Hello .. I seem to have done something very stupid. If anyone can tell me what exactly it was that I did wrong, or better still, help me recover what I'm very afraid might be a hopelessly trashed filesystem, I'd be very grateful.
The system is Debian 1.3, kernel version 2.0.30 I wanted to upgrade from bash-2.0 to bash-2.02 (to solve a problem with getting Netscape 4.05 and the Real Audio Player to work together). I downloaded bash-2.02 from the GNU archive and installed it in /usr/local. The binary in /usr/local/bin . The next step must have been where I committed my stupidity .... I renamed /bin/bash to /bin/bash-2.0 and make a symbolic link from /usr/local/bash-2.02 to /bin/bash (hoping that this would just drop the new bash in in place of the old) . Everything seemed fine; my problem was solved; I was happy. When I went to boot again today, I was not happy. Thr boot proceeded normally until: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly INIT: version 2.71 booting INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" INIT: entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU Linux 1.3 (none) tty1 (none) login root: root Password: Jul 11 15:03:20 login[8]: unable to change tty `dev/tty1' for user `root' Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file number Trying to shutdown gracefully with Ctl-Alt-Delete gives: INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6 INIT: Sending processess the TERM signal INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Give root password for maintenance (or type Ctl-D for normal startup): /bin/bash: No such file or directory /bin/sh: No such file or directory The root password seems to be recognized, but it seems that I've left the system with no way to find a shell. Have I destroyed this nice thing totally? I'd be very grateful indeed for any help or advice .... Jim McCloskey -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
