I recently dealt with a system that suffered catastophic filesystem damage as a result of the improper use of hdparm. After the fsck, several critical packages were missing key components (including initscripts and glibc). What I ultimately had to do was boot a rescue disk and reinstall the damaged packages. If we could have a "Repair" installation class, it would greatly simplify such difficulties. This would not, by nature, be a quick thing. In theory what it would do is check the existing package database and verify that the files owned by each package actually exist and reinstall packages with missing components. Even if it only did this for the packages required by basesystem, it would get users back into operating condition with fewer headaches on their part. -- Anton Graham GPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." -- Robert Orben
