Hey gang, Still puzzling over how this happened. During the upgrade I got a message about an install script not being able to make a sym-link in /usr/X11R6/bin because the directory was "full" and needed to be "emptied".
So I moved it to /root/backup/usr_X11R6/bin where a copy still resides. before the final attempt at the upgrade I noticed a bunch of files in /usr/X11R6/bin that weren't there before. Not sure where they came from, I hadn't copied all those files in there and I certainly hadn't done a sym-link. So I deleted them and finished the upgrade with no errors. Checked /usr/X11R6/bin and didn't see a symlink...uh-oh the upgrade lied to me, what does that mean. Copied the saved copy back to /usr/X11R6/bin and went back to work or tried to. That's when I noticed a whole lots of stuff wasn't working and a whole lot of commands were MIA including "locate". Hmmm, checked /usr/bin and it held the contents of /usr/X11R6/bin and did not have the 3000 some odd binaries and sym-links that should be in there. That's kind of bad. So what happened, did I do an incredibly bone-headed thing? Certainly possible, but I wonder if the upgrade scripts somehow went up an extra level in the directory tree while making a sym-link and fooled me. I'm pretty darn sure that the directory I was in was /usr/X11R6/bin as I make a habit of doing a pwd before doing an rm just do double check the what the system prompt is telling me. It may have had something to do with the three times I tried to do the upgrade using synaptic before I resorted to manually backing up and restoring /usr/X11R6/bin and somehow the scripts got confused. Anyway, if it wasn't me and was the scripts this is a very bad thing and needs to be fixed so I figured I would post it. PS Anyone know a convenient way to restore /usr/bin on an AMD64? Is there a way to "refresh" an install? Thanks. hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
