Upgrade Pains
I’m not sure what happened last night, but when I got up this morning, my development system was showing the log-in screen. I leave it running overnight, so that it can do it’s daily backups, so the screen should have been in low-power mode, and once awakened it should have been on the system-locked screen, prompting me for just my password before letting me into the session that I had running last night. Furthermore, the log-in prompt had a bunch of garbage characters already entered into it. That and a few white cat-hairs suggest that whatever the problem was, it was caused by one of our feline “children,” who has taken to sleeping on the desk next to the heat exhaust on this system — a practice we’ll have to discourage now, I think.
When I logged in and tried to start up the Eclipse framework (which, as mentioned previously on this blog, I use for all of my software development under Linux), I was told that it couldn’t start. After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get it up and running, but I’d lost the Cusp extension that I use for Lisp development, and nothing I did would bring it back. Continue reading ‘Upgrade Pains’ »