Re: /var/lib gone
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents
> > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am
> > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the
> > only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can
> > somebody tell me the normal subtrees of /var/lib and i might be
> > able to fix it manually?
I think it sounds like reinstall time.
> try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once
> more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro.
Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work.
Probably.
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Alisdair McDiarmid alisdair@jml.net
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