On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:39 +0200, Danny Terweij wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > My /lib/ is empty. probaly someone (more admins) deleted the files by > > > accident. > > > As I'm sure you've guessed by the roaring silence, there is no "easy" > > way to do this. You really need to restore from backup. > > > You *do* have a backup, don't you? :-) > > No backup from the /lib/ :S > > >From another system i packaged the lib dir into a tar.gz, making sure that > the used kernel on the crashed box is the same on the box i used > (/lib/modules/) So it *could* be said you are restoring from backup, like I originally said - just a backup of an identical system. :-) > Boot rescue cd, start network, wget the created tar.gz to /mnt/sysimage/tmp > unpack > copy unpacked files to /mnt/sysimage/lib > and reboot. > > Testing it now on a vmware created box to see if it works. (i think it works > anyway this way). > > So nobody seems to think about this way? lol fun :) Ugh - if that's your idea of fun, you need therapy! :-) Good luck, and let us know if you fix it. TC
