unbelievably stupid mistake - i broke /usr/lib need help
Alastair McKinley
amckinley03 at qub.ac.uk
Fri Jan 6 00:32:28 UTC 2006
Peter Skensved wrote:
> I would start by backing up /root, /boot, /etc and /var
>plus anything installed in /usr/local and /home . Next get a list of
>all installed RPMs ( rpm -qa | sort or rpm -a --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort )
>and save them somewhere. With that information you can probably reconstruct
>your laptop if everything fails ( this assumes you always install binaries
>from RPM files and stuff from random tar files in /usr/local )
>
> Once you have done that run rpm -Va and save the output. This
>will give you a list of missing files. Try installing the missing
>ones with rpm -Uv --force . If that works then heck for .rpmnew files
>and try reconstructing any munged configuration files.
>
> I've successfully done the above with a really clobbered file system
>on a laptop.
>
>
> peter
>----
>
>Peter Skensved Email : peter at SNO.Phy.QueensU.CA
>Dept. of Physics,
>Queen's University,
>Kingston, Ontario,
>Canada
>
>
>
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your advice. I managed to install enough libraries manually
to get rpm up and running again.
What will the rpm -Uv --force command actually do? I looked at the
output of rpm -Va and it was shocking, it took about 3 minutes to finish!
Best regards,
Alastair
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