[clue-tech] recover root? Ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix

[David L. Anselmi]

Jim Ockers wrote:
> Mike,
>
> You should never need to reinstall a Linux system unless the filesystem
> got corrupted somehow due to some sort of software glitch, which is
> really unlikely.

Amen to that.  I had a box that corrupted the perl executable.  Turns out that all kinds of apt 
stuff break without perl and then it won't do anything for you.  But I didn't have to reinstall (the 
fix might be in the archives somewhere...)

Dave