Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >After you get your filesystem in order, and doubly verify that you hw isn't >going south, just repair the packages that are broken, using Richard >Fish's technique. > > Thanks - but I am frustrated now. Did --check, then --fix-fixable, and ultimately a --rebuild-

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 15 April 2006 14:57, Rohit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup': >1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for / > and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD]

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Richard Fish wrote: >cd /var/db/pkg >for x in */* ; do equery check $x ; done > >-Richard > > Thank you so much, Richard - but to me it seems like just another filesystem error. Reason ? I had emerged -C my mc after being scared of commands firing up ln, encountering mc and screwing up the symli

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since > most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before. A > conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my > system - I wou

Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Dear all, Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before. A conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my system - I would assume. God knows what may have already broken down there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-14 Thread Rohit Sharma
Bo Andresen wrote: Rohit replies -- Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just in case. Done. The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens. - PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That is all. "/usr/bin" comes before "/

Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-13 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 14 April 2006 02:06, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Hi there, > > Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system > seem to launch mc. > if I delete one, the other disappears as well. > if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. > Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln ret

Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:06:57AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit Sharma squawked: > Hi there, > > Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system > seem to launch mc. > if I delete one, the other disappears as well. > if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. > Even if /usr/bi

[gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-13 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi there, Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system seem to launch mc. if I delete one, the other disappears as well. if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln What is happening. I am completely baffled. --