[plug] Debian puzzle, very weird.

[Leon Brooks]

On Monday 07 April 2003 21:38, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:35:58PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
>| I tried `apt-get --reinstall install libc6' and ditto for grep on Machine
>| B, to no obvious effect (no better, no worse). Shutting all and sundry
>| down and fsck'ing (-f) doesn't report any error.

> Hrm.  Have you tried reinstalling coreutils or whatever `dpkg -S
> /bin/sync` tells you they called it in woody?

fileutils.

Quote, `Sorry, re-installation of fileutils is not possible, it cannot be 
downloaded.'

> Is it possible the kernel image could have been somehow corrupted on
> disc, and things started going hideously wrong after a reboot?

Things started to go hideously wrong before a reboot, which is why they were 
last rebooted. )-:

> I'll admit to not having any real understanding of how the above could
> have occurred,

Me, too. (-:

Cheers; Leon