/lib/terminfo gone

[Daniel Albuschat]

2009/9/17 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:32:03PM +0200, Daniel Albuschat wrote:
>> when people reported trouble with the services on our Ubuntu 6.06.2
>> server, I noticed that no curses-programs are working anymore
>> (including screen, aptitude, clear, many many more).
>> They all report different errors meaning the same: The terminfo is not
>> available. I looked into /etc/terminfo and README told me that I
>> should be looking in /usr/share/terminfo. There are only symlinks
>> there, which are all pointed at non-existing files like e.g.
>> /lib/terminfo/x/xterm.  When I looked at /lib/terminfo, the directory
>> was a *file* instead of a directory, displayed yellow in coloured ls
>> output (these are devices, right?).
>
> Sorry, I don't remember the colours.  ls -l will print the type of the
> thing as the first character.  But it isn't right -- I suspect
> filesystem corruption.

And I don't exactly remember the first character, iirc it was a 'b'.
Filesystem corruption was my first guess, too.

>> Sorry I don't have the exact ls
>> output anymore, but it definitely looked strange; for example it had
>> no permissions set at all.
>>
>> Now I'm facing the problem that I have to restore this terminfo
>> directory and have no clue about where to start.
>> Do you  have any idea how I could accomplish this?
>
> Run fsck on the root partition (after mounting it read-only), then
> reinstall ncurses-base.

Yes, that's what I was going to do when I have some time while the
server is not needed. Just wanted to get it back to work asap and do
the cleanup later. A new harddisk for this machine arrived a few days
earlier, anyways... guess that was pretty bad timing.

Thank you very much for your help.

> Marius Gedminas
> --
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