"David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com> writes: > Before doing this, I wish to recount a large development. I tried > this morning to do _anything_ in what I thought to be the ash > cli. This is why I think it is bash: I tried dpkg --configure -a and > it said _bash_ couldn't find some folder or other since it wasn't in > $PATH. I put the folder in to $PATH and aha! dpkg had error. This > must stem from the problem. If you recall (I had better have > mentioned this. If not, I'm a real dolt), this all started when I > was trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my system, as usuall, but right > after I fixed the recent xfs bug. As I was doing this, my system > froze utterly and I had to do a hard reboot. [...] > So, there you have it. Now what? So some part of the filesystem is knackered, and we can't know the extent of the damage for sure. Since it happened suring a dist-upgrade, it's most likely some part of the packages upgraded at that time. I would suggest something like: # for pkg in $(dpkg --get-selections | sed -e 's/^\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]]*.*$/\1/'); do sudo apt-get --reinstall install $pkg; done You can probably speed this up with xargs if you like. This will reinstall every package on the system, so if any files are corrupt, they will get replaced with a good copy. If you have the option, a clean reinstall might be better, then you known you won't run into additional problems if any files not replaced by the above turn out to be corrupted as well. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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