Hello, Dale.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:12:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> I been working on the profile switch. I followed the directions in the
> news item up until the rm part in #12. I did a equery b for a few files
> in the two directories and it has files that equery shows belonging to
> packages. They are not orphans since they are owned. Here is a list of
> the files:
> root@fireball / # ls -al /lib32/
> total 3956
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jun 17 23:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 36864 Jun 17 01:18 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 17 19:25 cpp -> /usr/bin/cpp
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 19:46 dhcpcd
> drwxr-xr-x 70 root root 12288 Jun 17 19:19 firmware
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 19:21 gentoo
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 9 2010 grub
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 17 2010 .keep
[ .... ]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 773 Jun 17 02:51 tclooConfig.sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 17 03:22 terminfo -> ../share/terminfo
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 21:35 tmpfiles.d
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 06:50 upower
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 10:55 vdpau
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 Jun 17 03:26 xml2Conf.sh
> root@fireball / #
> As one can see, some of those could be important. I noticed grub,
> nvidia, dracut and others that could cause issues if they failed. Is it
> really safe to just rm them or did I miss something? Do I need to do
> something else not mentioned in the news item for this?
At this stage, /lib32 should be a symlink. I think that step 12 means
just the symlink should be removed, NOT all the stuff inside what it
points to.
So I think what you should do is:
$ rm /lib32
, but definitely NOT a recursive rm on that symlink.
I had to remove one of these two symlinks by hand (I can't remember
which one), and I've not had any trouble since. ("Since" meaning Saturday
evening.)
> The rest of the todo list worked fine. I'm just concerned about removing
> these files when they are owned by packages.
> Thoughts??
As above, DON'T remove the files, just the symlink.
> Dale
> :-) :-)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
