Tom Buskey wrote: > On 10/10/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 2007, at 17:31, Ben Scott wrote: >> >> >>> Did you know 'rpm' will let you remove every package from the >>> system? >>> >> rm lets you remove libc too. DAMHINT. >> > > > I had a user call about a user supported system that was having issues. We > explicitly do not support it and the users only use the root account. > > He gave me the root account to login and I couldn't. I went to his system & > looked around. /etc was empty. I told him he was fsked and he should ftp > any files he wanted to elsewhere & that he wouldn't be able to login again > or reboot. In any event, we were not supporting it. > > Sure enough, a help desk ticket came in for another admin, claiming that the > system got corrupted during bootup. Why do users lie so often? All it does > is obscure the problem... > Hmmm. Did you check lost+found? I've had similar symptoms only to discover that there was indeed a bad sector that remapped all of /etc/ and some of /var and /usr. fsck didn't help much until I moved the drive to another system and ran fsck there.
But you're right - if its not supported, then they'll have to go elsewhere to get this done. BTW: My point is: the user may not have lied, but was just calling the shot as s/he saw them. --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/