[Wylug-help] Mandrake has seriously screwed up just by doing media updates

[Anne Wilson]

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On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 15:07, you wrote:
>
> Hi Anne, thanks again.
>
> Well, earlier I changed my mirrors and did the urpmi update as suggested -
> but nothing in the way of lost apps/work returned.
>
> I opened a console, did su>root and tried changing the msec values from 4
> to 3, 3 to 2, but again nothing has changed - I still have lost my apps/all
> work and the shell prompt still remains as 'bash-2.05b$'
>
> This is so bizzare as I was not doing anything else at all, other than
> trying to install updates through the MCC when all this occured.
>
> Thanks again for you help, though I now feel that my system is probably
> beyond repair.
>
If it comes to a re-install you will have lost all your apps, but your work
should be under your home directory, so you should be able to recover it - at
least, if you have /home on a separate partition?  If you don't you need to
get a live CD - Knoppix or similar - to access your files and copy them off
to safety.  I've never tried doing that with anything that won't fit on a
floppy though.  If you have any spare disk space (or an old disk you could
put in for now) could you create a directory there a copy files into that?

So far no other suggestions have come up, but then a lot of people aren't
reading at this time of day.  Many are in USA or Canada, and tend to be
around in our evenings.  If you can hang on for a few more hours, or
preferably until morning, it might be worth it.

Anne
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