FC3 (urgent): /lib/ empty system wants /lib/ld-linux.so.2 andbox dont execute commands...

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:39 +0200, Danny Terweij wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
> 
> > > My /lib/ is empty. probaly someone (more admins) deleted the files by
> > > accident.
> 
> > As I'm sure you've guessed by the roaring silence, there is no "easy"
> > way to do this.  You really need to restore from backup.
> 
> > You *do* have a backup, don't you?  :-)
> 
> No backup from the /lib/  :S
> 
> >From another system i packaged the lib dir into a tar.gz, making sure that
> the used kernel on the crashed box is the same on the box i used
> (/lib/modules/)

So it *could* be said you are restoring from backup, like I originally
said - just a backup of an identical system.  :-)

> Boot rescue cd, start network, wget the created tar.gz to /mnt/sysimage/tmp
> unpack
> copy unpacked files to /mnt/sysimage/lib
> and reboot.
> 
> Testing it now on a vmware created box to see if it works. (i think it works
> anyway this way).
> 
> So nobody seems to think about this way? lol fun :)

Ugh - if that's your idea of fun, you need therapy!  :-)

Good luck, and let us know if you fix it.

TC