Re: [LUG] I think I've broken my Linux and please excuse my stupidity.

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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jon davey wrote:
| On Friday 27 Dec 2002 5:50 pm, Neil Stone wrote:
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|>jon davey wrote:
|>| Hi everyone, as the subject line says I think there's something wrong
|>with my
|>| system.  Before I discovered the propper comand for setting my clock I
|>| mistakenly attempted to install a gcc library from a tarball having
|>| misunderstood instructions from a web site.  I think I may have been
|>folowing
|>| the "server" instructions for the instillation of NTP instead of "user".
|>| Conciquently commands like #find and #locate arent working and there is
|>| apparently nothing in # /mnt/cdrom when there *is* in fact a cd in
there.
|>|         Does anyone know what I may have done?
|>| Thanks in advance for the descemination of any knoweledge.
|>| J-D
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|>ok, what happens when you type the following;
|>
|>cd /usr/bin
|>ls
|
| I get (prepair for BIG list)-
|  gtalk*
| gtbl@
...
| zless*
| zmore*
| znew*
| [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$
|
|>do you get a load of files ?
|>
|>if so what happens in;
|>
|>ls -lagh /usr/bin/locate
|
| [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$ ls -lagh /usr/bin/locate
| ls: /usr/bin/locate: No such file or directory
| [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$
|
|>(copy/paste please)
|>
|>Should give us a few more pointers !!
|>

Well it looks screwed, Is there a recovery function on the install CD ?
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