[vox-tech] emergency: please help. /lib keeps disappearing

[Issac Trotts]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:08:39AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Wed 26 May 04,  8:48 AM, Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu> said:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:52:22AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Good.  Now I begin to recover packages.  I don't know how to get a list
> > > of all packages that install files in /lib, so I do the only thing I
> > > know how to do:
> > > 
> > >    COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l "*" | grep -v 'description'
> > >       | awk '{ print $2 }' > recover.sh
> > > 
> > > which gives me a list of all installed packages.  BTW, if anybody knows
> > > how to generate a list of all packages which have files in /lib, I'd
> > > like to know.
> > 
> > (for i in $(dpkg -l '*'|grep -v description|awk '{print $2}'); do  
> >     if dpkg -L $i | grep '^/lib/' > /dev/null ; then 
> >         echo $i 
> >     fi 
> > done) | less
> > 
> > [...]
> > > That's about the only thing I can think of to try (other than installing
> > > Gentoo which I've been thinking about for a few weeks now).
> > 
> > Is there a reason to think Gentoo would have fewer problems than Debian?
> 
> thx, by the way!   :-)

No prob!  :o)

> at some point during the history of this machine, a number of problems
> developed with X:
> 
[...]
> they didn't happen all at once.  it's been incremental, as X got
> updated and ran the course of a couple of years.

Well, that's no fun.  I've only used Debian for a couple of years,
but have installed it on maybe 8 boxes so far.  The slowdown hasn't
happened to me yet...

> when i use a live CD, like knoppix, these problems go away.  i believe
> these are compilation / packaging issues.  i'd like to see if compiling
> everything from scratch fixes them.  i just booted knoppix for the first
> time a few weeks ago, and the difference between X on my hard drive and
> X on knoppix was startling.

I wonder if there's a way to get a blend between knoppix and hard-drive
based installation.  It would be nice to be able to save files and
keep programs around that become available...

> i realize that you can certainly compile your own on debian, but from
> what i've read about gentoo, the whole concept appeals to me.

One thing that's been keeping me from using gentoo is that I'm worried
that installing packages will take way longer than with Debian.
Are there binary i686 or i386 versions of most of the packages?

Issac

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