disaster recovery: I can't login

[Mel]

On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:08:36 Dino Vliet wrote:
>    Hi folks,
>    Yesterday disaster struck after I wanted to remove Gnome and issued
>    the following command:
> pkg_deinstall -R x11/gnome* -x evolution
> I went to sleep and when I woke up I rebooted and got the login
> screen iso my normal graphical GDM. I logged in as I normally do
>  and thought I was logged in because I saw a line saying I had
> mail, but then the line below that one said:
> /usr/local/bin/bash was not found.
> As root I coudn't login as well, so I sat a while looking at my
> screen and looking for options.

And at this point, you should reboot the machine in single user mode. You can 
then pick /bin/sh as the shell.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.