[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[Darragh]

I've re-created the users which was no problem,

I think I'm going to be fourced to try to make as many notes about what I
did yesterday, reinstall and hope that I can get the access-bridge working
again.

Darragh
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allen" <john.allen at dublinux.net>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Commands have stopped working


> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:47, Darragh wrote:
> > > it depends, if darragh wants to spend the next hour or so banging his
> > > head against a brick wall and then reinstall or spend the next hour or
so
> > > reinstalling and configuring everything and then watching the
simspons,
> > > it's his call i suppose.
> >
> > Well, considdering that java-access-bridge is a really really horrible
> > beast to get running with gnome and gnopernicus reinstalling is really
my
> > last option, It took me from 2 o clock yesterday to half ten last night
> > getting it all working.  I don't want to go threw that again.
> >
>
> I guess it is just that your /etc/passwd, and /etc/group we shagged over
the
> the setup rpm's pos install script. It may however have saved the
originals
> as .rpmsave, or .rpmorig files; so check that.
>
> Other than that just re-add the correct users (make sure they have the
correct
> uid/gid)
>
> > Ok, is it possible to find the packages that are broken and just
reinstall
> > them?
> >
> > I used ls -lat to go threw the files, there's a lode of files which were
> > updated today and even more that were updated yesterday.
> >
> > Darragh
>
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