Hi folks,
Just an update to let you know that I was able to get over the large hurdle
of making the system bootalbe again by starting the installation, switching
to virtual console 2, mounting the / partition and then correcting my silly
errors that I described below. Now, some process in the system keeps
sending my account e-mail and its filling up my /home partition. This
should be easier to track down.
Thanks all,
Mark
Hi folks,
Well, I guess it happens to us all. Now its my turn. I've made the system
unbootable by accident and I'd like to get it back working. Here's what
happened:
Did an update from 5.2 to 6.2.
Found that the / file system filled (the installer went into the slack
space reserved for /)
Couldn't start X in any form (no room on /tmp)
cp'd /tmp to /usr/local/tmp (/usr/local is a different partition). (I of
course verified that everything was in /usr/local/tmp)
mv'd /tmp to /xtmp just to save it (sanity).
made a symlink from /usr/local/tmp to /tmp.
All seemed OK.
rm'd the /xtmp directory.
verified that /tmp exists and is a link to /usr/local/tmp
Tried to startx again and got the message that there was not enough free
space on /root. (darn)
OK, here's where things get messed up.
I followed the same set of steps to cp /bin to /usr/local/binroot , mv /bin
to /xbin and make a symlink between /usr/local/binroot and /bin.
Once I completed these steps, whenever I try to run a command such as 'ls',
I get a message that there the depth of symlinks has been exceeded. I
tried to rm the symlink to no avail.
Things started to go from bad to worse as the HDD started thrashing for no
apparent reason.
I shutdown (could not execute some commands in the shutdown
script. Shutdown didn't complete)
I tried to restart in single user mode but got the following message which
was repeated 6 times--once for each ID 1-6:
INIT: Id 1 respawing too fast. Waiting for 5 minutes
5 minutes later the same set of 6 messages appears. Bottom line is that I
can't seem to boot the system in order to fix the system.
Can anyone help me get the system back up?
Thanks,
Mark
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