On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:23:54AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote:
[PLEASE CC: ME IN YOUR REPLY - THANK YOU]
I just upgraded from 4.6.2 to 4.7 after accidentally, yes, as root, wiping
out my /usr/local/bin/ folder with an rm -rf (I thought I was in
/somemounteddrive/usr/local/bin/ and was removing unneeded stuff)!
I also noticed that upgrading from 4.6.2 to 4.7 changes your /etc/rc.conf
(as happened when I went from 4.5 to 4.6.2) so that if moused is using
/dev/ums0 (USB), these lines (the =YES ones) will be gone from rc.conf!
I also removed /usr/local/lib/ by accident and now startx and lots of
different pkg_add -rf package commands are giving me errors about
expecting different libraries. Is there a way to manually install these?
Please help, you're my only hope! =) Yours, faithfully as root right now,
I assume from the desperate nature of this plea that you don't have
good backups of all the stuff you accidentally deleted.
0 backups, always logging in as root... I break ALL the rules :)
Hmmm... Do you have portupgrade installed? Does it still work?
I really never use cvs, cvsup, the ports tree (takes up too much space, and
is a top-down approach, or bottom-up, I donno) or portupgrade.
If not, try re-installing it from packages from one of the ftp sites.
You'll also need the packages it depends on:
% pkg_info -r portupgrade\*
Information for portupgrade-20021216:
Innteresting command (makes a mental note). I use pkg_add -r a lot
(and -rf) and this is good to know. When pkg_add tells the user something
is already installed, did it find the binary in /usr/local/bin/ or a
directory in /var/db/pkg/*dir-here*/ ? What's its evidence?
Depends on:
Dependency: ruby-1.6.8
Dependency: ruby-shim-ruby18-1.8.0.p1
Dependency: ruby-bdb1-0.1.8
Then make sure your ports tree is up to date, and you've rebuilt the
indexes and fixed up the package dependencies:
# portsdb -Uu
# pkgdb -Fv
and then use portupgrade to force a reinstall of all previously
installed packages:
# portinstall -rRiaf
This should work through all installed packages in dependency order,
prompting you each time if you want to de-install and then re-install
the package. If you'ld prefer to install pre-compiled packages rather
than compile from ports, add 'P' to that list of flags.
Cheers,
Matthew
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
Thank you for your help, but I'm attending a meeting (www.sdbug.org)
tonight and someone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is going to tutor me at my PC later
on so we shall see... Wish me luck!!! :) I LOVE FREEBSD. arr, make me
LOVE IT MORE! =)
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Peter Leftwich
President Founder, Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
http://Www.Video2Video.Com
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