Hello:
I recently used the "upgrade" option of my openSuse Leap 15.4 DVD disk
to reinstall the operating system, along with many other commands and
programs. I have a 64 bit system, X86_64.
Tonight, much to my consternation, when trying to use the "ps" command,
it was absent. I brought up Yast2 which is the software manager for the
system and reinstalled "procps" which is the pkg containing several
important system commands, such as ps and others.
Imagine my consternation when I discovered that ps was linking to
itself, 0 content file and the pgrep and pkill are identical files (ELF
signature) but md5sum showed the exact same file for each, so they
obviously cannot be the true pkill and true pgrep but some other trojan
file perhaps? sysctl is also circularly linked to itself 0 bytes
Reinstalling using YAST2 is not working here and a bad miss install occurs.
I also discovered that at root level four folders are linked
/bin --> /usr/bin
/sbin --> /usr/sbin
/lib --> /usr/lib
/lib64 --> /usr/lib64
Aren't these 4 folders supposed to be at root level, not linking over
the a subfolder under /usr ???
Should I completely clean the hard drive and start all over?
I really need the ps command to keep track of the PID tasks running, but
now I have nothing.
This just happened this late evening (around 9 pm) as things were okay
earlier.
Please let me know what to do ??
Thank you for your advice
- Randall
