Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 17:22:15 -0700, Grant wrote: Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. /var contains important information about your installed packages for portage. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-15 Thread Grant
Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. /var contains important information about your installed packages for portage. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs. If it fails to

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-15 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 06:46 -0700, Grant wrote: Good catch. I get this last: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d' What do you think I should do? rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep should do it; portage will then

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-15 Thread Grant
Good catch. I get this last: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d' What do you think I should do? rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep should do it; portage will then regenerate the cache. It looks like that fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-14 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/14/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I meant to execute 'rm -rf var' but I hit 'rm -rf /var' instead. I realized my mistake after about 6 or 7 seconds when it was taking too long and I hit Ctrl+C. Everything looks OK, but something must be gone. What would you guys do in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-14 Thread Taylor Morrow
Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs. If it fails to boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

2005-05-14 Thread Grant
Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs. If it fails to boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo. Alright thanks guys. I'm booted