Re: ok this is NOT good

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:07:15AM -0700, Scott Stone wrote:

> Linux, so I select that.  it boots.  FS errors OUT THE YANG, so I reboot
> into single user, e2fsck -y the partition, it finishes, I reboot... nothing
> can find shared libraries... hmm. so I take a look, "ls -l /usr/lib" ..
> responds: /usr/lib:  not a directory.
> 
> very bad.  looks like the whole system is basically trash now.  I guess I'll

Something similar happened to me recently...
My system crashed and after reboot I just got a bash shell, no init no nothing.
When I did ls /sbin/init I got "no such file or directory".
Whoops, the whole sbin directory was missing.
I hooked the hard disk into my other system, did a fsck and got lot's of
/sbin/* files in /lost+found, without names of course...
Took me one hour to identify enough files to get it to boot so I could
reinstall the rpms containing files in the /sbin directory.
(The other system was using a differnt glibc version, so I figured I could
not just copy the directory...)

-- 
Tobias
nya~ni ?