Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
This one time I accidentally removed my /etc (never login as root to solve a problem when you're half the way onto Morpheus' land) and I created the package listing with pacman and reinstalled everything. Had to reconfigure things back, but it was all fine by the end.

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Rashif
2010/1/18 Xavier Chantry : > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, >> so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the >> packages themselves. >> >> And if you're thinking of reinstalling a l

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/17/10, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, >> so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the >> packages themselves. >> >> And if you're thinking of reinstal

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, > so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the > packages themselves. > > And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3 > <(pacman -Q

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Rashif
2010/1/18 Alberto Bonacina : > 2010/1/17 Javier Vasquez : >> I don't want to do a install from scratch, just want to re-install >> everything, but not touching the configuration files.  Still I want to >> re-install all packages already installed in the system. >> Is there a way to do such re-insta

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Alberto Bonacina
2010/1/17 Javier Vasquez : > I don't want to do a install from scratch, just want to re-install > everything, but not touching the configuration files.  Still I want to > re-install all packages already installed in the system. > Is there a way to do such re-install through pacman?  If so, please l

[arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Some time back, while xscreensver was running the system got locked, so that I couldn't log back neither under X, neither under the console. The only solution at hand was to do a hard reset. After such hard reset, the partition for /tmp got corrupted and it had to be repaired. However ever