Urza9814 Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 (edited) Ok...what do these progs have in common? OOo MCC Mozilla Firefox Epiphany URPMI and some VNC prog (not sure the name...not tightVNC) The reason I'm asking is I did something...and they all went away. Wouldn't be too bad if I hadn't lost mcc and urpmi...but...without them I can't see how I can do ANYTHING (well, other than DLing all the RPMs...but that'd be annoying and it woudln't fix the urpmi/mcc problem). I was messing around, trying to get irssi to work...screwing with perl and ssl, and I gave up, and tried to go to rpmdrake for some other stuff (not sure exactly what actually...lol)...and it didn't work. So I tried mcc...didn't work...so I tried 'em in konsole...said command not found. I logged out and back in (usually fixes screwy problems like these...had a lot on 10.1)...and now they aren't even on the (KDE) menu anymore. The only thing I can get out of any of them is from URPMI: Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22. so...did I screw up perl? And is there any way to fix it, short of a reinstall (tried one without formatting but it locked up) if I have to reformat I suppose I should anyways...go back to 9.2...10.1's been causing so many problems for me...9.2 never gave me any...I suppose I could try 10.2...but...I wouldn't have enough CDs :P Edited May 14, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thirtyeast Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 I can't say what happened, but one thing all those have in common is PERL, as in scripts. All use perl scripts to run. If Perl is damaged, so are they. Try reinstalling/upgrading perl?? I am not an expert.. just a common sense kinda guy. ('course, they all have bash scripts too.. I'm guessing bash works fine (no errors loging in to a terminal?) enjoy bobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 (edited) aight...I went into the mandrake download page, installed perl from there, and now urpmi works...but...I still don't have mcc...anyone know how I can get that back? I'm going to search the rpms on that page for the mcc rpms, but I have a feeling that's gonna take a while and a lot of packages...anyone have any better ideas? edit: ahh...I see...I have to urpmi draktools...getting rpmdrake right now...whose dependancies seem to be causing a buncha the other ones to be installed too. ok...I installed all that stuff...and I installed every package on the site that said 'drake', but I still don't have mcc...though I have most of the apps individually, so...I guess it's ok...but I'd really like to have the real mcc back...lol edit2: aight, that's it, I'm formatting...something is seriously wrong here: [root@localhost urza9814]# urpmi mozilla Everything already installed [root@localhost urza9814]# mozilla bash: mozilla: command not found [root@localhost urza9814]# urpmi epiphany Everything already installed [root@localhost urza9814]# epiphany bash: epiphany: command not found [root@localhost urza9814]# rpmdrake bash: rpmdrake: command not found [root@localhost urza9814]# urpmi rpmdrake Everything already installed [root@localhost urza9814]# urpmi mozilla-firefox Everything already installed [root@localhost urza9814]# mozilla-firefox bash: mozilla-firefox: command not found Edited May 14, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Urza, I like your style. You just bit the bullet and reinstalled. That is the message I try to get across but most seem to prefer the hardest way, saying that is how they learn. Mostly masochists, I think. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Meh...nothing else worked, and reformatting isn't that big of a deal for me...I have two partitions, / and /home, so I only formatted /, and everything's working now...lost any root config files, but that's really just my xmms playlist (I load a lotta songs from my windoze drives, so I run xmms as root) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 And chances are it was only a minor issue with your $PATH variable. if it wasnt the $PATH variable and it was damaged packages and the files werent actually there, you could have always run Steve Scrimpshire's automagic fix it script. reinstalling seems to be the harder alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 reinstalling really isn't that hard...do you people not use a separate /home? It makes it soo much simpler...I just ran the installer...took about 20 minutes...and all my settings were still there, all my files were still there, no backing up needed...I lost a few apps, but those weren't that hard to replace... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Good one URZA. I am glad to see I am not the ony one who thinks that way. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 I don't think it was a $PATH thing, it was a 'you broke perl, you fool!' thing. You can fix a broken perl, but only if you have an afternoon to spare and some happy pills. Reinstalling definitely was the easy way out here. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 I don't think it was a $PATH thing, it was a 'you broke perl, you fool!' thing. You can fix a broken perl, but only if you have an afternoon to spare and some happy pills. Reinstalling definitely was the easy way out here. :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Or you could have run steves automagical fix it script. reinstall is never the solution :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 reinstall is never the solution what about when your mobo corrupts your hard drive? :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 reinstall is never the solution what about when your mobo corrupts your hard drive? :-P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> in that case the system is nonexistant, so theres no possible question of fixing it, it doesnt exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 iphitus: IMBW, but doesn't that script use urpmi? urpmi don't work when you break perl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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