On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Justin Georgeson wrote: > Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but > that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do? > > What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I > could just up2date --force <package> for each package that rpm -V > <package> reports missing files for. But the up2date doesn't install do > it because I already have it installed. I'd use rpm --force for bad packages. Think I'd start with rpm itself, and then "rpm --rebuilddb" just in case. > > Justin Georgeson wrote: > > > So a few nights ago, power went out and my machine came down hard. I had > > to run fsck manually, and there is a lot of stuff in /lost+found. I'm > > finding many things aren't working right, indeed there are many exe's > > missing. How do I repair this? I thought the journaling in ext3 was > > supposed to help with stuff like this. Help, yes. Cure, no. > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
