Just one of those days!

[hazel]

Have you ever had a day when nothing goes right?

I had to attend a funeral at 12.00 but I had half an hour before that so I went into Debian Testing to do my weekly update (or as much of it as I thought I could get in). One of the packages updated was grub. I didn't like their defaults for menu lag time and option so I edited /etc/default/grub and ran update-grub. And I got a syntax error!

I couldn't do anything to fix it without being late for the funeral, so I left it all. When I got back, I tried to find out what was going wrong. It turned out to be my custom script for getting into Crux; if I made that unexecutable, everything worked OK. But then of course, I couldn't boot into Crux, only Debian.

So I filed a bug and, while I was doing so, my dog asked to go out and I let him out into the garden. And of course I forgot that he was out there because I was so obsessed with this boot problem. He was bored so he found a way out. (I knew about his secret exit and had plugged it up but he had enough time to pull away the timbers.).

I was worried sick so I dropped everything, took some chicken scraps and his harness and went in search of him. There is a maze of little bramble-clogged alleyways between the gardens in my road; it's a paradise for a runaway. Finally, down one of them, I heard a man's voice saying "Good dog!" so I called out "Have you got my dog?". He had, so I reached his harness over the gate and this nice man harnessed him for me and passed him over.

I wanted to skin him alive but that wouldn't have encouraged him to come back next time, so I called him a good dog and gave him some chicken, then took him home.

To avoid the risk of making my whole machine unbootable, I've taken Crux out of the menu, so for the time being I only have Debian. I supposed whatever went wrong will be fixed soon enough. That's the penalty for using bleeding edge software. Grrr!

[daacosta]

What's your dog's breed?

[MASONTX]

My sympathies Hazel. My wife and I have a Pomeranian who is an escape expert, so I know how trying it can be.

[hazel]

What's your dog's breed?

He's a Jack Russell (photo attached). Apparently running away is one of many delightful habits this breed is known for.

I've since found that I can get into Crux using a grub floppy so all is not lost.

[oz]

Sorry all that happened to you. I had one of those days yesterday, too. Everything that I touched went wrong all day long.

Thank goodness it's a new day today!

[sgosnell]

We've all had those days. They make up for the seldom experienced days when everything goes right.

[jayd512]

It seems like I mostly have one of those days most days of the week!

Glad you got him back safe, hazel. He's a nice lookin' little guy.