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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!bedgrayne From: norman.67@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (James L. Norman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Package info gone?-argh Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 04:44:16 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <45a9bu$pcp@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip5-9.acs.ohio-state.edu Keywords: packages ports X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Hi. I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 and was attempting to install some of the ports collection by grabbing the skeleton files from ftp.freebsd.org. This worked nicely for the most part-very slick, BTW (kudos to the people who developed this idea). I installed various things-es, xcoral (had problems with this one), tcl 7.4, etc. Unfortunately, I attempted to do something else too stressful during one of these installs, and the system crashed. The result is my current problem. Apparently, the package info got wiped out in the crash or the file sys check afterwards. Is there any way to fix this? (short of a total reinstall?) Also, I have one other little question. In Xwindows, the mouse behaves...strangely. I can not select items on the menus of x applications. In other words, I can pull down the menus but can't select anything-the black (select) highlight is not visible. Any ideas? Thanks James Norman norman.67@osu.edu