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Hi,

On 4/3/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello
>
> I followed the link to tkman.sourceforge.net and it pointed to two file
> download links, I downloaded the files, and in the process of extracting the
> files, something must have happened, my browser completely failed the next
> time I logged in. I am not sure if it is because of the tkman download. I
> tried to launch my browser from Java Desktop, from CDE, the browser did not
> launch. There was an indication of any error message either... All this when
> logged in as root.
>

tkman is just a set of files (no folders) that do not clash with the
filenames of any other application. This is unlikely  to have been the cause
for problem.

Can you detail the exact steps that you did.
1. As root user, I logged into the system
2. Connected to tkman.sourceforge.net and downloaded tkman2......
3. Extracted the archive using the browser/shell (???)... into the dir
xyz...
4. ...


Within the 1.7 browser there is an email client,
>

Mozilla (?).

I have downloaded a lot messages and wonder what happened to the email file
> folder.
>

Check the hidden folders in the home directory to see if the data still
exists. ( ~/.mozilla directory should have the application settings as well
as the email folders)


Should I reinstall Solaris 10 ? Is there are way of repairing the browser
> without going through the reinstallation routine ?
>

[1] If it is just the browser settings that is the problem try moving the
application directory ( mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bkp) and invoke the browser
once again. If there is no problem with the file-system/installation, the
browser will comeup as though you invoked it for the first time.

[2] If it is the installation that has gone bad. Just picking the
/usr/sfw/lib/mozilla from another installed system and putting it here
should solve it. BUT, as Venky indicated there might be many other things
that have gone wrong (and why). You'll need to check this.

[3] If the problem is in the file-system (what hardware is this?), perform a
filecheck (as root user fsck -m and fsck -n).
fsck command does a filesystem check. -m option checks if the filesystems
are mountable.
fsck -n performs the checks without making any changes to the system.
If the problem is in the filesystem, then were there any cold boots? Is it
just the user home partition or do other partitions also have problems.


If I should reinstall the entire O/S is there a way of reninstalling without
> damaging the existing files and the partition / slicing structure ?
>

Should be avoidable if the system files are intact. If data that was present
is important, that may be a reason to worry than re-installation.

Thank you.
> Sivasubramanian
>
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