On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I promised to let the list know how I solved the problem (in case it's ever of > some use to someone). After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules was an empty directory. I checked on my other > installation and found that it should contain hundreds of files. I have no > idea what happened to the files, but I copied them all from the other > installation and X now works. I only wish I had an idea why these files and > /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 disappeared. I wonder if anything else is missing :-(. > I wrote earlier that I have backups of everything, but that's not 100% true. > I always assumed that it wasn't necessary to back-up nearly 4 Mega of /usr > since I could always re-install any package from RPMs. But now, I'm not so > sure. I did try erasing and re-installing XFree86 and even went to the > extreme of updating from MDK91 to MDK92 and still ended up with missing > files. Very strange.
You can use rpm -qV with various options to check missing/altered/corrupted/... files. behdad ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
