Re: CRISIS: libcrypt.so.2 not found....

From: Bill Doman (bill_at_squirrel-solutions.com)
Date: 07/29/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:06:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply, Steve, but it turns out that I am, in fact, hosed.
No /usr/src, many, many other entire directories missing....

Oh, well, it gets me off my ***--this was a computer that shoulda been
rebuilt/replaced a LONG time ago. The good news is that my OLD ISP, who
I did tons of business with when I was in the business and also referred
many folks to, recently bought out my NEW ISP (who I needed to use
cause they were the only ones offering ISDN connections in the town my
local number is in). I just called up my old friend there and he's
hosting me for mail until I get back up (or decide to do without the
headache and just let him keep it <g>).

Bill

"Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:dcb2jj$gfj$3@gnus01.u.washington.edu...
> In article <bS4Ge.388$Gm6.72307@monger.newsread.com>,
> "Bill Doman" <bill@squirrel-solutions.com> writes:
>> My mail server got reset switch-rebooted inadvertently this morning.
>> It
>> initially appeared to come up fine, but I'm getting the above message
>> at
>> login--as in login requires, etc. I did an alt-ctrl-del and booted
>> into
>> single-user mode and it appears some of what once was there (like
>> /usr/src, to name one) no longer exist!
>
> You haven't described your partitioning. If /usr is on a different
> partition from /, then you need to mount /usr when you are in
> single user mode. Try
>
> # mount -a
>
> If /usr/src is still there, then do
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld
> # make installworld
>
>> I have no idea how to proceed at this point, other than rebuilding
>> the
>> system from scratch, which I'm kinda sorta loathe to do, especially
>> as
>> my wife'll kill me if the mail from the last day that she didn't get
>> off
>> the server is irretreviably lost. Any suggestions or am I hosed?
>
> There is always the possibility that you're hosed. However, before
> you panic. See if /usr/src is actually available.
>
> --
> Steve
> http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/

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