| Stephen Gran on Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:48:15 -0500 |
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:44:24PM -0500, Mike Leone said: > Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 11/17/02 at 13:30: > > > And, back to Mike - if it's 'just' the /usr/ partition trashed, it > > may > > Haven't seen errors from any others. I'm thinking filesystem > corruption, because I had to do a "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" a number > of times, until it finally finished. It kept "aborting". > > > You can try booting with the rescue CD, reformatting that partition, > > and reading back in your package selections with a combination of > > dpkg --set-selections and apt-get install --reinstall. Painful, but > > it may be easier than a full reinstall. > > How can I do that from the rescue CD shell? I'm not visualizing this > set of steps properly. You would have to boot the rescue CD, format your /usr/ partition, and then mount it somewhere. Then copy in dpkg, apt-get and the necessary libs to get them going, which are: /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /lib/libm.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (the last 3 you should still have, hopefully) Then you can mount the / partition, chroot in, and hopefully get dpkg and apt-get to restore your box with something like: ($file being the output of dpkg --get-selections) for $i in `cat $file | cut -f1` ; do apt-get install --reinstall $i` ; done This is, of course, assuming that you have a second box, running similar versions, as the one that crashed. Or maybe even another box that you could use to download them, and then copy to a floppy or something and then move them over. I have sid running on one of my boxes, so if you need it, I can sendfile them, or put them online somewhere, if you want to give that a go. HTH and good luck, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | Every country has the government it | |steve@lobefin.net | deserves. -- Joseph De Maistre | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attachment:
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