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.