[wplug] recovering /usr/bin?

[John Strange]

Don,

I nuked my gentoo install last night as well simply cause I was tired of
woking with it and wanted things in a more familiar environment.  I like
gentoo for one reason.. SPEED..  going back to redhat 9 my mouse drags
in X, windows don't move smoothly..  But hey, I have rpm, and guess
what, it locked already while doing an rpm -Uvh on samba..

)*(@#)$(*@)(*$@)(#)(*@)(#*$

I wish they would fix rpm, I can deal with speed issues but rpm locking
and munching up is pissing me off as much as emerge does.

BTW: qpk seems to have a lot more options than emerge.

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:28, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Wonderful.
> 
> On my Gentoo laptop I just had Nautilus segfault while moving files into
> /usr/bin/ - and now my system is fairly nuked.  Pretty much every useful
> command is gone (less, cat, find, (s)locate, emerge, prozilla, ftp, ssh,
> which, etc, etc, etc).  I do not have any backups, and even emerge is gone.
> It's taken me 2 months to get my laptop to this point of functionality - am
> I looking at a reload?  With RPM, I could simply run a "-Va" and it would
> tell me what files/packages have been nuked - does Gentoo offer me anything
> similar (keeping in mind that I don't even have emerge anymore)?
> 
> I have no idea how I'm going to move files back and forth to this box....
> (wait - yes, I can still ftp _to_ it)  Can someone contact me off list and
> volunteer to tar up at least a few of the binaries mentioned above and email
> them to me?
> 
> >From a precursory glance it appears that, at a minimum, I need to (re)emerge
> every package listed above.
> 
> 
> At this point, it's been a tough enough row to hoe (ho?) with Gentoo that if
> I'm looking at a reload I'm going to say F-it and switch back to Red Hat....
> I love /learning/ Linux, but I really like /using/ it much more....
> 
> Don
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