http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11817/
As a result my OS probably has random tweaks and changes that I've done but later forgot.

A program that check of all the settings of graphic, drivers and libraries and all the file that are user configurable would be great to make sure I haven't screwed anything up.

[73 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #11817


]]> en-us Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:41:14 +0000 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:43:13 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11817/ Should not be that problematic.]]> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:34:27 +0000 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:58:33 +0000
If i'm an expert, i can know where to find the reasons of a bug, but if i'm a newbie and i see a problem, i don't know where to find. If i'm a newbie, i should post a gzipped report on launchpad to help bug tracking.]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:10:09 +0000 To re-install a broken package:
apt-get --reinstall install my_broken_package

To find broken packages follow step 4 of here:
http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/recovery.html]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:36:48 +0000 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:43:13 +0000