Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -31- I reinstalled an IRIX subsystem to restore a missing file or get rid of a corrupted file, but it didn't help. Next Document: -33- How can I install IRIX onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 12 May 1996 00:00:01 EST Paul "Mr. inst" Jackson of SGI <pj@sgi.com> explains two reasons: - The "orphan" subsystem is a special subsystem for directories in which more than one product keeps files. inst will remove these directories as they become empty. Do NOT remove the subsystem yourself. In fact, you can only see it due to a cosmetic bug in some versions of inst. - The product spec file in /var/inst which describes that subsystem is damaged, due either to the usual sort of file-damaging problems or to a bug in IRIX 5.3's inst. This also makes inst think that that product is version 0, and thus incompatible with every other subsystem. There is no patch for the bug. The workaround is to reinstall the affected subsystems with all files restricted, so that no files are actually installed but the product spec file is updated, like so: inst -f whatever -X/ Inst> set exclusions # Should be set to "Value /" Inst> keep * Inst> install upgrade Inst> list i # Should see the unknown entries Inst> go Inst> quit User Contributions:Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -31- I reinstalled an IRIX subsystem to restore a missing file or get rid of a corrupted file, but it didn't help. Next Document: -33- How can I install IRIX onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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