On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900 Ethan Benson <Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:05:19PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it > > was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck > > managed to fix everything except for /var which was pretty well hosed. So I > > had to dpkg -X the older version of reiserutils and install it manually. > > Then a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on var fixed the problem, but as expected > > nuked _everything_ on the partition. So is there anything easier than > > manually creating/touching files as needed for syslogd, dpkg, gdm, etc. > > etc.? > > if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed. > reinstall your system from scratch. > Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just doing some simple scans of the hard disc and reiserfs found some bugs. It then completely wiped /var. /var/lib/dpkg was screwed (along with everything else in /var) so I was reduced to reinstalling. Seeing as I track woody, and have potato disks and a 56k modem connection, it has taken some time to get back to normal. Sorry - no choice but to reinstall from scratch. -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing
