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fobius
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 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: /etc is missing files |
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Hi,
I was trying to remove /var/tmp/portage/....openoffice because I had run out of space trying to build OO2.0 on there but accidentally added /etc to that line as well. I stopped it before the command could finish execution, but there are some files missing from /etc now and the result is that my system has been crippled. Directories such as /etc/pam.d are missing and I tried to rescue it to the best of my ability, and got emerge to start up but it fails complaining about file "arch.list not being able to be found, missing portage tree" when arch.list is in /usr/portage/profiles. How would I get Portage to recognize this?
Also, I am assuming that if I can emerge --sync and rebuild world, then all configuration files will be replaced in /etc. Does anyone see a problem with this?
In the worst case, I might have to reinstall. Is it ok to use my existing partitions during the reinstall?
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: /etc is missing files |
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| fobius wrote: | Hi,
I was trying to remove /var/tmp/portage/....openoffice because I had run out of space trying to build OO2.0 on there but accidentally added /etc to that line as well. I stopped it before the command could finish execution, but there are some files missing from /etc now and the result is that my system has been crippled. Directories such as /etc/pam.d are missing and I tried to rescue it to the best of my ability, and got emerge to start up but it fails complaining about file "arch.list not being able to be found, missing portage tree" when arch.list is in /usr/portage/profiles. How would I get Portage to recognize this?
Also, I am assuming that if I can emerge --sync and rebuild world, then all configuration files will be replaced in /etc. Does anyone see a problem with this?
In the worst case, I might have to reinstall. Is it ok to use my existing partitions during the reinstall?
Thanks |
Your make.profile link might have been erased. That is why portage cant reach that file. You need to recreate it. It will be something like "ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/<insert your profile here> /etc/make.profile". Then you can just "emerge -e world". |
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nectarboi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hello.
Sounds like the link of: "/etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/" was deleted. A emerge sync will fix that, but since you can't sync try downloading a portage snapshot. For other files you should be able to find them in the stage3 install file. The world file is "/var/lib/portage/world" so that should still be there. |
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fobius
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the suggestions, but I did check the make.profile link but emerge --sync still fails because portage can't find arch.list. Could it be that I'm missing some system configuration files as well?
this is what my /etc looks like:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4073 Aug 16 22:11 DIR_COLORS
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:59 acpi/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 Jan 7 10:50 blkid.tab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 Jan 7 10:22 blkid.tab.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 13:44 bonobo-activation/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 12:02 cron.daily/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 2005 cron.monthly/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 21:27 cron.weekly/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1776 Jan 1 12:09 csh.env
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 27 00:11 cups/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 18:02 default/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 28 10:51 env.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1669 Nov 12 08:28 etc-update.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1490 Dec 25 22:53 fam.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1246 Dec 26 21:59 fdprm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400 Aug 24 16:31 filesystems
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 10:44 fonts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 Aug 31 12:44 fstab
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 7 09:38 gconf/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10793 Aug 17 13:37 gnome-vfs-mime-magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 theo users 741 Jan 7 11:13 group
-r-------- 1 root root 618 Dec 1 23:19 gshadow
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 25 13:09 gtk/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 1 17:40 gtk-2.0/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1302 Oct 6 21:23 host.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 12 23:31 init.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Aug 24 16:31 issue
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51608 Jan 7 10:19 ld.so.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Jan 7 10:06 ld.so.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 602 Aug 16 21:08 locales.build
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 1 22:58 mail/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Dec 1 22:58 mailcap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1130 Jan 7 11:15 make.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16174 Dec 26 21:54 make.conf.example
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug 16 12:09 make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4575 Aug 16 21:27 man.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20310 Nov 30 22:34 mime.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5957 Jan 3 23:35 modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5957 Jan 3 23:35 modprobe.conf.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 18:24 modules.autoload.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4293 Jan 3 23:35 modules.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4293 Jan 3 23:35 modules.conf.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 22:42 modules.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3688 Nov 8 19:45 mplayer.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 372 Jan 7 11:22 mtab
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 13 00:12 mysql/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 503 Oct 6 21:23 nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206 Aug 28 16:43 ntp.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 Nov 7 21:04 opera6rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Nov 7 21:04 opera6rc.fixed
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 2005 opt/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1903 Dec 1 23:19 passwd
-rw------- 1 root root 1829 Aug 28 12:47 passwd-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 680 Dec 28 13:22 pear.conf
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 3 01:43 php/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 11:44 portage/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2053 Aug 24 16:31 profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 20:54 profile.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778 Jan 1 12:09 profile.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1636 Aug 28 15:04 rc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87 Jan 6 18:54 resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Jan 2 20:28 resolv.conf-eth0.sv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 16 21:18 rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 10 2005 runlevels/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 28 18:10 scim/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1719 Oct 19 17:59 scsi_id.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29366 Aug 24 16:31 services
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 15:59 sgml/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 20:54 skel/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 18:15 ssh/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 16 21:50 ssl/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 16:02 svgalib/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 31 11:58 udev/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 16:02 vga/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 12 00:26 vhosts/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 21:43 vim/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 19:18 wget/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 17:29 xdg/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 8 23:53 xinetd.d/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 16:06 xml/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 Dec 26 22:21 xpdfrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Aug 28 16:43 yp.conf
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I had some stuff in /etc/portage but that seemed to be wiped out. I'm not sure what else I might be missing since I had to manually recreate /etc/group and /etc/ld.so.conf since those were wiped out too. Any other ideas? |
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fobius
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| I'm thinking a reinstall should be the way to go...can I use my existing partitions during the reinstall? |
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