[ale] My Mandrake 7.1 Problem

[Eric Z. Ayers]

All I have to say is that I think you are "nuts" if you aren't willing
to re-install because it is too much trouble, but you are going through 
all of this.  Backup your system and re-install.  All I have to say is 
that you will be back in business much more quickly.   If it isn't an
option because you're afraid of nuking your data, go find or borrow a
hard drive, install on it and recover your data from your old disk.  

-Eric.

Michael B Golden writes:
 > Hello all,
 >         If you remember, I had accidentally killed all of the files in
 > the /usr/bin directory and have been trying to repair my installation
 > since. Reinstalling is not an option. I have restored all of the files
 > via a manual rpm -Uvh --force of all of the packages missing files. In my
 > previous email I mentioned 2 problems. One was that my mouse wouldn't
 > work and another is that sound wouldn't work right. I was able to resolve
 > the mouse problem this morning and now it works well. Now, my only major
 > problem (there are still a few minor things) that won't work is the
 > sound. I've looked through my documentation and have been unable to find
 > anything on it. Here is what happens when I try to run mpg123 with an mp3
 > file. 
 > 
 > High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
 > Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
 > Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
 > THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
 > neighbour table overflow
 > Unable to bind port 16001
 > 
 >         The first time I run it, it gives the table overflow error twice
 > and no port error, but every time after that, it shows the above errors.
 > I've tried other sound programs and they haven't worked either. Oh,
 > related to that, does anyone know why if I tell xmms to play a file it
 > the progress bar would go quite fast and not play a sound? (This happened
 > before I screwed up /usr/bin)
 > 
 > Thanks for any tips in advance,
 > Michael Golden
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