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That CD build was a piece of crap

1. The thing I followed to try to get xorg-profiles running on startup doesn't seem to have worked. But then, I can't really tell as xorg-profiles doesn't even manage to create its log file (see 3 below).

2. When I copied over the xorg-profiles script from my internal hard drive to the chroot to ensure that I had the latest copy, I actually overwrote the latest copy with an earlier copy.

3. After I did that, I forgot to make it owned by root, and also forget to setuid it. So it was running as ordinary user, failing to create a log file in a root-accessible area and of course failing to replace the faulty xorg.conf file with the good one.

What a complete waste of time. Oh sure, I learnt a lot (like "think before you squash"), but this is ridiculous. I need to document things a lot more; otherwise how are other developers going to take over maintanance of parts of the distro?

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