On Mon, July 19, 2010 12:47 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 19), David Brodbeck said: >> That doesn't work, unfortunately. Once you rename ld-elf.so.1 to >> ld-elf.so.1.old, trying to run any further commands -- even mv and cp -- >> fails with an error. (I didn't write down which one; something about >> failing to load the ELF interpreter, I think.) I know, I managed to >> cripple my system that way. I had to boot a LiveCD to recover, because >> it >> couldn't even load /bin/sh to get into single-user mode. > > A better method would be to copy (not move) the file to a backup location, > then either use mv or install to install the new version. Also, the > programs in /rescue/ are statically linked so they can be used to recover > if > you end up losing ld-elf.so.1 or other critical shared libs.
That was actually what I tried first, but I got a file in use error when I tried to overwrite it with the new version. Good to know about /rescue. I'll remember that next time something like this happens. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
