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

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I  managed to determine (ocular inspection of "ls" in several snapshots) 
that the only files missing were about 1200 man pages in man1, and the 
entire /usr/local tree.

And I think it must have happened as I removed the sfe version of 
imagemagick.

I'm ok now, I think.

I still wonder what could have happened?
On 2012-05-07 02:56, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 20:48:26 +0200
> From: "Hans J. Albertsson"<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se>
> To:openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files
> 	missing on	151a4
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> 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