Help!

I'm struggling with this one, trying to understand WHY it broke:

OK, so I did several updates, and this resulted in several files in /etc/ that needed to be verified/updated (._cfg0000_XXXX files). So, I took a look and decided I wanted to keep my old files rather than merge the new ones ... and I deleted the ._cfg0000_* files. Now my machine won't boot. It complains that there are missing links to several files in /etc (which all coincidentally were files that had a corresponding ._cfg0000_XXXXX file that I deleted).

What was stupid about what I did? How might I recover/regenerate that which is missing to avoid doing a complete reinstall? I suppose I could boot from the cd & chroot into my install and re-emerge those packages, if it came down to it. Is that what is necessary?



Thanks in advance,
Brandon Young


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