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 Saturday 28 Dec 2002 9:43 am, Neil Stone wrote:
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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 ?
|
| I'm not sure, how do I find this out?
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What distro do you have ? RedHat creates a recovery disc, I believe suse
has a recovery system. Boot from the initial install CD to find out !


Neil Stone

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