RPM is totally fubar'd after hitting some kind of time-warp?
Jeremy Portzer
jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Sep 30 20:13:52 UTC 2003
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, KSC wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:46:59 -0400
> seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> > umm. This is bad.
> >
> > this is really bad.
> >
> > Are you sure you're not losing any other random bits on this system?
> >
> > -sv
>
> Nope. Not sure at all.
>
> I _think_ I see what happened, but I don't know for sure. My entire /var
> was replaced with the /var from the old 9.0.93 days.
>
> I was almost positive (apparently not the case) that I had told 0.94
> that /var was on a different partition. It appears as though I didn't.
> So the partition was never formatted, and apparently some point before
> that last reboot, I copied over fstab with my old one to avoid hand
> entering all of my customizations, and am now booting with 9.0.93's
> /var. <banging head on desk--hard>
Yeah, that's the other idea I had after sending my previous email, that
the wrong partitions were being mounted. Sorry Seth for mistakenly
blaming yum. :-)
> Sorry to bother y'all. I shall return to my rightful place under
> my rock.
Not a problem, it was an interesting question.
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