Repair - Reinstall - Restore

[Geert Janssens]

Assuming there are indeed some holes in your disk, you could try the 
following scenario:

rpm -Va --nogroup --nouser --nomtime --nomode

to check which installed packages are changed since installation. It's 
still up to you to decide which files are effectively damaged from this 
list and which ones were deliberatly changed.

For those files which you consider damaged, a

rpm -q --whatprovides <file>

will give you the package name(s) that should be reinstalled

rpm -e --nodeps <package name>
yum install <package name>

to reinstall a clean version of the package.

For some packages you will have to do some configuration afterwards.


I am aware that this is a procedure with a lot of manual work, but if 
reinstalling is not an option, it could be of help.


Good luck,

Geert

Olaf Olson wrote:
> I had a power drop here. Unfortunately, as some others have pointed out, 
> the UPS doesn't always have enough juice to make it through a shutdown, 
> especially since shutdown's not automatic. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS 
> THREAD, with suggestions about how to make auto shutdown work.  I will 
> ask the question later, about auto shutdown while on a UPS, I need to 
> ask the bigger question:
> 
> How do I recover? I have several holes in the recovered disk, 
> specifically, XFree86 is hosed, so no X. I can, of course, boot from the 
> CD and completely reinstall, but that appears to include repartitioning, 
> which will destroy everything. I don't want stuff destroyed. Also, it 
> appears that samba isn't working, wither, so I can't go to other 
> machines in my network and pull my data off so I can then reinstall the 
> whole thing.
> 
> I thought I once saw a posting here about booting to a recovery CD, but 
> I can't find that in the archives. Also, the only disk of the 6 I got 
> with YDL 3.0.1 is the installation CD and it wants to go directly to 
> installation.
> 
> I can boot to console only - no X, so I can run yum and the like, but 
> there isn't any command like "yum 
> reinstallEverythingThatIsMissingFromTheOriginalInstall" so I am really 
> not certain how to go about fixing it all.
> 
> Of course, backup procedures seem to be a good preventative measure. I 
> will work on that for the future and will probably post a few questions 
> along that line, too. PLEASE don't reply to this post with backup 
> solutions. Start a new thread if you plan on giving advice about that, 
> as it makes the searches go a bit easier, when looking for things in the 
> archive.
> 
> I have a G3 B&W, with 256Mb RAM, a 20 Gb drive and the stock video.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> Olaf
> 
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