Prelink hosed my binaries?

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Fri Feb 6 02:31:50 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 08:06, Steve Bergman wrote:
> Anyone else wake up to a totally hosed system this morning?  A
> substantial portion of my binaries (including bash) are wrecked and show
> up as "data" when I use the "file" command on them. No ELF header at
> all.
> 
> Everything was fine last night. I'm assuming prelink was the culprit. 
> However, last time prelink was updated was 2 days ago, not 1, so last
> night would have been the second time it was run, not the first. 
> Weird...

Interesting....

A couple days ago my co-worker was telling me that he turned on his
previously fine FCv1 laptop and most of his binaries were hosed. On
examination the binaries had log files (/var/log/*) contents
interspersed through them. He reinstalled.

It could be complete unrelated of course.

Dax Kelson





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