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On 25/10/17 11:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the power |
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> to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, |
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> [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I |
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> entered my username & password and then the fun began. |
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> I got: |
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> -bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file |
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> If I tried any command, say ls, I got: |
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> -bash: ls: no such file or dir |
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> I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent sysrescueCD |
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> and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it should |
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> have been text!!!! In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some |
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> reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or |
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> two I found on line are also text. |
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> Does anyone have any idea as to what's going on here? Should I just |
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> grab the profile.env from the boot disk and drop it into the /etc dir? |
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> Or should I go through the whole process of chroot off a gentoo disc and |
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> then run env-update as it says in the header of the text versions I'v seen? |
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> Thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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Well, I managed to work this out. I grabbed profile.env from a laptop |
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running gentoo and using sysrescuecd booted the desktop and dropped |
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profile.env into it's /etc dir. Fiddled the permissions and rebooted. |
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This time after the reboot, it only told me that it couldn't find |
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commands, ls, cd etc. Obviously pathing wasn't working. I found out |
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where env-update lived, /usr/sbin/env-update, providing the full path to |
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it, ran it then kicked over into another terminal, logged in and hey |
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presto, things are good. A reboot and this was confirmed. |
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The cause - I have no idea. It now works so I'm happy. Thanks for the |
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suggestions people provided, |
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Andrew |