On Tuesday 13 Mar 2007 21:31, Stoyan Angelov wrote:
> Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> > hi List,
> >
> > We have had a solaris V210 box given to us to host and fix, it was
> > thought that ld.so.1 was at fault, so it was suggested that we should
> > copy the file from /etc/ to /usr/lib as they appeared to be the same, but
> > before we coped of the offending file, it was saved as a copy via cp -p.
> >
> > Needles to say that this had the effect of shooting ourselves in the
> > foot...so to get back out of the fault, booted off an install CD, mounted
> > the file system and renamed back from the copy to it's original file
> > name. But now at the end of booting we get errors about /proc not being
> > able to be mounted and a lot of "ILLEGAL instruction"'s.
> >
> > Help..!!!
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue as to what has gone wrong and/or how we might be
> > able to fix it..
> >
> > I don't understand how renaming a file to a backup name and then back
> > again could end up with the error above.
> >
> > Thanks for reading ....
>
> hi Stephen,
>
> i am no sure that i fully understand what you did. you first mention
> that you have "copied" the file... then you say that you have "renamed
> back".
Hi Stoyan,
Sorry - what I meant was that I did a cp -p on the original file and then
after it didn't change anything, I did the same on the copy but in reverse so
that the original was back as it's old name.
Ie i did "cp -p ld.so.1 ld.so.1-save" and then
i did "cp -p ld.so.1-save ld.so.1"
> for example on solaris 10 ld.so.1 lives in /lib (that is 32bit). there
> are two symbolic links in /usr/lib and in /etc/lib/ that point to that
> original file in /lib.
>
> can you post the exact error messages that you get when booting ?
I will try.
>
> greetings,
>
> Stoyan
>
>
>
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