On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: > > > > > > > Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always > ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! > > > > > > > > > > You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really > paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit hits the fan. Happens.To > all of us. Unless you are one of those who never make mistakes, never get > sidetracked, never pay less than 100% attention, never assume where you are > actually supposed to know,... The list goes on. The OP had a knee jerk > reaction, did what had seemed insane on second thougt but didn't spent such. > It happens. He actually axplained how it happened. That's human. > > > > Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep > throwing stones in a glasshouse. > > For the OP: There was a long thread about this just last week. > > > > Uwe > > > > > > > > And since so many other people did this too, he just called a LOT of people > stupid. Not good. > > It didn't happen to me but only because I saw what other people did and > that mktemp was the one to get rid of instead of coreutils. Otherwise, I > would have been one of the stupid people too. Then again, I have backups. > :-p > > Dale >
Thanks Dale, Uwe, and everyone else who responded. I really appreciate your support. Not worth a email to answer my detractor. He has his point of view. I suppose he's entitled. The system is back to working now as far as I can tell. Without all of you I would hardly have known exactly how to proceed. With your help I made some headway. Not sure yet whether it will reboot successfully but at least I could emerge coreutils and mktemp successfully again. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
