From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 09:19:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from green.homeunix.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D6416A4CF; Mon, 3 May 2004 09:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (green@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i43GJO9m005846; Mon, 3 May 2004 12:19:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@green.homeunix.org) Message-Id: <200405031619.i43GJO9m005846@green.homeunix.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Kevin Oberman" In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin Oberman" <20040503152920.744795D07@ptavv.es.net> From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 12:19:24 -0400 Sender: green@green.homeunix.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Joshua Boyd cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: haig@sylac.de cc: Steve Kargl cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib* X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 16:19:26 -0000 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 -0700 > > From: Kris Kennaway > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > Joshua Boyd wrote: > > > > >> If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then > > >> boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your > > >> shell. Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount > > >> and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop. *rolls eyes* > > > > You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs > > -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of time > > recovering from errors. > > Lots of people live dangerously for a long time without realizing it. > I've been running CURRENT on my laptop since months before 5.0-Release > and I think I've only had to resort to my backup once. If I had been > luckier, it would have never happened. (And, if my timing had been a bit > worse, it could have happened a LOT more often.) > > Until someone has been bitten, they almost never do backups and, after > being bitten they get careless after a while. Takes a few bites (or a > really nasty one) before the lesson is really learned. I never lost a single thing to -CURRENT (lost a few "just modified" files to SoftUpdates/fsck default behavior, though) on my system for over half a decade -- in fact, I don't remember reinstalling since 1998 or so -- until an actual hardware failure recently. One CPU fan stopped and the temperatures got high enough I saw corruption of almost every partition on one hard drive (thankfully, though, not /home). I would never choose to equate running -CURRENT with "living dangerously." I know there are several cases in the past where certain drivers have been screwed up for a short period of time such that users of those less-ubiquitous devices would see that, but not stuff like normal IDE hard drives. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\