On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote:
> On 25/10/17 11:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the power > > to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, > > [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I > > entered my username & password and then the fun began. > > > > I got: > > > > -bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file > > > > If I tried any command, say ls, I got: > > > > -bash: ls: no such file or dir > > > > I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent sysrescueCD > > and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it should > > have been text!!!! In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some > > reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or > > two I found on line are also text. > > > > Does anyone have any idea as to what's going on here? Should I just > > grab the profile.env from the boot disk and drop it into the /etc dir? > > Or should I go through the whole process of chroot off a gentoo disc and > > then run env-update as it says in the header of the text versions I'v > seen? > > > > Thoughts greatly appreciated, > > > > Andrew > > > > > > Well, I managed to work this out. I grabbed profile.env from a > laptop > running gentoo and using sysrescuecd booted the desktop and dropped > profile.env into it's /etc dir. Fiddled the permissions and rebooted. > This time after the reboot, it only told me that it couldn't find > commands, ls, cd etc. Obviously pathing wasn't working. I found out > where env-update lived, /usr/sbin/env-update, providing the full path to > it, ran it then kicked over into another terminal, logged in and hey > presto, things are good. A reboot and this was confirmed. > > The cause - I have no idea. It now works so I'm happy. Thanks for > the > suggestions people provided, > > Andrew > > Posting your query on the gentoo-portage-dev mailing list might get you a more informed response as to why this happened in the first place.
