On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:54:10 +0000, Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >The first thing to ask is how we got into this situation -- how did >you install this machine? Is it an upgrade from a previous release? > >Tim. >*/ At some point, this was all working. I don't know what happened, but I assume that I wound up erasing or uninstalling something relevant. I noticed it yesterday as errors scrolled by when rebooting. I did accidentally delete all files in /var a couple of weeks ago, and /var/lib/alternatives is empty. Relevant? (I now make better backups.) /etc/alternatives/* seem to point to real live things: [sdstern@ciscy etc]$ ll alternatives total 0 [snip] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 14 10:21 print -> /usr/bin/lpr.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 14 10:21 print-cancel -> /usr/bin/cancel.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 14 10:21 print-cancelman -> /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 14 10:21 print-lp -> /usr/bin/lp.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpc -> /usr/sbin/lpc.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpcman -> /usr/share/man/man8/lpc-cups.8.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lp-cups.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpq -> /usr/bin/lpq.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpqman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 14 10:21 print-lprm -> /usr/bin/lprm.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 14 10:21 print-lprman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 14 10:21 print-lprmman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpstat -> /usr/bin/lpstat.cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 14 10:21 print-lpstatman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz -- Steve
