uzbl, the return - day5

uzbl, the return, day5

well, after my reporting fail yesterday, i've done a faaaar bigger fail today.

the story goes something like this...

i was having loads of fun playing around with change_style.sh and various .css files i'd made/copied. i liked the idea of making every webpage use the style i chose for my webpage.

it was working great.

then dipiwee in ##customize made a second request for screenshots of my customisations, and i thought, "ok".

"ok" as it turns out, lead to a whole load of disruption....

so... i go to ompload with my newly created batch of screenshots, but :O oh no! omploader wont load!

most obvious reason of course being... it doesnt like something i've done in my tweakings... so i try to roll back a few of the changes... still no omp. so i fiddle with my style changes, n the script n my config a few more times, all with the same result, no ompldr.org.

now i've fallen way down the labrynth of changes... and still no omp...

so i try imgur, to see if it can handle change_style.sh...

yup... so i get my images uploaded.

...wait... now what... seems facebook and several other pages are now refusing to load! oh noes!

what have i done. ... and then i discover the reason i couldnt visit omplr.org, was because it was down!

DOH! so all those haphazzard wild tweakings n changes i made.... i was fixing something that wasnt broken!!!

so.. i try to fix my borked fix for a while.... still, no matter what i did, i couldnt get facebook (and a few other pages) to play nice anymore.

always telling me it timed out, n couldnt connect, offering me an utterly futile "try again" button.

i could change the styles all i wanted... n get that message in default, or any number of my tweaked styles... and i couldnt find where it was that i'd changed something so far as to make it not load facebook. i could switch off all the scripts, revert to the original default config... and still get that message.

so... i decided to uninstall, and reinstall uzbl-git...

nope... same message!


so i decided to uninstall and reinstall a different version uzbl-dfb-git ~ nope, that version didnt play nice.

so i decided to install another version... the experimental git branch.

oh lordy, that doesnt work nice at all... broken keybinds n other freakyness.

so, i go back to uzbl-git and as i had started to suspect... same message....

so... i get brutal n serious with it....

i backup all my configs n scripts, and then i sudo updatedb && locate uzbl, and from that list, i extracted everything but my backups of the configs i'd made, and add them ALL to a sudo rm -rf.

... i knew it wa wrong, i did it anyway.

i was desperate. i rly wanted whatever it was that was causing this fail on facebook gone.

alas... it took my whole home directory with it! and a few system directories too!


time to update my entry in the "whats the stupidest mistake you've made" thread.


classic moment of "i know this will likely break things, i'll do it anyway"... i must be missing some neuropathways from my frontal lobe.


so...

instead of fixing this tiny little problem, that wasnt a problem at all... i've ended up with a hosed system.

moment i reboot, i doubt i'll manage to boot into this system again.

:/

i could try restoring an old backup from short ago... but since my home dir was mostly just symlinks now, i'm not rly losing anything more by opting for a complete reinstall of arch... 'cept maybe a day of my life.

still... all's well on my toorox workstation. *sigh*

oh well, at least i got a couple screnshots outta it.
http://imgur.com/a/kT6hY

:/

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y'knoa, i've always heard it said you have to be careful in linux, and that you can very easily completely destroy your system... and in the 7 years i've been using linux, i'd never actually experienced it until now. ...unless you count that time i intentionally put to test, the claims that "ubuntu doesnt let you do that".

well, this pebkac error will only make me stronger. :)



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1. start from scratch