On Sat,06.Jun.09, 08:09:56, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > --- On Sat, 6/6/09, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seems to me like you tried to restore more than just /etc > > I did. :) I reinstalled the full system: personal data and customized > settings from my backup, and the installed packages from the Debian > archives, automatically from a backed-up list file generated by > aptitude search '~i!~M'. ... > dynamically generated during install - I have no other idea for how > the lock directories ended up with the wrong owner. That's not what I meant. Lock directories are not located in /etc but in /var AFAIK, so restoring /etc from backup should be doable. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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