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Unix: February 2004 Archives
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Unborked.
It has been a heroic struggle, but the Linux box is back up. We now have a bleeding edge Fedora install - Kernel 2.4.24 (OK, so I've not got round to 2.6 yet), KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.4 all running on an Athlon 2500+ (which, incidentally, refuses to overclock, but that's a tale for another day).
It has been a heroic struggle, but the Linux box is back up. We now have a bleeding edge Fedora install - Kernel 2.4.24 (OK, so I've not got round to 2.6 yet), KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.4 all running on an Athlon 2500+ (which, incidentally, refuses to overclock, but that's a tale for another day).
Borked.
The details are hazy - I was very tired at the time - but I believe it involved taking a screenshot of my spanking new KDE 3.2 installation, with 'rm -rf /*' typed in at an xterm, you know, just for a laugh. Believe me when I say at no point did I hit Enter, but when I closed the terminal, the drives started churning. A moment of confusion was followed quickly by a moment of realisation, which in turn was followed by a moment of violent lunging for the Big Red Switch.
Fingers crossed, said switch was returned to its 'go' position. 'Go' it did not.
This isn't usually a problem but, unbeknown to me, the last backup DVD I burned turned out to be a coaster. The MD5s were fine just after it was burned, but lo, unrecoverable errors while untaring.
Of course that wasn't the end of it - I had the KDE 3.2 RPMs saved and after re-installing RedHat 9, I went about replacing KDE. Shouldn't have bothered. The dependencies list was longer than my arm. After close to 2 hours on rpmseek all was resolved. Until I installed Evolution.
Evolution proceeded to replace my kerberos libs with an earlier version, which was fine for Evolution, but not for any other app, to the point where I had to switch between the two kerberos versions just to read my e-mail.
Ah, well. I'm downloading Fedora Core 1 now. Over a 512k ADSL line. I'll be here for about 9 hours (Downloader for X got mangled up somewhere along the way, and won't compile any more, so I'm downloading 1.8 Gig of stuff with Mozilla Firebird. Hope this server supports resumes).
The details are hazy - I was very tired at the time - but I believe it involved taking a screenshot of my spanking new KDE 3.2 installation, with 'rm -rf /*' typed in at an xterm, you know, just for a laugh. Believe me when I say at no point did I hit Enter, but when I closed the terminal, the drives started churning. A moment of confusion was followed quickly by a moment of realisation, which in turn was followed by a moment of violent lunging for the Big Red Switch.
Fingers crossed, said switch was returned to its 'go' position. 'Go' it did not.
This isn't usually a problem but, unbeknown to me, the last backup DVD I burned turned out to be a coaster. The MD5s were fine just after it was burned, but lo, unrecoverable errors while untaring.
Of course that wasn't the end of it - I had the KDE 3.2 RPMs saved and after re-installing RedHat 9, I went about replacing KDE. Shouldn't have bothered. The dependencies list was longer than my arm. After close to 2 hours on rpmseek all was resolved. Until I installed Evolution.
Evolution proceeded to replace my kerberos libs with an earlier version, which was fine for Evolution, but not for any other app, to the point where I had to switch between the two kerberos versions just to read my e-mail.
Ah, well. I'm downloading Fedora Core 1 now. Over a 512k ADSL line. I'll be here for about 9 hours (Downloader for X got mangled up somewhere along the way, and won't compile any more, so I'm downloading 1.8 Gig of stuff with Mozilla Firebird. Hope this server supports resumes).
