[OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files missing on 151a4

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I should add that I cannot remember why I had both the standard 
imagemagick from openindiana.org AND the sfe version.
This is fishy, I distinctly remember deciding that I wanted to remove 
the openindiana.org one and replace it with the sfe one.
Not for any rational reason, I just planned on playing with the sfe one 
a bit. And I have done that, and did not have a problem.
And I was quite convinced I hade removed the openindiana.org one.

Still, something like that can be planned but never executed on account 
of being interrupted, or a cat walking across my keyboard when I went 
for a coffee, but I don't think so.

On 2012-05-06 20:42, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> actually it is much more of a problem than just the below man files.
>
> all of /usr/local has disappeared, and select trees and single files.
>
> The complete story:
>
> I run various things from directories in /usr/local, and I know for a 
> fact they all worked perfectly this morning.
>
> For some reason I thought I'd try upgrading OI151a3 to a4, and the 
> updatemanager application listed a set of problematic packages: 
> Imagemagick, drupal6, joomla and Bash-completion.
> The last three were leftovers overlooked when I discarded the contrib 
> repository, and had directory property conflicts with other packages. 
> I removed those three by clicking one at a time and uninstalling them 
> thru the packagemanager.
>
> Imagemagick had a massive set of conflicts listed between itself and 
> the sfe version. I removed the sfe version thru the package manager.
>
> After this I ran updatemanager and rebooted into the new BE. There I 
> ran pkg fix, just to check what it looked like. After that I tried man 
> pkg, which failed.
> Then all the services I ran out of /usr/local were gone.
>
> I rebooted back into the previous BE, but it's all gone there, too.
> It's also gone from the snapshot created by the update manager this 
> morning.
>
> It's very little actual data missing. Just a few hundred MB.
>
> I have most of it available in a month-old snapshot of /, but that 
> thing with directory permissions got me thinking maybe it's all there, 
> just hidden somewhere... ???
>
> Suggest a rational way to get all the data back!
> Or some interesting way, at least.
>
> I'm nearly comfortable running zfs as an admin, but no expert, and not 
> very conversant with the inner structure of zfs pools or data sets.
> I haven't ever really had to restore data from snapshots in an active 
> root pool.
>
>
>
>
> On 2012-05-06 15:42, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> After updating to OI151a4 using updatemanager, I find most manual 
>> files in man1 missing!
>>
>> Is this my own faulty management practices, or has anyone else seen 
>> the same?
>>
>> pfexec pkg fix
>>
>> lists tons of missing man1 files