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Re: Emergancy...system configuration keeps deleting my user accounts in dselect



On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:13:26AM -0400, Adam wrote:
> I am finding out that my system configuration keeps deleting my user
> accounts when I do an install from dselect.  Could I  have installed a
> package which does this.  The only active account I  have no that system
> is root and my normal useser can't access the system.  Theres and my
> accounts or directories in /home dir. has <user name>.deselected.  
> 
> I cant find the package I  may have installed which does this. This
> happened after I have installed a whole mess of packages and now every
> time I do an install it takes for ever to finish and it says that it is
> deleting <user>.

Hmmm. How about

grep -r 'deleting' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*

(Assuming 'deleting' is really a literal part of the message you see.)

-- 
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*


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