On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 09:41, JoeHill wrote: > Seems I've gone and made my system think I no longer have perl > installed, which means I can't use urpmi, run drakconf, pretty much > everything is hosed. I had a hard X lockup and tried the ctrl-alt-sysreq > sequence, ended up rebooting anyway. > > as you can see my sig is gone... > > anyway, when it started to boot up, I did a file system integrity check, > it asked if I wanted to repair the errors it found, I said yes, and MDK > booted, I did not notice any other errors. > > I'm thinkin a symlink got deleted maybe? anyway, before I go and do > something drastic, is there a way someone know that I can recover from > this? I would love to just reinstall perl, but I can't install or > uninstall anything at the moment... > > cheers all... :(
Check all your system paths (in /etc/profile) and your lib paths (in /etc/ld.so.conf) - rerun ldconfig just in case - locate your perl directory and double check that all is well and good there for reassurance. Look for any aberrations anywhere. Could be something SIMPLE, could be something worse... -- Tue Jun 3 09:50:01 EST 2003 09:50:01 up 3 days, 18:59, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.11, 0.10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * There's no future in time travel.
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