I need a tiny favor from a Mandrake user...

[Concrete Geist]

I've messed up my ld.so.config (is that the _exact_name??).

I need someone to post up the contents of /etc/ld.so.config
I've changed the contents of mine, and I need to know EXACTLY what was inside, cause I've lost my X Windowing system because of it.

[SUOrangeman]

What version of Mandrake?

I don't think I have an install up and running here at work. I have 8.1 beta 1 up at home.

-SUO

[Choozo]

My installation of Mandrake 8.0 has these two lines only .... in /etc/ld.so.conf:

/usr/X11R6/lib/wine
/usr/X11R6/lib


Is that what you needed? :)


Free Tip!
Make a backup of every file you 'mess' with _before_ 'messing' with them :D


[ 21 August 2001: Message edited by: Choozo ]

[Concrete Geist]

heh, I tried to put the file onto a floppy, but the floppy turned out to be full so I just said f*** it, what the worse that could happen?

Next day, I'm re-installing Mandrake :rolleyes: That was dumb of me.

[Choozo]

Well, no need to backup those files on floppies. Just copy them to a different name in the same directory, e.g.:
cp ld.so.conf ld.so.conf.ORG

If things go sour, just copy or move the *.ORG file back again:
cp ld.so.conf.ORG ld.so.conf


Cheers :)

[Concrete Geist]

good idea.

[frank754]

also, I found that your favorite stuff and
config files can be copied to /mnt/win_c
if you dual boot, and easily transferred
back with no data loss, even though it's
a vfat partiton. I keep all my new
source code and patches there, just in
case I get emotionally hasty and reinstall
the distro, so I can copy them back in.
I noticed that generally when installing
a new distro, it won't neccessary overwrite
your /home partition unless you allow it
to, so at least with Mandrake that area
should be safe.