On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all, > My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the > power to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, > [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I > entered my username & password and then the fun began. > > I got: > > -bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file > > If I tried any command, say ls, I got: > > -bash: ls: no such file or dir > > I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent > sysrescueCD and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it > should have been text!!!! In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some > reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or two > I found on line are also text. > > Does anyone have any idea as to what's going on here? Should I > just grab the profile.env from the boot disk and drop it into the /etc dir? > Or should I go through the whole process of chroot off a gentoo disc and > then run env-update as it says in the header of the text versions I'v seen? > > Thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > > Something else for you to try. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797683-start-0.html
