[wplug] recovering /usr/bin?

[John Strange]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 11:15, Robert E. Coutch wrote:

Well,

It's there, I've been using redhat for years, and since 8.0 I've had a
lot of issues with rpm hanging, and I'm not the only one.  I'm not
talking about my personal desktop experience, I've also seen it on the
numerous machines I have running at work with the same problem.

Don passed a link I need to check out that talks about the problem, it
really bites when it hangs cause you never know what state the rpm
install was in when it hangs.

> I've NEVER had an RPM lockup problem and I've been
> using it for years on Mandrake, Red Hat and now SuSE.
> Does this happen to you often?  Just on Gentoo?
> 
> Is this the place where some Debian user is supposed to insert a comment 
> about how apt-get is better?
> 
> 
> Good Luck with this one,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> John Strange wrote:
> 
> >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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