Re: [LUG] I think I've broken my Linux and please excuse my stupidity.

[jon davey <jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 9:43 am, Neil Stone wrote:
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> jon davey wrote:
> | On Friday 27 Dec 2002 5:50 pm, Neil Stone wrote:
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> |>jon davey wrote:
> |>| Hi everyone, as the subject line says I think there's something wrong
> |>with my
> |>| system.  Before I discovered the propper comand for setting my clock I
> |>| mistakenly attempted to install a gcc library from a tarball having
> |>| misunderstood instructions from a web site.  I think I may have been
> |>folowing
> |>| the "server" instructions for the instillation of NTP instead of "user".
> |>| Conciquently commands like #find and #locate arent working and there is
> |>| apparently nothing in # /mnt/cdrom when there *is* in fact a cd in
> there.
> |>|         Does anyone know what I may have done?
> |>| Thanks in advance for the descemination of any knoweledge.
> |>| J-D
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> |>ok, what happens when you type the following;
> |>
> |>cd /usr/bin
> |>ls
> |
> | I get (prepair for BIG list)-
> |  gtalk*
> | gtbl@
> ...
> | zless*
> | zmore*
> | znew*
> | [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$
> |
> |>do you get a load of files ?
> |>
> |>if so what happens in;
> |>
> |>ls -lagh /usr/bin/locate
> |
> | [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$ ls -lagh /usr/bin/locate
> | ls: /usr/bin/locate: No such file or directory
> | [jondavey@xxxxxxxxx bin]$
> |
> |>(copy/paste please)
> |>
> |>Should give us a few more pointers !!
> |>
>
> Well it looks screwed, Is there a recovery function on the install CD ?
I'm not sure, how do I find this out?

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