We ended up having to copy everything in the home directory from the maintenance terminal to an external flash drive, and doing a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 (the CD is currently on top of the TinyOS computer tower… make sure it is v9.10, not v9.04) We copied everything back over from the USB drive, and reinstalled the TinyOS runtime environment. The instructions for reinstalling TinyOS are laid out very clearly on this website:
http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Getting_started_using_Ubuntu_9.10_and_TelosB_motes
Note, this is for only i386 processors. This will not work for the Unix machine on the southeast wall, as it has an AMD x64 processor (I don’t think the debian package is included with x64).
Also, if an error comes up about a problem with tinyos-tools, go into synaptic (System>Administration), and install it. This gave me a dependency error, something about having to override items in nemerle. I uninstalled nemerle, and everything worked fine.
Finally, I believe we will only be able to get eagle to work on the AMD x64 machine, as the packages installed on the i386′s aren’t compatible, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to update them without errors.