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Re: woody became unusable - how to recover




At 11:21 a.m. 26/07/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa (mgriffa@technisys.com.ar) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>       I'm having a serious problem with my woody installation at home. The
> system freezed, and when I rebooted, fsck reported problems. I booted with
> rescue, fscked and now I have a very weird and unstable system:
> symptoms:
> I boots, ok, I login in X (kde2) but almost all programs cause segmentation
> faults, and programs may or may not work on an unknown (to me at least)
> pattern. ie: I su, dpkg --get-selections -> segmentation fault (yesterday)
> but today it was ok.
> There were some kernel messages on a free page (sorry don't have it here).
> Fortunatly, I have all data on separate partitions and also CDs.
> but I don't want to reinstall because: 1) it's winnie stuff, and 2)
> recovering configuration takes some time
> NOTE: apt-get, dpkg, and dselect are badly broken (almost). Maybe I should
> reinstall them... how?
>
> The question:
> Is there any way I could reinstall programs without reconfiguration?

From your system backups.  You have system backups, right?

not system but data and some cfg (X, specially)...
I'm thinking that I'll better reinstall...



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