 I recently did some misguided something resulting in recursive hardlinked directories … with very, very long path names being the end result of that. Today I want to backup my disk. Borg Backup (I have 1.1.9) complains indirectly about those long filenames. A stat call fails with "Too long file name". I run "borg check" on the archive and it fails with a KeyError. I'm not feeling too good anymore. 4 comments
I booted up an old MacBook Pro and downloaded a Debian installer image, put it on a stick, moved that one to the old laptop, booted from it, entered the rescue system, which allowed me to decrypt the disk and all that, and finally to move the libcrypt1 files to the right place! And then I rebooted the laptop and I was able to log in. I am amazed. Running sudo apt --fix-broken install right now. We'll see how it goes. I think I managed to migrate from PureOS to Debian Bookworm! Yay! The system is still missing packages and all that, but I think I'm going to keep it. Phew! |
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I managed to do the backup I wanted so that I could do the next thing: migrate from PureOS to Debian. And I think I failed big time. I still have a session, I can start Emacs and Firefox, but the terminal is hosed, and I can't run sudo anymore. 😱
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-18-from-pureos-to-debian