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bobland

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 51

Buck Naked System

I'm having some problems with Blender that I'm unable to resolve.  Specifically, I can't get Blender to find my plugins.   Over the past year I've loaded and unloaded numerous progams and environment.  I don't know if I have a mass of conflicting file.  What I'd like to do before I do an entirely new install is to see if there is a way I can return my current installation to a state as if I had just installed it. 

My home dir is on a separate partition so I don't mind reinstalling the few programs I actually use.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Burt

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: Buck Naked System

Suppose you find a way to do this and Blender still doesn't work properly. If you're anything like me, then in that situation you'd end up doing a full re-install anyway just to make sure the "pseudo-reinstall" didn't miss anything.

In my experience it's better to do things the slightly longer but more complete way, because it can actually save time in the end. Especially with an Arch install since it is so quick anyway

Well that's just my tuppence.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Buck Naked System

Oh no, don't reinstall ...  There are only three probable issues that could be going on here.

There is a problem with the configuration in your home directory.  Try backing up your hidden directory contents and see what happens.  I'm guessing that with blender, it's ~/.blender, so rename the directory to ~/.blender.backup and see what happens.
There is a problem with the program files.  This is probably not the case, but try checking out where all the files are located with a pacman -Ql.  Then do a pacman -R and see if there are any remaining files lingering in there making default configuration of the program.  It's probably not this because you usually have to be superuser to make modifications to files in program folders.
There is a problem with the dependencies.  Perhaps there is a corrupted file in one of your dependencies, incompatible versions that are headbutting, or even one of the two things listed above that has to do with a specific dependency itself.  Try removing dependencies with a pacman -Rd and reinstalling them.

If none of these things work, well, you've pretty much examined everything from A-Z, so theoretically, the problem would still occur on a reinstall ...

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Buck Naked System

It seems like the source of many Blender problems is a corrupt or incompatible .B.blend file. synthead's approach seems very sensible to me.