity and experimentation . . . I decided to create a NEW Virtual Machine (using a fresh SHINE ON install) on VirtualBox. On the fresh install, I DID get the double-headed cursor even after "the normal" apt update && apt upgrade commands (2 or 3 cycles of getting my fresh install up to date) were done.
HOWEVER.... there were 600+ packages that COULD NOT be installed using the routine apt update && apt upgrade command, so, I used the "apt full-upgrade" command. Most of those 600 packages WERE installed using the "apt full-upgrade" command. BUT....and its a BIG BUT....
BINGO !! My double headed cursor DISAPPEARED on the fresh install after using the "apt full-upgrade" command. This befuddles me. Luckily, I made a virtual machine clone of my fresh install of SHINE ON before I applied the "apt full-upgrade" command. I figured I could use this clone to experiment with if you or another community member suggest an alternative to using the "apt full-upgrade" command in order to get the 600 packages installed. Thank you.
PS - WOW during the new install of SHINE ON I saw your name hendrikL so many times recognizing your many contributions over the years! Thank you for your decades of work on Siduction.
