On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > - I went in and removed two files from the kernal: > - appletalk.ko > - ipddp.ko
Oh! If these files were in something like /lib/modules/<your-kernel>/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.ko and something similar to this for ipddp.ko then you probably just deleted some kernel drivers ... > - when I rebooted everything seemed to be OK although it still tried > to set up services for Appletalk but timed out and booted OK - > meaning all my settings and most of the software seemed to work OK > (Firefox, Evolution, Open Office, Synaptic Package manager, and most > of the system applets seemed fine on cursory examination) > ################################################# > - so my questions are now: > - should I replace the two appletalk .ko files I removed? if so, > how? from the source of the kernel? or is there some other way > to fix this? I'd ask the package management system to check its own status: dpkg -C What does it tell you? If it won't make any suggestions I'd try to reinstall the kernel: The dry-run (nothing should be changed with the following because of the --simulate flag): apt-get --simulate --reinstall install <your-kernel> To really try to reinstall it re-run the command above without the "--simulate" option ... After this: Don't forget to compare your yaboot.conf to the files in / and /boot, or wherever you have your kernel or initrd or whatever ... If you think all's OK with them I'd run again ybin -v > - now that I removed the two (most likely culprits) netatalk dirs > this has now created a problem with the package manager i.e. it can't > remove the package but it sees that some of the bits are still > there...how would I use 'apt-get' to correct this situation? will it > remove partial packages? if not what utility would handle this? > - is there a rescue package for handling this sort of muck up that I > can use for correcting things? .. the same: I'd try to reinstall the netatalk package the same way as suggested above for the kernel ... With no guarantees it will work ... :) Good luck Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
