Everything broked?

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Ian · Post by **Ian** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 9:05 am

This is a strange problem that cropped up a few days ago. I noticed much of X was missing. Where it went, I have no idea. I reemerged X, and it all worked.

Now, this morning, I tried starting X, and it gave me a bunch of errors, both X and Fluxbox related. So, I decided to reemerge X and fluxbox while I'm in school.

I planned on reinstalling Gentoo next week, because I need to clean my old XP partition out, and move everything around, and then attempt a dual boot.

Is this strange activity a sign that someone has cracked my computer? I don't see how this could be possible, as it's behind a hardware firewall. Also the fact that there's a bunch of windows machines on my LAN (family computers) which are a lot easier to crack, no...?

Oh well, I'd at least like to know why this strange behavior is happening, and then if there is a solution, that'd be even better (but not 100% needed, as I'm reinstalling next week).

derk · Post by **derk** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:38 am

when was the last time you fsck'd your drives? From your description i first suspect a hardware problem or possibly a wayward script in cron. I'd back-up all essential data before a reboot though.

Also what are your disc/partitions formated as? ext2, ext3, xfs, ?? And which kernel are you using?

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:45 am

Ian wrote:This is a strange problem that cropped up a few days ago. I noticed much of X was missing. Where it went, I have no idea. I reemerged X, and it all worked.

I had this problem yesterday - came home and found that X has decided that it wanted to behave really strangely.

Did an

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emerge -p xfree

and found that it believed that I had xfree 3.4, instead of 4.3! Sure enough, looking into /usr/X11R6/lib I found that I was missing heaps of libraries...

Remerging xfree fixed it... but it's still got me scared

James

dylix · Post by **dylix** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 11:43 am

i had the same thing happen. i think someone fucked up with the ebuild

and they aren't saying anything about it

hype · Post by **hype** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:08 pm

Here is why the xfree thing happened: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=60192

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:29 am

hype wrote:Here is why the xfree thing happened: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=60192

Which is a good thing to know *after* you've "upgraded"

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