Re: I broke apache and hacked a fix, but what happened and how do I fix it properly?
Is it possible that somehow a symlink got deleted as part of some deb
being (un)installed? In the meantime, if it ain't broke ...?
definitely possible. Try:
apt-cache depends apache
apt-get -f install --reinstall apache (and others)
which should replace your depends- libraries.
somethign like:
apt-cache depends apache | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk '{print $2}'
| apt-get install --reinstall -
might do it.
:>
-g
The above command didn't do too well:
debian:~# apt-cache depends apache | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk
'{print $2}' | apt-get -f install --reinstall -
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
debian:~#
I tried it with xargs, but that fared little better (longer output
below). Finally settled on:
for f in $(apt-cache depends apache | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk
'{print $2}'); do apt-get -f install --reinstall ${f}; done
which worked, though it tediously prompted me to insert the CD for each
package.
Anyway the upshot was:
debian:~# ls -l /lib/libdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233488 Apr 18 2002 /lib/libdb.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 14 21:00 /lib/libdb2.so.2
-> libdb2.so.2.7.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262812 Apr 18 2002 /lib/libdb2.so.2.7.7
debian:~# apache
apache: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
so it's back to:
debian:/lib# ln -s libdb.so.3 libdb.so.2
debian:/lib# apache
[Fri Feb 14 21:10:34 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine the
server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
I think I'll leave it for now :-). Thanks for everyone's help.
FYI: Here's the xargs output in full:
debian:~# apt-cache depends apache | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk
'{print $2}' | xargs -n1 apt-get -f install --reinstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, re-installation of libc6 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/264kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/50.2kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/68.4kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/813kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/813kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1150kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/26.6kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1073kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.
debian:~#
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