On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:44:09PM +0200, 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.
It's quite weird. Maybe you had a disk/fs problem? Maybe you still do? Can you try 'fsck -f' your partition from somewhere else (your other partition or rescue floppy/cd)? Can you look at /lost+found on that partition and see if you have there something? Both before and after fsck? In any case, you can find out what package these files belong to in your other partition (with rpm -qf) and install it (maybe with -U, if it thinks you already have it). While I do not recommend to not backup your /usr, I do think it's not that important, and at home I don't. If you do have simple means for that, you can still backup. -- Didi ================================================================= 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]
