Thanks for the replies Gilles and Cameron. I tried the suggestion to do apt-get --reinstall -u install
and it does seem to have gotten things back ALMOST to where they should be. still a couple of obvious problems. I have no sound for some reason. I checked and things like /dev/audio0 ARE correct (root:audio) now. I get an errror message when I try to open the volume control and volume is greyed out on something like totem. Not really sure what might still be wrong to prevent audio from working.... The second thing I have noticed is that the terminal doesn't work. I CAN open up the terminal (gui), but there is an error message saying "cannon open child process", and the terminal itself is unusable. There is no prompt and I can't actually type anything in it. (Still going in by ssh from a remote machine.) Any ideas on these anyone? By the way Cameron, I did try knoppix, but since it is only a 32 bit OS I can't chroot into my existing filesystem. However, there is a ubuntu amd64 live CD that I could use to do this. Like Knoppix it is a live CD, but unlike it, it comes in 32 and 64 bit versions. Craig
