On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:15:58PM -0800, Carl Boettiger wrote: > doing dpkg --extract perl-base and copying all the files in its > usr/share/perl/5.8 directory to my /usr/share/perl/5.8 directory fixed my > install problems. All the .pm files in that directory had become completely > corrupted. > > Any idea how I could figure out what corrupted these files in the first > place?
Like Jeff originally suggested, it sounds suspiciously like failing hardware. Did you look inside the Perl modules? Were they completely trashed? I would A) make sure my backups are good and current and B) install something like smartmontools to monitor the state of that device. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
