[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A computer-clueless co-worker of mine had a similar problem under OS 10.1.??. She reinstalled the OS on top of the current fubarred installation and things were magically fixed.It's just another anecdote, but our iMac booted recently to a root shell, requesting a manual fsck.
YMMV.
My wife, knowing nothing about Unix, simply cycled power on the computer to "fix" it. It tried to boot, but complained about a lot of things being gone in /etc.
She reinstalled from the Jaguar CDs, and the system came back, and knew about all of the accounts and other info that I assumed would have to be recreated. The only thing lost was the password change my daughter had done the night before.
I was impressed. Past Unix experience told me we were hosed when she didn't do the manual fsck.
So, I would say if all looks lost, reinstalling over the top *might* restore things to sanity. No guarantees, but worth a try.
Geoff
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Geoff Allen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], <http://www.wsu.edu/~geoff/>
I love being a sysadmin, because it is the only job where going
non-linear *always* solves the problem.
-- Mark "Irwin" Bentkower, [EMAIL PROTECTED], in alt.sysadmin.recovery
