had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously, ubuntu is not debian, but their /var structure should be similar enough that I can fix the problems after the fact.
2 major problems remain: using postfix, this has been working for years, ran postfix check to recreate the missing directories, and my machine (m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com) is getting the mail fine. I just can't *send* mail. Postfix tells me that there is an unknown transport for the mail I try to send, and holds it in the queue. The other issue - I no longer have a working repository for dpkg describing what files are installed. Is there a way to recreate it without a reinstall? I noticed that aptitude upgrade was fetching down a number of things, but as I don't know what it's upgrading *from* I don't know if I can trust it. Another thing - aptitude update was going very slowly and experiencing connection time outs periodically during the execution, so I don't think I can trust it. On the other hand, dpkg --get-selections gives me a number of things, but honestly I think those where what Ubuntu put there? Obviously, that is not what I want. I'm hoping to not have to reinstall this thing :). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
