RE:Help: Nuked /var
> <quote who="Tim Wood">
> > Hi,
> > I won't bore everybody with the gory details:)
> >
>
> > Naturally /var/lib/dpkg has the wrong archive data, but it is pretty
> > close.
> >
> > I am very reluctant to seek cds to completely reload the OS.
> >
> > What do you all think will be the future problems?
>
> random failures, lotta stuff like cron entries and mail stuff
> is in that filesystem. if dpkg still works you may be able
> to recover some of it by finding out what packages had what
> files in /var, on my laptop i did this:
> dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | xargs dpkg -L | grep '/var'
>
> which showed me the files packages placed in /var then you
> could use packages.debian.org to track down what files go
> to what package and reinstall it.
>
> if you still have /var/lib/locate, a way to possibly determine
> more recent files would be:
>
> locate '/var/'
>
> unless the system isn't important and you don't care about
> it i would reinstall.
>
> nate
>
I do not have any /var/lib, other than the copy from my desktop.
Dpkg does work, giving me the details of packages installed on the
desktop.
It's a dual boot system with win2k - that now refuses to boot, since I
scheduled a chkdsk. Running chkdsk was the original source of the entire
saga.
I do take your point about a reinstall but I only have a 31.2k link and
there is a lot of stuff which I doubt is available on CD. I'm off to
Melbourne, for 2 weeks, tomorrow(I live in Perth), and will get the 8CD
set for the July Woody - not sure at what point I will try a reinstall.
It will be later, rather than sooner, as the Linux system is functioning
fine, now?!
Tim
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> Subject: Re: (Debian) Opera browser
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:02:09 -0500
> From: Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:08:58 +1200, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Anybody have useful experience of Opera for Debian?
> >
> >www.opera.com
> >
> I have Opera5 on Win and Opera6 on linux. Though my preferred browser
> is Mozilla, I do like Opera's perceived quickness. I have had no
> problems. I haven't used it for ssl or Java, so don't know about that.
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> it's what you do know that ain't so.--unk
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> Subject: Re: Curses resize problem
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:56:40 -0400
> From: Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:31:43AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> > Try as I might, I cannot get the "resizeterm" function
> > to actually resize an xterm window in Debian.
> >
> > I'm using the libncurses5 library.
> >
> > I don't get any error return, the window just doesn't
> > resize.
> >
> > Any clue to what I might be doing wrong?
>
> According to what I have read, resizeterm does not resize an xterm.
> resizeterm changes the ncurses terminal size and windows (inside the
> xterm) to fit the stated dimentions. It seems to be meant to make
> writing SIGWINCH handlers easier.
>
> Take a look at /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/html/ncurses-intro.html
>
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> Subject: Re: (Debian) Opera browser
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 17:51:01 +0200
> From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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