Alan Coopersmith gave some interesting info just now: some (not all)
files appeared in /var/pkg/lost+found/.
The missing man files weren't there, but most (80 %?) of the missing
/usr/local tree was.
I had no idea that dir was there. There you go, manuals should be read.
i e rtfm not waefrtfm.
On 2012-05-07 16:33, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 15:31:19 +0200 From: "Hans J.
Albertsson" <[email protected]> To:
[email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]
Massive numbers of man files, missing on 151a4 Message-ID:
<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed No, that's not it: I thought of that
possibility, but my /usr/local is just another directory /usr. And
where did the man files go?? I'm actually thinking I would have liked
to be able to trace what updatemanager did, after the fact. Still, I
now know I must do a snapshot at every step of any fishy pkg stuff.
And I've got the files back, and things work. Next time I'll be more
observant. On 2012-05-07 14:50,
[email protected] wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:21:32 -0400
> From: James Carlson<[email protected]>
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files,
> missing on 151a4
> Message-ID:<[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> > I managed to determine (ocular inspection of "ls" in several
snapshots)
>> > that the only files missing were about 1200 man pages in man1, and the
>> > entire /usr/local tree.
>> >
>> > And I think it must have happened as I removed the sfe version of
>> > imagemagick.
> One way I've seen this sort of thing happen is when an administrator
> uses a symlink for a common directory (such as /usr/local), and a
> package delivers a directory entry for that same path. The packaging
> system will happily blow the symlink away.
>
> If that's what you've been doing, I suggest using mounts instead of
> symlinks. The simplest thing to do is to make /usr/local (or whatever
> is being symlink'd) be a separate zfs file system. Alternatively, if
> separate file systems are not your taste for some reason, consider using
> a lofs mount. (Of course, getting that mount in place at boot time may
> be slightly tougher to do on a modern Open Indiana system, as zfs works
> outside of the /etc/vfstab scheme.)
>
> -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W<[email protected]>
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