Re: Repairing a corrupted system

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

martin f krafft writes:
>As long is it's not /var:

	I am pretty sure /var is okay.

>  dpkg --get-selections | sed -ne 's,install$,,p' | \
>    xargs apt-get install --reinstall --yes
>
>This will simply reinstall all packages that dpkg has installed in
>the past, which should put /lib back into place. Maybe
>
>  dpkg -S /lib | cut -d: -f1 | tr , \\n | \
>    xargs apt-get install --reinstall --yes
>
>is enough as it only reinstalls the packages which put files into
>/lib.

Many thanks.  I will try all that and see if the last bit of
disfunctionality goes away.