RE: ok this is NOT good

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

yeah, files in lost+found I can deal with, but /usr/lib *exists*, it just
exists as a file with REALLY weird permissions.  I dont think there's any
way to explicitly tell it "you're a directory, behave", is there?  chmod
doesn't seem to be able to do it...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tobias Diedrich [SMTP:ranma@example.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:05 AM
> To:	'tlug@example.com'
> Subject:	Re: ok this is NOT good
> 
> 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 ?
> 
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