/var/log/packages vanished
 

Err, I'm at a little loss here. I just installed 10.2 (fresh and formatted hard drive), did the usual complete installation (I'm lazy), and everything's looking good. So, once rebooted, I proceed to build a kernel (2.6.13.2), install it and reboot. No noticable problems.

Then, I proceed to remove a couple of packages using pkgtool, but I have no list of packages to remove. According to pkgtool, I have absolutely no packages installed. Turns out that /var/log/packages and scripts are empty. :scratch:

Has anyone had this problem before? Any ideas on how this could've happened?

'slocate pkgtools' still yields '/var/log/packages/pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-5' for me, so at least I know the logs used to be there. I can't find any mentions of mounting errors or partition corruption in the system logs, so I have no idea of what has wiped out my package logs.

Wow

I have no idea what could have created this problem, perhaps some bug in the pkgtools.

But I can say with pretty high certainty that you are well and truly boned here. Without the packages lists, you will never be able to update your system.

How odd! Well, thankfully it's a fresh install with only a new kernel. I'll just reinstall Slackware and pray to God that whatever prankster caused this will choke and die. ;)

yea, you are boned... Re-install would be the only thing I could think of.