lvu installed problem

[Richard Pyne]

On 18 May 2005 at 15:16, Auke Kok wrote:

> Richard Pyne wrote:
> 
> >Last night I ran out of space on /var during a lunar update. To 
> >get some space, I cleared out /var/cache/lunar. Now lunar 
> >doesn't think I have anything installed. Even after re-linning 
> >some modules (like moonbase and theedge with all of its 
> >dependencies, lvu installed is still empty.
> >
> >Any ideas on what I need to do to get it to at least recognize 
> >the things I re-lin?
> >
> 
> 
> looks like you removed more than just /var/cache/lunar, which doesn't 
> contain any vital information about installed packages. You most likely 
> removed /var/state/lunar/* or similar. In any case, you can *attempt* to 
> autorebuild the list of installed packages with:

I was very careful in what I removed, it was only the files in 
/var/cache/lunar and /tmp. My thoughts were that since I ran out 
of space, probably something in /var/state/lunar was unable to 
be written.

> 
> lsh rebuild_status_files
> 
> This REQUIRES that your install logs are still present in 
> /var/log/lunar/install/. This code is very dangerous and might not work 
> too. Hope it helps you though.

/var/log/lunar/install is intact, I'll give it a try.

> sofar

Once again, you are a lifesaver.

Thanks.

--Richard