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

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