Re: [Sheflug] Oh gloom

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:28 27/02/02 +0000, Chris J wrote:


>Get a boot CD (or some other rescue disk like tomsrtbt), boot that and get to
>a shell. Once there, mount the root fs of your linux system under /mnt, then
>check things like /mnt/etc/inittab.
>
>It does sound like there's a missing/broken library though. See if you can
>run /mnt/bin/bash ... if so find the startup scripts (/etc/rc.* IIRC on SuSE)
>and find the one that prompts for the root password (I think the command is
>sulogin). Comment that out and stick /bin/bash instead.
>
>Reboot.
>
>It might totally fall over this time, depending on what libs are missing.
>Alternativly it might throw you straight to a prompt. The latter is preferred
>:) If you /do/ get a bash prompt, you can start playing/investigating from
>there. If not then you'll have some fun and games...
>
>So reboot with rescue CD, see if you can copy the libs that /bin/bash needs
>from rescue disk/CD onto your system disk. Make backups of existing libs if
>it looks like you're going to overwrite. Now reboot without rescue disk.
>
>The basic premise is to get a working shell in single user as from there,
>things are straightforward in comparison to doing everything from a rescue
>disk. Especially if its a library screw up.

Thanks very much Chris, I'll try that and get back to you.

>Disaster recover is always fun :)

Oh yes! ;-)


Steve


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