I've been running 5.1-CURRENT for a while and a couple nights ago did
a make world. After a couple hours building, my system was
unusable. Critical binaries like rm, ls, mtree, sh failed,
reporting Exec format error. I can't login, not even single user.
I can no longer even boot single user.
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Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: I'm looking for recommendations on how to recover, hopefully without
: trashing my critical system files like /etc/passwd. Ideally, I guess
: I'd like a way to replace all the broken binaries and any related
:
Hiya,
Chris Shenton wrote:
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Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Yes, You need to exploit the notion of booting from another root
filesystem, mounting the broken root, and then taking corrective action on
the corrupted files.
The easy way is to grab a recent livecd from the jp
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:50:22AM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote:
I've been running 5.1-CURRENT for a while and a couple nights ago did
a make world. After a couple hours building, my system was
unusable. Critical binaries like rm, ls, mtree, sh failed,
reporting Exec format error. I can't
masta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The easy way is to grab a recent livecd from the jp snapshot service.
[ http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ ]
With the jpsnap livecd I was able to boot, copy all the working
binaries from the cdrom over the corrupt binaries on the local HDD. I
suggest you try the
Allegedly Chris Shenton said
masta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The easy way is to grab a recent livecd from the jp snapshot service.
With the jpsnap livecd I was able to boot, copy all the working
binaries from the cdrom over the corrupt binaries on the local HDD. I
suggest you try the same
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:50, Chris Shenton wrote:
I've been running 5.1-CURRENT for a while and a couple nights ago did
a make world. After a couple hours building, my system was
unusable. Critical binaries like rm, ls, mtree, sh failed,
reporting Exec format error. I can't login, not even
Barney Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Re-install/upgrade from a cd. Upgrade should leave your files alone.
Thanks, Barney -- that's what I did and it saved my butt.
A few folks suggested either LiveCD images or fixit functionality.
I was kinda dead in the water and didn't think I could
