Re: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*

From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 05/03/04

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    To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 12:19:24 -0400

    "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:
    > > Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 -0700
    > > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
    > > 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. 

    -- 
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