On 8 Feb 2009, at 6:41 pm, Reuti wrote:
Am 04.02.2009 um 20:00 schrieb Francesco Pietra:
How to purge remove cleanly a damaged X server from a working station
running on debian lenny amd64?
Failure of one (or two) slot(s) of kingston 400 DDR1 ECC on the
multisocket workstation prevents running startx, presumably by
corrupting files related to X. My work around did not resolve the
issue. Therefore, I would like to remove completely the X server
without leaving broken packages (using aptitude?). This would be the
first step to reinstall X. I rarely use X, except to check the
molecular structure for certain input files to molecular mechanics
software. In this case X is important, not to go on blindly.
I have been advised to carry out a fresh install of linux.
I second this. Fixing all the broken files might take more time, as
you can't be sure what was really affected.
I would
like to avoid that because of so many compilations to carry out.
Having a working backup would make this an issue of a few minutes.
You don't have any?
Quite.
In our case, all locally built software is in a separate tree, so
reinstalling a machine is almost never a problem; the locally built
software is either out on a backed-up NFS server, or its in a specific
directory separate from the OS distribution, which can easily be
backed up and restored. The configuration information is [almost] all
handled by cfengine, so in most cases nothing needs to be backed up on
the compute nodes at all, and rebuilding them is just a matter of PXE
booting them, hands-off.
Tim
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