On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:43 +0200, Mark Mecum (teknowiztx) wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I am booting in runlevel 3 and am logging on without the respawning messages. > > After a little more fishing I have found that there are no files/directories installed in /usr or /var (and probably other places) which appears to be why so much (and probably the x11 serv) is broken. > > That leaves me with several outstanding key questions: > > 1] How did the installer leave me with such a screwed up mess? > The install failed in the middle. I was just the receipient of the same message and symptoms > 2] Should I report this as a bug on bugzilla? > No, not for a hardware problem. Mine was a power supply failing and I saw one other that had a failing UPS (again power). > 3] Are all of the startup messages that are sent to the screen recorded in a file for later viewing? (many of them go by too fast to catch) > > 4] Any ideas how to figure out which files the installer did not get in place and repair the installation? > Manually install each item, or do a new install. I was remote so I had to copy the rpm files from the distro CDs to the server at fault (ssh was running so I used scp). Then I had to manually identify each item that rpm said I needed to install yum and install them with rpm. After I got that far, I did a full update with yum and it did fix most but not all of the rpm database. Now I still have to identify what was installed but not written to the db, etc. I think I am going to redo the install since the hardware has been fixed so I can get out of this nightmare. > 5] I downloaded this distro through the duke site with bittorrent. Could it be an issue with that particular ISO. (Yes I did the validation before installing and it checked out, as well as the install process did not complain with any errors) > > Appreciate the assistance, > > mmecum > mmecum@xxxxxxxxx > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org > http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=56371&topic_id=14027&forum=1#forumpost56371 >
