[resolved]Pacman undo

Convergence · 2008-12-09 23:58:05

I was stupid, and just ran "pacman -Syu" without reading first. (this system doesn't like the new xorg) Does anybody know a one liner, or a short script that will undo all of the changes made to my system in the last couple of days using pacman.log? I tried just forcing the old version of xorg-server, but that doesn't work, so I want to completely reverse all the damage of the last couple of days. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Convergence (2008-12-10 05:12:29)

Daenyth · 2008-12-10 00:08:15

Just read the news/wiki and fix it instead of rolling it back.

Convergence · 2008-12-10 00:28:19

Unfortunately, I've already read this, and from what I understand, it is incompatible with my graphics card. Thus my need to rollback.

Daenyth · 2008-12-10 00:31:41

Well, there's no built-in feature to do so, but as long as you haven't cleared your package cache it should be simple. Just pacman -U the old versions of the kernel, xorg-server, and nvidia{,utils} for your card (assuming you have an older nvidia card)

Alternately, use the nv or vesa drivers as the wiki said, and tell nvidia to release drivers that work with the new Xorg.

Convergence · 2008-12-10 05:12:07

Solved (I think)

I used information in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60018

I say "I think" because, like i said, I had to do this remotely, but it appears that X, and related processes are running. Thanks.

By the way, nvidia is not the culprit here, the machine runs an onboard intel gpu.

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