Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 14 May 2005 17:22:15 -0700, Grant wrote:

  Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data.

/var contains important information about your installed packages for
portage.

  I
  would reboot  see if everything works.  If it does, your fine.  If
  only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs.  If it fails to
  boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo.
 
 Alright thanks guys.  I'm booted back up and running a browser so
 that's good.  I really shouldn't be working as root.

Try emerge world --newuse -upvDt to see if portage is broken.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Grant]

   Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data.
 
 /var contains important information about your installed packages for
 portage.
 
   I
   would reboot  see if everything works.  If it does, your fine.  If
   only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs.  If it fails to
   boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo.
 
  Alright thanks guys.  I'm booted back up and running a browser so
  that's good.  I really shouldn't be working as root.
 
 Try emerge world --newuse -upvDt to see if portage is broken.
 
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 Neil Bothwick

Good catch.  I get this last:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d'

What do you think I should do?

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Edward Catmur]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 06:46 -0700, Grant wrote:
 Good catch.  I get this last:
 
 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
 '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d'
 
 What do you think I should do?

rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep should do it; portage will then regenerate the
cache.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Grant]

  Good catch.  I get this last:
 
  IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
  '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sys-devel/.update.25322.bison-1.875d'
 
  What do you think I should do?
 
 rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep should do it; portage will then regenerate the
 cache.

It looks like that fixed it.  Thanks!

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Bruno Lustosa]

On 5/14/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello, I meant to execute 'rm -rf var' but I hit 'rm -rf /var'
 instead.  I realized my mistake after about 6 or 7 seconds when it was
 taking too long and I hit Ctrl+C.  Everything looks OK, but something
 must be gone.  What would you guys do in this situation?

Restore from a backup? :-)
As you are posting here, I guess that's not an option.
You are probably missing the big directories /var/db and /var/tmp.
/var/db is (at least it seems) where information about each emerged
package lies. I'm not sure which trouble you will pass without those.
Perhaps someone may enlighten you more than I.
/var/tmp is where portage compiles packages, and can be safely
deleted. I don't know about the directory structure though. Perhaps
reemerging some packages like baselayout would reconstruct them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Taylor Morrow]

Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data.  I
would reboot  see if everything works.  If it does, your fine.  If
only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs.  If it fails to
boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'

[Grant]

 Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data.  I
 would reboot  see if everything works.  If it does, your fine.  If
 only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs.  If it fails to
 boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo.

Alright thanks guys.  I'm booted back up and running a browser so
that's good.  I really shouldn't be working as root.

- Grant

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