Greetings all;
As those of you the the USA know, Southern WV took a beating from the
weather last night and today. Heavy rains, high winds combined to kill
the power for about 25% of the states population, and threaten to drown
quite a few. My own automatic 20 kw nat gas standby ran from about 3:20
Thursday morning until a final restart shortly after 18:00 local. So I
am busy catching up on my email, when apparently my ups did not properly
restart after one of the inevitable short term power up's when the line
crews are closing circuits to see if they fault again because there yet
another down tree laying on the lines a half mile around the corner.
So I'm typing away on a message reply when the screen goes black, the ups
has a low battery and kills the load. Restarting the ups was a matter
of holding down the power button for 3 or 4 seconds, followed by a trip
to the tower to tap its power switch. Everything solved as soon as its
booted, right?
Wrong... No /usr/bin/X to be found. I had to totally apt-get
install --re-install all of the Xorg-server stuff, 35 or 40 packages,
to get the missing /usr/bin/X. That may not have been the only package
that was nuked by the untimely powerdown but I've no way to verify that.
But why should a powerdown as unceremonious as pulling the plug, have
deleted /usr/bin/X? It doesn't grok at this site.
Clues?
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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