Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

[Rohit Sharma]

Dear all,

Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since
most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before.  A
conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my
system - I would assume. God knows what may have already broken down there.

I am very tempted to do the following:

   1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for /
      and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD]
   2. Rebuild it from scratch with the latest Gentoo ISO [but it is a
      HELL of work, getting USB internet modem and nVIDIA module
      rebuild.. working again etc etc]

If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know.

Rohit

Rohit Sharma wrote:

>Bo Andresen wrote:....
>Rohit replies --
>
>Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just
>in case.  Done.
>The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens.
>- PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That
>is all. "/usr/bin" comes before "/bin" in PATH
>- "/bin/ln" is a proper executable. "/usr/bin/ln" and "/usr/bin/mc" are
>both symlinks to "/bin/ln" [Not good]
>- Removed mc from "/usr/bin" and "/usr/bin/ln" disappears as well [Not
>good] Then "which ln" shoes "/bin/ln" and "which mc" shows no mc.
>-  Creation of symlink /usr/bin/ln automatically creates symlink
>/usr/bin/mc - pointing to /bin/ln [thus affecting my midnight
>commander]. Both symlinks have same inode number on my filesystem. Also
>note that I do not have another definition of ln as an alias.
>
>This may be a filesystem inconsistency. I would consider an fsck for
>reiserfs and may be a rebuiltree. What do you say?
>
>Please help.
>Thanks,
>Rohit
>Ps - Commands follow.
>====================================
>Please look at the following.
>
>rohit@Force ~ $ echo $PATH
>/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin
>rohit@Force ~ $ cd /bin
>rohit@Force /bin $ md5sum ln
>95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75  ln
>rohit@Force /bin $ ls -l ln
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 ln
>rohit@Force /bin $ cd /usr/bin
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ md5sum ln
>95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75  ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -l ln
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 ln -> /bin/ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ md5sum mc
>95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75  mc
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -l mc
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 mc -> /bin/ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ file mc
>mc: symbolic link to `/bin/ln'
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ rm mc
>rm: remove symbolic link `mc'? y
>rm: cannot remove `mc': Permission denied
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ sudo rm mc
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ls -l mc
>ls: mc: No such file or directory
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -l ln
>ls: ln: No such file or directory
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ which ln
>/bin/ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ which mc
>which: no mc in
>(/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin)
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ which mc
>/usr/bin/mc
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ which ln
>/usr/bin/ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -i ln mc
>300 ln  300 mc
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -li ln mc
>300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 ln -> /bin/ln
>300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 mc -> /bin/ln
>rohit@Force /usr/bin $ ls -li /bin/ln
>34560 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 /bin/ln
>rohit@Force ~ $ alias ln
>bash: alias: ln: not found
>
>
>


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Rohit Sharma
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