recovery from terminated make installworld?

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 20:41:43 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > I was in the single user mode doing 'make installworld'
> > when the system froze and I had to cold reboot.
> > Now in single user mode I get to:
> >
> > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
> > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
> > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> >
> > Is there a way to recover?
> > Or do I have to reinstall from scratch?
>
> Try /rescue/sh (or tcsh).  It's all statically linked, so you should be
> able
> to recover from there.
>
> And if that doesn't work, try a LiveFS CD.

And, if all else fails, you can do a minimal install overtop.  You'll lose
all your /etc settings, but will get a bootable system again.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com


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